Frankly, I think it's clearly overhead to suggest that Islamists are the newest incarnation of Communists. Communists are against any religion while Islamists always start "In the name of Allah...".
Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qai'da, etc. are certainly religiously motivated and they take inspiration from 1400 Jihad waged by Islam on the non-Muslim world.
Certainly, at one point or the other Communists and Islamists had common interests. A number of the Western Leftists who hate the Western Civilization are supportive of Islamists. Nevertheless, Islamists are Islamists and they have a clearly distinct ideology from the Communist one.
"Frankly, I think it's clearly overhead to suggest that Islamists are the newest incarnation of Communists."
The Communists use Islamofascism to forward their marxist agenda. Neither ideology can win as long as their is individual liberty and freedom. It scares the bejeezus out of them.
That's why we have to defeat Americas left at every turn.