The Peculiar Progressive-Islamist Alliance, by Philip
Salzman, 4/219.
After Congresswomen Ilham Omar’s and
Rashida Tlaib’s incendiary anti-Semitic rants directed at Jewish Americans and
American ally Israel, the Democrat House “progressive caucus,” led by Alexandra
Ocasio-Cortez, rallied around to protect and support them.
The progressive media chimed in,
supporting the Islamist congresswomen. Even after Rep. Omar dismissed the 9/11 attacks as “someone did
something,” Democrat progressives defended her, accusing the president of
religious bigotry when he objected.
Not to be outdone, the ever more
progressive and pro-Islamist New York Times published a political cartoon that even they
admit is anti-Semitic, as well as an article claiming that Jesus was a Palestinian,
which was applauded by Ilhan Omar!
The anti-Semitic congresswomen and media
were right in tune with the powerful “Women’s March” leaders,
who allied with notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of
Islam, calling him “The greatest of all times.”
Progressive leftists, who wish to
bring socialism to America, and Islamists, who wish to bring Sharia law to
America, are strange bedfellows indeed. Despite opposite political
philosophies, they have found common cause in anti-Semitism.
Progressive leftists range from
moderate progressives through social democrats to democratic socialists, to
socialists and communists. All aim to perfect society, to bring it closer to
perfection, by reform or by revolution. The farther left one goes, the farther
from liberal democracy and the more totalitarian the governance.
The historical examples of European
laborites, socialists, and communists, and of Soviet, Chinese, Cambodian,
Cuban, and Venezuelan communist regimes, provide very clear guidelines as to
what to expect, which is one hundred million individuals of unfavored classes
and opinions murdered in the name of the “people.”
Progressive leftists all pursue the
goal of advancing absolute equality of results, everyone to end up with the
same level of assets, even at the expense of freedom, prosperity, democracy,
and human rights. This utopian goal has been proven illusory, not least by the
special benefits enjoyed by the ruling class and their enforcers.
The German National Socialists were also
leftist utopians, although their vision of perfection was race purity rather
than economic equality. Fascism is, after all, just another form of leftist
collectivization.
For the Nazis too, their utopian goal
justified an increasingly totalitarian dictatorship as well as the
“elimination” of tens of millions of “unsuitable” citizens.
The Nazis and Communists were kissing
cousins, until expediency led to conflict, just as the communists, socialists,
anarchists, and Democrats fought each other during the Spanish Civil War,
although they were supposed to be fighting the fascists.
Islamists, in contrast to leftists, are
paradigmatic traditionalists who follow religious texts from the 7th century.
The Muslim idea of the perfect society is society as it was during the life of their
beloved prophet Mohammed.
For Muslims, perfecting our society is
to reproduce in America and around the world the life of 7th-century Mecca.
Their guidelines are very clear, set out in Islamic Sharia law. The Islamist
approach is set out in the motto of the most powerful and pervasive
Islamist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood:
“Allah is our objective; the Prophet is
our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah
is our highest hope."
We do not have to speculate what this
means, because we can consult the history of Islamic expansionism, imperialism, and colonialism over fourteen centuries. The
contemporary version is the Islamic State, with its extraordinary expansion and
brutality.
The Western right and far right, like
the Islamists, are traditionalists and want to protect and live in their
civilization. Eastern Europeans want to live, as in the past, in Catholic and
Orthodox Christian societies; American far-rightists want to live, as in the
past, in a white, Protestant Christian society.
In both cases, traditionalist Jews are
despised for having murdered Jesus, and for insisting on maintaining their
pre-Christian culture. As with the utopian left, the traditionalist right
becomes increasingly totalitarian as the purity and strength of vision
increases.
Islamists see the world divided between
Muslims and infidels, and in conflict as Islamic supremacists follow their duty
to bring the entire world under Allah. The left sees the world in terms of
class conflict: capitalists oppressing workers; males oppressing females;
whites oppressing people of color; heterosexuals oppressing LGBTs; Christians
and Jews oppressing Muslims. The Islamist war against Christians, Jews, Hindus,
and all infidels is ignored by progressives.
The left champions females, people of
color, and LGBTs, while Islamists despise females and mandate their control by
males, have for centuries enslaved black Africans, and execute LGBTs, facts
systematically ignored by feminists, LGBT activists, and other leftists.
Progressives dislike Jews, as they did
in the USSR, because Jews are the carriers of a traditional culture, and
traditional cultures must be snuffed out to make way for socialist values and
laws. Islamists and Muslims generally hate Jews because their holy books, the
Quran, the Traditions, and the commentaries, tell them that Jews are enemies of Allah, of
Islam, and of Muslims, and are low, deceitful, evil people — views that
are repeated around
the world by Mosque imams in holy sermons.
The progressive left hates Israel
because leftists claim that Israel is a colonial settler society, a white
society oppressing people of color, an apartheid society.
Facts are not of interest to the left;
vilifying slogans are self-verifying. The unwelcome reality is that Jews have
returned to the Holy Land which they occupied prior to the Roman invasion, as
we know well from Roman accounts.
What metropolis is it supposed to be a
colony of? Half of the population of Israel are Arabic-speaking Jews from
Middle Eastern countries, plus Ethiopians, plus millions of Muslim Arabs;
Israel is not white, but the most multi-racial country in the world. And it
would be an apartheid society if Muslim Arabs did not have full legal rights,
and were not integrated into every sector of society, up to and including the
Supreme Court.
Israel is a remarkably successful
nation, but nations are the enemy of international socialism, so the progressive
left hates it. And the left deems Palestinians to be victims, not of their
corrupt leadership or fanatical terrorism, but of selfish Israelis who prefer
not to submit to death by Arabs.
Muslims around the world hate Israel
because of the Jews. For fourteen centuries Muslims have conquered lands
occupied by Jews, and treated them as dhimma, fourth-class subjects who had to pay a
tax not to be murdered, who were obliged to be ritually humiliated according to
Sharia law, and who suffered endless depredations.
Jews were deemed the lowest, weakest,
and most corrupt people in the world. The Muslim establishment took the view
that the existence of Israel on land once controlled by Muslims was a violation
of the law of religious endowment, which claimed that land once occupied by Muslims
was Muslim land for all time.
If that were not enough, Israeli Jews
have repeatedly shamed the Arab warriors by besting them in defensive wars
against invading Arab armies. For Muslims, this is a dishonor. It is the world turned upside down.
The unholy marriage of the progressive
left and far right Islamists is seen nowhere clearer than on university
campuses, where the anti-Semitism of the leftist Students for the Liberation of
Palestine and the Muslim Students Society encompasses both Jews and Zionists,
examples here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Today, on campuses, Jewish students and
professors, those who do not support anti-Semitic initiatives, are under attack
from progressives and Islamists. Hating Jews is the glue that holds together
the progressive—Islamist (or red—green) alliance, which now shares anti-Semitic
attitudes with far-right racists and neo-nazis. This is what they call “social
justice.”
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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