I'm not so sure the Left misunderstands islam. Maybe they do understand it, and they applaud in it the things they condemn in the groups they oppose. Maybe they actually believe in some sort of Manichaean principal where there are "evil people" (the ultimate example being the "rednecks") and "good people" (groups with "otherness"). Maybe they actually believe that all acts of the evil are evil, and those same acts by the "good" are good simply because of who does them.
But this raises another question which I've asked a blue zillion times. Why is the Western Left so different from its non-Western confreres? The Western Left practices self-hatred and deification of "the other." The non-Western Left does not hate itself or idealize "the other" . . . it idealizes itself. If whites who hate their "white privilege" are left wing whites, then an example of a left wing Black should be someone who criticizes Black behavior like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams or James Meredith. And likewise if white racialists like Sam Francis, Jared Taylor, and V-Dare are "right wing," then logically the NOI, the Black Panthers, and the "palestinians" should be so regarded as well.
But we never see this. We see self-flagellating hippies apologizing for goose-stepping fascist soldiers in North Korea while accusing their own western militaries of "fascism."
I hope someone explains it to me one day.
Greenfield exposes the extreme naivety of progressivism. Adherents of liberalism claim everyone other than their special selves is stupid. In fact it is they who are stupid. Liberalism does not engage in rational thought. It is not built upon intellectual discipline.
That their espoused world-view has no basis or foundation for 'good' or 'evil', or purpose or even rationality itself demonstrates that their presuppositions are fundamentally irrational and incoherent. That they can be found to be instinctively acting as if there really is good and evil, or reasoning (distorted as it may be at times) even though they cannot account for morality or rationality from their own world-view is evidence that in reality they are made in the image of God. By nature, they do know the truth but do not want to acknowledge God as Creator. Romans 1.
Cordially,