[knighthawk]

Ping

[relictele]

Fair question and glad it's being asked.

I always want to ask Bush-haters and terrorist sympathizers if they realize that Sharia law would look a lot like the Holocaust with homosexuals carted away first.

[Mazda3Fan]

I think they like to think they are standing up for the underdog. They like to rally around the groups they consider to be the downtrodden. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

WHY is it, asks British journalist Nick Cohen, that apologies for a militant Islam, which stands for everything the liberal Left is against, come from the liberal Left?

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend". For the Left, the only true enemy is the West and it's values.

[FreedomPoster]

Bravo. I would not expect this sort of self-analysis to cross the pond, though.

[Ditto]

"A principled Left that still had life in it and a liberalism that meant what it said might have remained ferociously critical of the American and British (and I could add, Australian) governments while offering support to Iraqis who wanted the freedoms they enjoyed," he said.

Two myths in one sentence.

Myth #1. There never was such a thing as a "Principled Left". The left simply attached itself to causes that it felt could advance it's quest for power. It was never involved for the sake of the cause itself but only as a means to elevate it's image and/or to hopefully bring about revolution. The left has always been the most cynical faction in society be it whitewashing Lenin and Stalin's atrocities or being militantly anti-War to support the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 then suddenly and without the slightest blush jumping to pro-war when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.

Myth #2. Confusing the "Left" with Liberalism. They are if anything, at opposite ends of the spectrum and in reality, the only 'liberals' left in the Western world are today called neo-Conservatives and totally derided by the left.

Why does the left support militant Islam? Because militant Islam has the same objective that the left does --- the destruction of Western civilization.

[Gritty]

[RaymondLuxuryYacht]

They all work for the same boss.

[motorola7]

Why? Because liberalism is a disease.

[91B]

There is an old saying that a liberal is a man who won't even take his own side in a fight. Their minds are so open that their brains have fallen out.