Liberal/Left and Islam are ideological allies
Reader comment on item: Media Analysts Dodge Jihad Connection in Boston, London

Submitted by Edward Cline, May 24, 2013 20:52

The reason why the liberal/left will not acknowledge that Islam is at the root of these terrorist attacks is that there is an unspoken, almost Freudian symbiosis felt by the liberal/left with Islam, that is, a grudging empathy for another totalitarian system. The Progressive Movement, spawned in the late 19^th century, made great strides in the 20^th with the steady passage of laws that increasingly robbed men of their freedom from arbitrary, fiat law and regulation, until today when there is hardly a human action or product that is not regulated or constrained. This covers a range of law from the Income Tax Amendment to mandated nutritional information on food packaging and countless measures in between.

The Progressives – aka socialists – see Islam, with its head-to-foot regulation of Muslim behavior and existence, as a friend and ally that will help to vanquish capitalism and Western civilization. That is their mutual end. "Moderate" Muslims such as Zuhdi Jasser believe Western precepts of law and freedom can be reconciled with Islam. This is delusional. They cannot. If Islam is doctrinally a totalitarian ideology, it cannot and will not be reconciled with individual rights. Capitalism and freedom do not sanction or advocate the forcible conquest of socialists and collectivists, unless the latter initiate force against the former. Islam and Progressivism do sanction and advocate the initiation of force.

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