[cripplecreek]

Most interesting is the fact that this doesn't appear to be generating much interest from American media.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Of course not. There's no threat here. At least there wasn't until someone took away Schumer's security money.

[jigsaw]

Most interesting is the fact that this doesn't appear to be generating much interest from American media.

The hate-America stance of the American media is no doubt partially responsible radicalizing dumb, impressionable twits like those who've been arrested.

[angkor]

"Most interesting is the fact that this doesn't appear to be generating much interest from American media."

Although brief, Fox News ran it as a lead news story this morning.

The story above is the most detailed I've seen so far.

[GMMAC]

"Most interesting is the fact that this doesn't appear to be generating much interest from American media."

Canadian FReepers vs. CNN:
'THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN'

[expatguy]

bears repeating

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Goes against their Agenda......

There is a book,:

Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)

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And a review:

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Communism is dead. Long live Islam!, September 30, 2004

Reviewer:

Kevin Beckman (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

It sounds absurd: why would Leftists make common cause with a religion that is diametrically opposed to everything the Left stands for? David Horowitz explains that it is really quite logical given the Left's first principle: America is evil and anything or anyone opposed to America is good.

Part I of the book is a brief history of 9/11 through the end of major combat operations in Iraq, and the Left's behavior during this time. Horowitz includes the reaction of Katha Pollitt of The Nation magazine: "The flag stands for vengeance, and jingoism, and war." Anthropology Professor Nicholas De Genova of Columbia University said he hoped for "a million Mogadishus." His colleagues objected, not to the despicable sentiment, but because of the bad publicity it brought their "teach-in." Our tax dollars at work!

Part II is the heart of the book: a history of the American and international Left. Horowitz calls them Neo-Communists or Neocoms. The Neocoms of old believed in the Soviet Union the way religious people believe in God. Those who spied for the USSR didn't see themselves as traitors to their country, but rather loyalists to humanity and an ideal of America that's never existed. When the Soviet Union fell, a few of them stopped for some introspection but most pressed on as if nothing happened. Communist historian Eric Hobsbawm put it nicely: "Without the Revolution, my life and my work are meaningless."

Now that they no longer have to defend an indefensible regime, modern Neocoms are simply nihilists. They know what they oppose but they have no plans for the aftermath of the revolution which they still believe will happen. They don't know what they want, but they know what they hate: the United States, capitalism personified.

So why are they allying with radical Islam? Horowitz says that the Neocoms still believe in Marx's dictum that "religion is the opiate of the masses." Once private property is abolished, the need for religion will vanish, and Islamic radicals will stop being Islamic and radical. The only thing standing in the way is the United States.

Sound insane? It is. They are. I highly recommend this book. Horowitz makes the insanity understandable.