It’s simple. They share a common hatred: Christians.
As far as the leftists, I think it’s an underlying desire for self flagellation.
EXACTLLY!
Yes, that’s the key. They also share a similar hatred for Israel, but I think the hatred for Christians is stronger with the Lefties.
Furthermore, the Left is foolish enough to think that they can control the Muslims, and stop the Muslims from turning on them when the time comes. Just like liberals thought they could support the Communists, and the Commies would spare them when they came to power. Just like the liberals think they can encourage black lawlessness in America, and the black criminals won’t ravage the liberals out of gratitude or something. They just prefer their fantasies to the realities which are obvious to everyone else.
Yes, that common hatred is Christians and America. The left is trying to break down freedom of speech to ban their political and social enemies as they have done in Europe and Canada.
Islam’s threat of violence for anti-Mohammad speech gives them the doorway. If they can legally claim that speech they don’t like is like calling fire in a crowded theater - dangerous -then they can move on from there.
That is what the video lie in the aftermath of the murders in Libya was about - using Islamic terrorism as an excuse to ban free speech.