Allied Menace: Islamists, Marxists, and the Radical Left Make Common Cause

National Review magazine ^ | July 14, '08 | Daniel Pipes

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Hugo Chavez visiting Tehran celebrated his alliance with Akmadinejad. Che Guevara's son Camillo visited Tehran last year. Fidel Castro was there and told his hosts that "Iran and Cuba, in cooperation with each other, can bring America to its knees." It's not just Latin American leftists who see potential in Islamism. There is Ken Livingstone, the Trotskyist mayor of London. Dennis Kucinich, during his first presidential campaign in 2004, quoted the Koran and roused a Muslim audience to chant Allahu akbar ("God is great") and he even announced, "I keep a copy of the Koran in my office." And there are many others in Europe and America. Some leftists (H. Rap Brown, Carlos the Jackel, Yvonne Ridley, etc.) have actually converted to Islam. Others respond with exhilaration to the violence and brutality of Islamism. Communists and leftists are atheists and secular; Islamists execute atheists and enforce religious law. One dreams of a worker's paradise, the other of a caliphate; Marxism implies gender equality, Islamism oppresses women. Leftists despise slavery; some Islamists endorse it. Why then the alliance?

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And they’ll look EVERYWHERE — except in a church, of course.