PrintOctober 15, 2007
Holy War and Anti War: An Axis against Nature
The oddest of all factional relationships is the open alliance between the Jihadists and the so-called "antiwar" neo-Left movement in the West. The jumble of causes thrown together is mind-bending: globalization hobnobs with the caliphate, class struggle with Wahabism, proletariat with infidels, and North Korea with Palestine.While still shedding each others' blood, the Reds (neo-Left) and the Dark Greens (Islamists) are conducting a joint offensive against both democracy-pushing America and the democracy-craving Middle East. They are not letting old or new grudges get in their way.The Wahabis fiercely fought the Soviet Communists in Afghanistan; the Muslim Brotherhood and the Marxists have been at each other's throats for decades; the Salafists butchered left-wing intellectuals in Algeria and assassinated progressive bureaucrats in central Asia after the Soviet collapse; the Taliban killed socialists and shut down art institutions; the Khumeinist regime in Iran...(Read Full Article)
