At Jihad Watch yesterday Robert Spencer has posted a piece by Chuck Hustmyre in which Mr. Hustmyre attempts to explain something that has puzzled me ever since I saw it first hand in Washington, DC in March 2007 when International ANSWER’s demonstration was sponsored by the Muslim America Society. I don’t understand why Far Leftwingers and Communists like the ANSWER coalition work in tandem with radical Islamists who truly hate the lifestyles of Leftists.
Here is a bit of what Mr. Hustmyre says:
Consistent with the Arabic proverb that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the American Left has formed an alliance with fundamentalist Islam to transform this country into something far removed from its Judeo-Christian origins and ideals.
The mistake the Left is making is that its so-called progressive goals have nothing in common with the medieval tenants of fundamentalist Islam. Militant Muslims have no respect for American progressives, any more than they respect the very existence of Israel.
Fundamentalist Islam is using the American Left to advance its own agenda. Militant Muslims want Islam and sharia law to dominate the West. Their goal is to subvert the U.S. Constitution and our way of life to the will of Allah. The word Islam means submission.
What members of the American Left seem blind to is the fact that in countries where Islam dominates, their progressive ideas would be crushed and many of them would be thrown in jail simply because of their lifestyle choices.
Yet, the American Left continues to serve as apologist-in-chief for fundamentalist Islam.
Why?
Because deep down American Leftists are terrified of Islamic fundamentalists.
I agree with a lot of what Mr. Hustmyre says, especially the part about the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend,’ but commenter Natalie, I think, comes closer to my view and one I have expressed on our pages previously (especially relating to SEIU organizing Somalis).
I disagree with the article. I don’t think it’s a love-fear relationship at all. Both sides are using each other to advance their own individual agendas and think that once they’re in power, they’ll be able to eliminate the other. I don’t think the Left fears Islam at all–they are very arrogant and overly confident and think that they can handle the Islamists who would actually love to see them dead.
If, God forbid, the Radical Left and the “Fundamentalist Muslims” should win, I have predicted that the first to be eliminated will be the Leftists (oh, maybe Jews first, then Leftists)—the Islamists will eat them alive.