Posted on 05/20/2007 6:14:53 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
“Where else can you sit down in a single evening and listen to senior people from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, people from the revolutionary left and the antiwar movement from around the globe?”
— British Trotskyite John Rees at the Cairo Anti-War Conference, April 2007
Over the past year, multiple international conferences have featured leaders of the anti-global left and Islamist groups working together. Go to any anti-war or anti-globalization demonstration in the West and chances are you will see the flags of Hezbollah and Hamas waved by people wearing Che Guevara T-shirts. And at some of these meetings, members of such radical Islamist groups as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah have enjoyed starring roles.
The roster of Islamist-left alliances quietly grows every day: Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor Noam Chomsky praises Hamas and denounces America on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television. London Mayor Ken Livingstone invites a leading Islamist, Sheikh Yosef Al-Qaradawi, who is known for supporting suicide attacks, to visit his city. Iranian President Ahmadinejad calls for a world without America even as he plays host to a Tehran peace conference attended by American Mennonites, Quakers, Episcopalians, Methodists, and leaders of the National Council of Churches.
The key forum at this year’s annual Cairo Anti-War Conference was titled “Bridge-building Between the Left and Islam,” and focused on practical ways to increase cooperation. The aim of the conference sessions were described in one piece of literature as tackling “the challenges and prospects facing the international anti-war and pro-intifada movements” and planning “strategy and tactics for bridging the gap and uniting Islamist and leftist ranks in the face of U.S. imperialism and Zionism.”
The Arabic press has lauded this phenomenon. An article in Egypt’s Al-Ahram Weekly praises what it refers to as “Arab activists taking the lead in the growing anti-war movement worldwide.”
Some Islamist issues on which the anti-global left appears to have found common ground are countering the international boycott of Hamas, calling for the boycott of Israel, supporting Iran against the threat of a U.S. attack (as well as supporting its “right” to develop nuclear weapons), supporting avowedly anti-American countries such as Cuba and Venezuela, and, above all, opposing the war in Iraq.
Many leftist blogs and Web sites monitored by MEMRI have been increasingly open to working with Islamist groups on the goals they both share — most notably the desire for America to leave Iraq. British Trotskyite John Rees, a regular at the Cairo conference since it started in 2002, told Al-Ahram in April that at this year’s gathering he had discussed in particular the “ongoing dynamic between the anti-war movement and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.” Mr. Rees also believes that the Islamist-Left coalition is gaining strength, while what is known as the “coalition of the willing” has faltered.
In addition, MEMRI researchers monitoring jihadi Web sites have recently found Islamists trying to influence American anti-war efforts. On the Islamist Al-Mohajroon Web site, someone with the username Al-Wathiq Billah instructs readers on how to infiltrate popular American Internet forums to distribute jihadist films and spread disinformation about the war.
“There is no doubt, my brothers, that raiding American forums is among the most important means of obtaining victory in the fierce media war ... and of influencing the views of the weak-minded American who pays his taxes so they will go to the infidel American army. This American is an idiot and does not know where Iraq is ... Every electronic mujahid” must engage in this raiding, Mr. Billah writes.
Mr. Billah advises his jihadist readers to “register yourself using a purely American name” and to “invent stories about American soldiers you have personally known (as classmates... or members in a club who played baseball and tennis with you) who were drafted to Iraq and then committed suicide while in service by hanging or shooting themselves.” The writing should, he says, provoke “frustration and anger towards their government, which will ... render them hostile to Bush ... and his Republican Party, and make them feel they must vote to bring the troops back from Iraq as soon as possible.”
Such an emerging alliance can only be expected to play a negative role in the ongoing war on terror.
holy crap. Noam Chomsky teaches at MIT? I’m glad I didn’t go.
Nancy Pelosi's living room or is it Steny Hoyer's?
Finally. I’ve been crowing about the leftist-jihadist alliance for some time now, since David Horowitz’ book “Unholy Alliance” came out. Both have totalitarian control as a goal. Both work for the destruction of Western Civilization. Both hate Christians. Neither one has any principles. Both are ruthless and are willing to do anything to achieve the goal. No surprise that they are working together.
Both have totalitarian control as a goal. Both work for the destruction of Western Civilization. Both hate Christians. Neither one has any principles. Both are ruthless and are willing to do anything to achieve the goal. No surprise that they are working together.
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Too bad the general public is oblivious to these facts....it is why it is so important to keep a Marxist out of the WH.
In the years leading up to World War II, the Soviet Union and Germany appeared to be getting along famously. In fact, such dealings led to the partion of Eastern Europe in 1939 between the two.
However, neither country was truly concerned with true cooperation. Both had the ultimate aim of laying the other low--two totalitarian forces which were in a marriage of convenience.
The same thing is happening here. I do think, however, the Left is on the losing end of the alliance. And, ultimately, (much like the leftists in WWII), a clamor will be raised in the MSM to enter into battle against Muslims at the cost of blood and treasure by folks who had no belief in the totalitarian goals of the Left or the Muslims.
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Gee, I wonder what the caliphate will do with drug users, gays, transgenders, communist idealogues and eco-freaks when they come into power?
I am amazed the American left does not see this.
The grip of Bush Derangement Syndrome is so strong that lefties can't help but have a twinkle in their eye for anybody else that shares their hatred. The fact that their Islamist brethren want them dead just as much as the want Bush dead doesn't concern them. This is not about policy, or ideology. It is about a mutual hatred, nothing else.
Horowitz addresses this in "Unholy Alliance." By the whacked logic of the left, the US alone stands in the way of world socialism. It is therefore moral to defeat the US, and by extension to help the muzzies do so. As for the caliphate the far left believes the muzzies will embrace world socialism rather than execute the perverts. Yeah, nuts.
It's contagious. I must confess to a touch of it myself on learning of the comprehensive immigration plan he agreed to with Fat Ted.
I’ve noticed the jihadists have been using quasi-socialist/Marxist rhetoric. The bad guys know what they are doing.
I'd say they should help save the US simply because it will be better for their children (their favorite ploy to implement socialism). But then I immediately realized children really don't mean anything to them, only their agenda. Add the fact that they abort their children anyway, and it doesn't matter what happens in the future to them.
So I guess, in their twisted way, they win by losing their heads to the muzzies.
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