So is he a Communist or a Muslim? I think it may be hard to be both.
I heard somewhere that when Carlos the Jackal finally got caught, he said that the only way to destroy the US would be thru an alliance of Communism and Islam.
Now here we have it, in the flesh.
Don't buy anything on credit.
While it may seem oxymoronic on the surface, the two systems are not entirely incompatible, especially when those on both sides are willing to make compromises to improve their own lot. One could just as easily make the assertion that one could not be both a Communist and a Christian, but throughout the third world there are legions of those who consider themselves 'Christians' but the brand of liberation theology they've been sold is nothing more than marxism with the distorted veneer of Christinity.
In many of the former Soviet 'stans islam was sold in a similar way and many considered themselves both.
There's a really good discussion on the interplay between communism and islam in KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin's book, The world was going our way: the KGB and the battle for the Third World.
As long as they have mutual goals, such as destroying everything that is America -- from Christianity -- which the Communist think of as an opiate of the masses (or as Obama put it at the fundraiser in SF in '07 or '08 -- "they cling to their guns and their Bibles") or Islam which detests Christianity and Judaism to financial (Capitalism). The Communists and the Muslims do have a similiar goal up to a point.
There is historical precedent for this. Remember, the Muslims aided and abetted with the Nazis. They, too, had a common goal...to a point.
Off topic: here's an interesting website: http://aidandabet.org/events/
Oh I don't know, his father, his stepfather and his cousin Odinga were all communist moslems. There must be millions of them.