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Unholy Alliance: The "Peace Left" and the Islamic Jihad AgainstAmericaByDavid Horowitz and John PerazzoFrontPageMagazine.com| April 13, 2005[Authors’ note: This is the first in a series of articles and visualmaps describing the unholy alliances that have been formedbetween American leftists and radical Islam, unlikely allies whohave joined efforts to oppose America’s defensive War on Terror and its war of liberation in Iraq. These are mainly (but notexclusively)
de facto
alliances, much as the Hitler-Stalin Pact wasan alliance of convenience based on a common interest:
theenemy of my enemy is my friend 
. This article is accompanied by a"visual map" which displays the actual alliance between the so-called American "peace left" and organizations that are part of, or supportive of, the radical Islamic jihad against the United States.This map is one of the hundreds of similar maps we have devisedfor DiscoverTheNetwork.org, our encyclopedic guide to the politicalleft.]The present article focuses on the so-called "peace left" – socalled because most of the individuals participating in it are notpacifists and are not really interested in peace as such, but inradical agendas that are served by opposing America’s war onterror. (Thus there were no "peace" demonstrations at the Iraqiembassy calling on the government of Saddam Husseinto complywith seventeen U.N. resolutions which the war was undertaken toenforce.)The peace left’s core consists of the ideological descendents of the communist/progressive left that wanted the West to lose theCold War to the Soviet Union. This no mere motley crew of inconsequential fringe extremists, but is in fact the well-organized,militant, and immensely influential driving force behind thecontemporary peace movement and the enormous anti-war ralliesit has recently staged. Upon the foundation of its hatred for theUnited States, the peace left has forged its alliance with radicalIslam, whose wellspring of anti-American hatred runs just as deep.In word and deed, both of these allies make it plain that theyconsider everything about the United States to be evil andunworthy of preservation; that they wish to see American societyand its way of life crushed by any means necessary, including
 
violent revolution. Their position was well summarized by the now-infamous professor Ward Churchill, who asserted that terroristviolence directed against the United States is a morally justifiableresponse to what he characterizes as the U.S. government’s"rape" and "murder" of other peoples. "If we want an end toviolence," says Churchill, "especially that perpetrated againstcivilians, we must take the responsibility for halting the slaughter perpetrated by the United States around the world." Churchill doesnot, however, harbor any hopes that America might mend itsalleged flaws; rather, he advocates the country’s destruction: "Iwant the state gone: transform the situation to U.S. out of NorthAmerica. U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether." Towardthis end, Churchill candidly endorses further acts of anti-Americanterror. "One of the things I’ve suggested," he says, "is that it maybe that more 9/11s are necessary." Lamenting that the terrorism of 9/11 had proved "insufficient to accomplish its purpose" of eviscerating the United States, Churchill wrote, "What the hell? Itwas worth a try."These sentiments are echoed by no less a figure thanOsama binLaden, who in 1998 issued the following edict: "We—with God’shelp—call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to berewarded to comply with God’s order to kill the Americans andplunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We alsocall on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch theraid on Satan’s U.S. troops and the devil’s supporters allying withthem, and to displace those who are behind them so that they maylearn a lesson. The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies—civilians and military—is an individual duty for every Muslim whocan do it in any country in which it is possible to do it."By drawing attention to the alliances between (and the commonobjectives of) the radical left and radical Islam,DiscoverTheNetwork(DTN) has hit a raw nerve for some. Criticshave accused DTN of lumping together all leftists as traitors whosympathize with America’s
 jihadist 
enemies. In an effort to makeclear the distinctions between the most radical and the moremoderate gradations of leftism, DTN hasrefined the photo gridthatwas the source of much indignation. Yet the source of the criticism – the self-described patriotic left – has failed to draw any similar distinctions between itself and the radical, anti-American left that infact does endorse the permanent evisceration of American society.Nowhere is this failure to dissociate from America’s enemies more
 
evident than in the peace movement, where teeming masses of people have participated in demonstrations organized by hard-lineCommunists whose most fervent wish is not to bring about theestablishment of a lasting peace, but rather to see the UnitedStates toppled by an attack from without or a revolution fromwithin.The Workers World PartyIslamic
 jihadist 
organizations such asal Qaedaopenly advocatethe destruction of the United States, on grounds that it is allegedlya land of infidels that has badly mistreated the Muslim world. Their contempt for America – the so-called "Great Satan" – is invariablyaccompanied by a desire to destroy its ally Israel – the "LittleSatan." This baneful agenda is shared by those American radicalgroups that are the major players in the contemporary anti-war movement, on grounds that the U.S. is allegedly an aggressive,imperialistic nation that seeks to impose the evils of capitalism onthe rest of the world. Some of these radical groups actually want tobe part of the
 jihad 
against the United States; they identify with itsobjectives much as the old communist movement identified withthe Soviet Union and its aims. This is a small and somewhatdespised minority on the left but remarkably effective nonetheless.Among the most important groups to openly espouse the
 jihadist 
ideal of destroying the United States is theWorkers World Party (WWP), a Marxist-Leninist sect that uses the anti-war movementas the vehicle by which it promotes Communist objectives andcondemns American society, American foreign policy, andcapitalism. This organization was a chief organizer of the major national demonstrations against the current war in Iraq. It wasfounded in 1959 bySam Marcy, who in the 1960s leddemonstrations against America’s involvement in the Vietnam War and openly rooted for a Viet Cong victory. Under Marcy’sleadership, the WWP even coordinated some of its activities withthose of the North Vietnamese Communist forces. For example, anApril 8, 1972 internal letter "To All Branches" of the party exhortedmembers to participate in "antiwar" demonstrations that would giveencouragement and moral support to a Viet Cong offensive inSouth Vietnam. The man who authored that letter, JohnCatalinotto, is today the managing editor of the WWP’s weeklynewspaper,
Workers World 
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A brilliant work detailing the assault on Judeo / Christian Western values and culture by what appears to be many different groups who have nothing in common, however nothing could be further from the truth. as the author says "..., akin to the cliche, The enemy of my enemy is my friend [whoever he may be].

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