At first I was amazed at the alliance between the Left and Islam. For the Left are atheist and Islam is theist. And when the jihad succeeds, they will turn on each other.
Until it rang a bell, and that bell was the Molotov-Ribintrop Pact. An unlikey pact between two violent, totalitarian States, that were soon at each other's throats.
And so the alliance between the Left and Islam is an alliance against a common enemy, liberal democracy, just as the Molotov-Ribintrop Pact was also an alliance of convenience against the common enemy of liberal democracy.
I am referring to the marxist, totalitarian Left.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 they know they have no chance of gaining State power alone, so they have allied themselves with the another totalitarian group who seek to replace liberal democracy with totalitarian Islam.
What the totalitarian Left and totalitarian Islam have in common is hatred of liberal democracy.
You put the first quote under my post and wrote the second one when Marmie explained to you that what she and I consider a left or liberal position has nothing to do with being an enemy of the West and a lot with actually practicing the (western!) value of tolerence and respect for cultural diversity, at least whithin reasonable limits.
What then were you trying to say? It was either a complete non sequitur (but then why quote by clicking the
reply button?) or it was a direct reply and therefor an insinuation (rather than an open statement) that this is what you assume I think. And that, I'm sorry, is blatently false.
There are more than three civilizations and there are more than two positions on this supposed war of civilizations you are so often referring to. There are very few marxists left in the world. I am most definitely not one of them. I have one or two marxist friends who can vouch for that
Basically, my position here is very close to Marmie's, so there is no need to repeat it
Instead I want to add one more thing about your claim about the radical left. While the radical left (that I do not consider myself a part of) in, say, France or Spain tends to side with the Palastinians against Israel (partially because the underpriviledged in the French and Spanish society are often of Arabic origin and they see it as a form of post colonialist struggle of rich vs poor) and therefor feels a certain solidarity with what they see as a cultural circle suffering from poverty and both inside and outside repression, much of that rooting in or fostered by the West and its history and pilicies, the radical left in Germany is more or less evenly split between those who share their Mediterranean friend's position that this is David vs Goliath and those who say that if you are on the left, you are anti-fascist and if you are anti-fascist you support Israel and if you support Israel, Islam is your enemy. So there is a considerable fraction in the German radical left that is very strongly and violently anti-Islam.
Just for your information.
I myself, both with the war of civilizations and with Palastine, refuse to clearly take sides because I see too many factors and too many shades of grey but strongly resent anybody trying to push me one way or the other or, worst of all, putting me into a box that doesn't fit.
Which is what you seem to have done.
