The Muslim Right and the Anglo-American Left: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

[JackRiddler]

17. Remember when the Left called the mujahedeen freedom fighters?

Oh, wait, that was Ronald Reagan.

Or when "the Left" backed the rise of Hamas as a worthy counterweight to the secular PLO under Arafat?

Oh, wait, that was the Israeli state.

Tablet is typically engaging in projection and what I call "confusionism" -- making sure everything is labeled as its opposite, or arbitrarily, until nothing makes sense except for reaction and, effectively, support for the status quo. (A variant on "Alice in Wonderland logic," confusionism can be found everywhere, but the right wing is particularly adept, see topic, "Glenn Beck.&quot

Some more examples of that old Left-wing love for Islamic fundamentalists:


(A Leftist meets with guys calling on the U.S. to support Islamic Front in Syria.)


(A Leftist meets with a major financier of Islamic fundamentalist movements internationally.)




(At least by common attribution, photo of a Leftist engaging with Islamic fundamentalist fighters in Afghanistan.)


(Oops, sorry, how did that get in there? A Leftist speaking alongside some Ukrainian fascist leader. Our Vital National Interests Make For A Series of Alternating Strange Bedfellows, after all, let's not get sanctimonious, pip pip.)

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