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Dogs And Cats Living Together

Martin Bright says that "the left" can take a few lessons from "the right":

...the Foreign Office seems determined to press ahead with courting radical Islamists. Just this month, the British government paid for Yusuf al-Qaradawi to attend a conference in Turkey to discuss the future of European Islam. At home, it funded two Islamist youth organisations, the Federation of Islamic Student Societies and Young Muslim Organisation, to help run a roadshow of Muslim scholars to tour the country. Fosis and YMO, while condemning violence, are ideological allies of the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamaat-i-Islami. It is ironic that conservative thinkers categorise these organisations accurately as part of an Islamist extreme right, while many on the left continue, wrongly, to see them as part of some wider international Muslim liberation movement.

While this situation remains, there is no shame for those on the left opposed to the rise of radical Islam to build alliances with conservatives prepared to call fascism by its real name.

Yes. Like (finally) George Bush.

Posted by Rand Simberg at August 10, 2006 10:46 AM
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But he also saw that there was another tendency on the left which recognised the totalitarian tendency within Islamism: 'Many leftists see militant Islam as destructive of the European rationalism in which the left has its true roots.'

Yup.

Posted by Bill White at August 10, 2006 11:01 AM

see militant Islam as destructive of the European rationalism

Really? Who would have thought of it!

Posted by Ilya at August 10, 2006 11:14 AM

"...conservatives prepared to call fascism by its real name."
"Yes. Like (finally) George Bush."

Now that's irony.

Posted by Brian Swiderski at August 10, 2006 01:33 PM

How is it ironic Brian? It does not meet the definition of Irony in any way.

Your calling Bush a Fascist no more make him one than my calling Benito Mousilini a Credenza made him one. I can go around and repeat that he is a Credenza a thousand times but people will only question my sanity...........like normal people question yours.

Posted by Mike Puckett at August 10, 2006 02:55 PM


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