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.
One thing the mideast needs is a healthy dose of liberalism. It would certainly take the fight out of them.
Followed by atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and Hindus. Then musicians, actors, pornography stars, alcohol producers, narcotics users, most teachers and professors, comedians, many writers, ETC ETC ETC.
The lunatic left would rather go extinct than find itself on the right side for once. A hippy socialist feels more threatened by Jerry Falwell than by OBL. It isn't hyperbole - I know some people very well who hold these sentiments (and I unfortunately also know people who feel more threatened by two gays having bumsex than by militant Islam).
The Left views all its current allies as transient. It is acceptable to throw someone to the wolves if they stand between you and power. To the Left, it has always been about POWER--not principles. Right now they are throwing (or have thrown) the Jews overboard--except most Jews haven't realized it yet.
Give it another three decades, and they will have thrown the gay and women's rights groups overboard too. In fact, you will be hear that wearing a burka is the ultimate in woman's liberation, because it separates the woman from her sexuality. Its the old Slavery=Freedom ploy. The Womans Studies Departments on campus are busy rewriting their doctrine as I type--count on it. It may take them a tad longer to jettison the gays, because they are SO DARN USEFUL in destroying organized religion, long held morals, and keeping the non-Muslim population down.
But why do all this for the Muslims? Four things are at work here:
1. The Left sees the Right Wing as more of a threat to their power than the Islamists (who probably vote for Leftist candidates anyway). The Right is closer and more numerous--therefore, they are the greater threat. Of course, the Right doesn't behead anyone, but that doesn't enter into their equation.
2. The Islamists are not evil Westerners, therefore, their motives are pure. Ever notice how Muslims are described in the MSM as "devout" while evangelic Christians are labeled "fanatical"?
3. The Left admires the fact that Mullahs have almost total control over their adherents. This is something they have been striving for for decades. After all, if you can convince someone to blow themselves up, getting them to pay higher taxes should be a piece of cake.
4. Lastly, the Left are cowards. They know they can spit on Christians and Jews with impunity. However, mock a Muslim, and people will riot and things get blown up. Its ironic--they continually accuse the Right of trying to censor free speech. Yet the Left advocates censorship whenever Muslim sensibilities are involved.
"...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."
The people who oppose this fight the most would be the first to fall, but you can never seem to get that through to them. When I posed to a very liberal neighbor of mine the question of what the problems that the presidents of Iran and North Korea pose, and to a lesser degree the president of Venezuela, all I get is these gems:
"They keep Bush in check"
"Do what the ISG told them to do and let Iran and Syria reshape Iraq"
"Korea needs to be unified and SOUTH Korea needs to stop resisting this" (emphasis mine)
It's hatred, sickness, or both, and they still benefit by others who keep the fight up.