Following up on Ann’s post yesterday with some additional material: David Horowitz’s Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left , written a couple of years ago, explains the leftist-Islamist alliance in detail. Jamie Glazov’s United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny and Terror is more recent. Glazov is the editor of FrontPage Magazine.
Both of these authors have a deep knowledge of the left. Horowitz grew up in a Communist family and was a major figure on the American left. His book, Radical Son, explains his change of heart. As an ex-leftist, Horowitz is especially good at describing the mentality of the left, and its history in America. Jamie Glazov is the son of a Soviet dissident. His family moved to Canada when he was 9, but he is steeped in a knowledge and understanding of totalitarianism and its mentality.