[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is a book (now available in paperback ):

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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
(Hardcover)
by David Horowitz

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And reviews:

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Editorial Reviews

Rich Lowry, Editor National Review

David Horowitz is synonymous with pyrotechnics. A historian and polemicist of the first order, he is paid the ultimate compliment --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Davis Hanson, Author, Ripples of Battle

An original look at those who want us to fail in the Middle East, both at home and abroad. The --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Fascinating Analysis of Leftist Goals, August 13, 2006

Reviewer: N. Sincerity - See all my reviews

A former 1960s radical, Horowitz is well-acquainted with the Leftist mindset. In this book, he strives to explain the modern alliance between left wing progressivists and radical Islamofascists. He argues that this alliance is based on a common desire to destroy Western capitalism. Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today. However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world. A West under attack can be made to turn on its leaders in fear and desperation (as they did in Spain after the Madrid train bombings). Only once people reject current government structures can the Left execute its anti-capitalist revolution and build a new reality that mirrors the Leftist view of utopia. The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us, Leftists radicals truly believe the ends justify the means.

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[unionblue83]

Robert Spencer has done invaluable work to expose Islam and its views towards women as well as everything else. His The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam... and The Truth About Mohammed are both well worth the reading.

[kosta50]

I agree with you to an extent, but let's not forget that it was the Right that energized the Taliban in a sort-sighted and opportunistic crusade to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. It was the right that gave Turkey the green light to rape Cyprus for equally short-sighted narrow-minded reasons, that it was both the Right and the Left that gave their support to the Islamic elements in Bosnia and Kosovo, and that neither the Left nor the Right have done anything to stop the massacre of Christians in the Sudan.

Let's not forget that at one time Rummy and Saddam were allies on the same playing field when it was in our interest to stop Iran (at that time it didn't disturb us that Saddam was a cruel dictator, just as it didn't distrub us that our bastard child, the Taliban, were cruel and abusive to women until 9/11). And let's not forget the biggest contributor to the Paletistian cause: our friend and ally Saudi Arabia, a medieval kingdom both the Right and the Left love so much (after all, without it, the American people could not enjoy their gas-guzzling SUVs, and, regardless if you are Left or Right, when it comes to cheap gas we tend to forget everything that offends us about Islam).

So we all know what we are, on the left or on the right; we are just arguing over the price [of gas].