hypocritexposer
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Ask those on the left what values they champion and they will say equality, tolerance, women’s rights, gay rights, workers rights and human rights. Militant Islamists oppose all that, not infrequently through the application of lethal force. So how does one explain the burgeoning left-Islamist alliance?
I know: There are principled individuals on the left who do not condone terrorism or minimize the Islamist threat. The author Paul Berman, a man of the left, has been more incisive on these issues than just about anyone else. Left-of-center publications such as The New Republic have not been apologists for Jihadism.
But it is no exaggeration to say The Nation magazine and such groups as MoveOn.org are pro-appeasement. Further left on the political spectrum, the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition sympathizes with Islamists as well as with the Stalinist regime in North Korea.
In a new book, “United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror,” Jamie Glazov takes a hard look at this unholy alliance. Glazov’s book indicts left artists and intellectuals for having “venerated mass murderers such as Lenin, Stalin and Mao, Castro, and Ho Chi Minh, habitually excusing their atrocities while blaming Americans and even the victims for their crimes.”
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/apr/16/why-the-left-is-enamored-with-militant-islamists/