Posted on 08/26/2005 3:53:27 PM PDT by Thanatos
It’s Official: Leftist-Islamist Alliance against the West
August 22nd, 2005
So the hard left and the Islamists have established a coordinating committee, according to Douglas Davis of the London Spectator. In Britain
the steering committee of the Marxist–Islamist alliance consists of 33 members — 18 from myriad hard-Left groups, three from the radical wing of the Labour party, eight from the ranks of the radical Islamists and four leftist ecologists (also known as ‘Watermelons’ —green outside, red inside). The chairman is Andrew Murray, a leading light in the British Communist party; co-chair is Muhammad Aslam Ijaz, of the London Council of Mosques.
In other words, the war on terror is to be a continuation of the old war, the war between capitalism and its various discontents that was waged throughout most of the twentieth century. Norman Podhoretz is right. This is World War IV.
But few people want to admit it. Ever since the Enlightenment people have believed that war would soon become the aberration and peaceful cooperation the norm. Even though the Enlightenment culminated in the warlike and unpeaceful French Revolution, this idea seems to be dying a very slow death. And it is not just utopian socialists that believe in it. Conservatives, ancient and modern, believe in the power of the rule of law and right reason to corral the Bull of Heaven, and the left still believes in the revolution that will end all oppression and usher in an age of peace and justice. Surely, war is going out and peace is coming in.
That was what people thought at the turn of the twentieth century in the run-up to World War I, and again in the 1930s during the appeasement of Hitler’s Germany. They believed it even as the titanic struggle between capitalism and communism that we call the Cold War raged around them. And they believed it during the Islamist raids of the 1990s: the first World Trade Center bombing, the Khobar Towers bombing, the USS Cole bombing, the East African embassy bombings, and, for the conspiracy-minded, the Oklahoma City bombing and Flight 800. The “why do they hate us” crowd are still at it. We all need to believe in a rosy future purged of struggle and strife.
When Lee Harris interpreted the war against terror as a moment in the confict between the western “team” and the “eternal gang of ruthless men” in Civilization and its Enemies his argument seemed overdrawn, for it scorned the idea of perpetual peace and interpreted the human condition as an eternal conflict. But events support his analysis. The punctuations of the terrorists in exhibitionist bombings, the bombastic declarations of the Daily Kos that “we will be ruthless” against George W. Bush, the now formalized coalition between the hard left and the Islamicist raiders are sending us a message. The war against the western team continues.
The team concept goes all the way back to the Greek farmers, the hoplites who first fought as disciplined heavy infantry in shock battle. When combined with Alexander’s Companion heavy cavalry the team army routed the Persian Empire, and it has been just about unbeatable ever since. From time to time the eternal gang of ruthless men has succeeded in harnessing the western team to assist their ganglike predations, most notably when the Nazis used the German army, the team built up by Scharnhorst, Moltke, and Seekt, to lay waste to Europe. Fortunately the ruthless men fail to understand that the team army is but a part of the integrated western team concept. It is the relentless power of citified western teams measured against tribal gangs—in economic, political, religious, and cultural affairs—that provides the motive power for the world-beating western team army.
Our western media do not understand the importance of the team concept either. They have been raised to a faith in creativity and a belief in the transforming power of the creative artist to break the constricting bonds of narrow middle-class conformity. They love the rebellious outrages of the terrorist gangs because they are directed against the same object as their own rage, the western middle-class team.
Still, the formal coalition between the hard left and the Islamists is a shock. It is difficult to believe that the secular left could really find common cause with religious fundamentalists of any stripe. But we should remember our history. In World War I, progressive souls sympathized with the German effort to humble the capitalist nation of shopkeepers. In World War II, progressives were indifferent to the fate of the European democracies until Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. In World War III they actively cheered for the Soviets although they denied the right of anyone to complain about it.
It makes complete sense that the left’s first act in the twenty-first century should be to form a coalition with a new anti-western force. The war against democratic capitalism continues.
Christopher Chantrill (mailto:chrischantrill@msn.com) blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. Read about his forthcoming Road to the Middle Class here.
Christopher Chantrill
Welcome to Vietnam Syndrome 2.0.
I wonder if John Kerry is going to head on over and attend their equivalent of a Paris Peace Conference.
And I wonder how much of a hand China has in this.
bttt
No need to worry, it's the Communist Party. In 2 months the group will split into the Marxist-Islamic Alliance,the Alliance of Islamic Marxists, Islamic Alliance of Marxists and the Marxist-Islamic Alliance (Reformed Tendency).
"It’s Official: Leftist-Islamist Alliance against the West"
Stale news
And this is news?
Just ask Israel, where the left has been using the Islamic cults in the proxy war against Israel and US power for 25 years.
interesting...
bookmark
It's not news but it is a drum we must keep on beating until everyone knows the truth.
You're going to need an awfully big drum for that one!
Hey, Freddie. That big drum would be Free Republic!
True. Let's bang on it as loud as we can...
Muslim Labour peers and MPs against war
Jeevan Vasagar and Vikram Dodd
Thursday January 30, 2003
The Guardian
Every Labour Muslim MP and peer, including government loyalists, yesterday came out against war with Iraq.
The unprecedented move put the prime minister on collision course with the most senior elected representatives of Britain's 1.8 million Muslims.
Mohammed Sarwar, who was Britain's first Muslim MP, said that war against Iraq would inflame Muslim opinion. He urged peaceful change and warned: "The alternative ... is the immediate terrible misery of war, followed by the acceleration of the radicalisation of the Muslim population in the UK and around the world."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,885025,00.html
http://www.mcb.org.uk/e38.html
ONLY 1.8 MILLION MUZZIES AND THEY DARE TO THREATEN THE PM?
First, and most importantly, I claim dibs on the name Lord Mohammed Jones, MP (just creative liberty on my part). Secondly, who gives a f*ck if these pea brains are inflamed. They trample each other to death trying to stone the devil (who is Allah by the way). They get inflamed just buying a car or ordering a sandwich or sending their laundry out.
Cheese and crackers...stick a match to 'em and let 'em burn.
(It's Friday...yippee!)
No shock to me. Granted it took a while to "see" the connection, but it is very clear, and evidenced by the support the left has shown the Islamist maniacs.
I'm sure the indiscriminate actions of the homicide bombers, the cold-blooded murder of ANYONE in opposition, and the mass murders of Sadaam and sons bring back the wonderful visions of the heroes of the left: Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Fidel, et al, and make them long for a return to "the Good Ol' Days".
Additionally, they still look upon "Little Kim" as some type of hero and a hope for the future.
The Commies will never forgive us for winning the cold war and causing the splintering of the Soviet Union. They seek their revenge through these mindless minions of Islam, who are in turn being directed and sold out by their own Mullahs, Commie moles that have been waiting for the call to arms.
Notice how it's never the Mullah that explodes. The Red Menace lives and it attacks under the green flag of Muhammed.
You know, when you think about it, the American left might not even mind the muslim thing. If John Kerry were to convert (presuming Sharia is the law of the land), he can make Momma T wear a burka. In fact, he can take her wealth and give her the boot by saying three times "I divorce you, you gold digger."
And think of Teddy the K., he can finally have the harem he wants (just gotta switch from gin to khat).
"The Commies will never forgive us for winning the cold war and causing the splintering of the Soviet Union."
Because...after the dead were counted at 100 million and Stalin's regime was exposed, the ideology of Marxism the Left espoused as a religion stood in tatters before the world.
As my Marx-loving mother likes to say, 'it's not the system that is wrong, the wrong people were running the system; if Marixism was applied the way it was meant to be, we would all be living in a paradise on earth.'
Not even death, or the death of hundreds of millions can stop this insane utopian dream!
(The world owes a living MARX. The world belongs to us because allah said so, ISLAM)
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