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I think a lot of secularists have baggage about Christianity and Judiasm. Most of them came from a nominally Christian or Jewish background, and they have mostly rejected the religion of their parents or grandparents. So they instinctively rebel when they hear of a "public" mention of religion. They don't have such baggage with Islam, since they have never had to reject it. Also, they flatter themselves that they are good multiculturists when they pander to a minority like the Islamists and when they oppose traditional Judeo-Christian values.

The Islamists are against Western capitalism and technology -- since the fall of communism, where else can an anti-West intellectual look to but Islamo-fascism? Therefore, they will defend and promote radical Islam.

It is funny and also sad to see how the leftists have to compromise their own progressive values just to accomodate radical Islam. Here is where multiculturism comes to the rescue. Multiculturism is a clever trick that allows one to have double standards while putting on airs of having a superior morality. Multiculturism can be used to excuse anything. That is why women are "oppressed" in America if the government does not pay for abortions, but women who are executed in Saudi Arabia for being raped are not oppressed -- they are merely participating in a unique system of values that must be respected at all costs. Because all cultures and values are equal, who are we to judge?

I also think a lot of leftists hope that if the Jihadists win, they will cut them some slack rather than cutting their throats because the left sided with the Jihadists and made their victory possible.