In “See No Unholy Alliance, Hear No Unholy Alliance” at FrontPage this morning, Jamie Glazov defends statements he made on Stakelbeck on Terror from a Leftist attack. The points he makes are well taken and worth reading and saving for reference, even though he is arguing with relentlessly blinkered ideologues who have no interest in engaging the valid arguments of their opposition.
In the first sentence of its attack on my appearance on Stakelbeck, I
am ridiculed for believing that “progressives and radical Islamists are
secretly working together.” First of all, I never said anything about
this alliance being a “secret,” basically because there is nothing
really secret about it. They are screaming it from the roof tops.
Leftist author Naomi Klein isn’t hiding who she is rooting for when she
writes “Bring Najaf to New York,”
an article in the Nation in which she yearns for Muqtada Sadr’s killing
fields to come to America. Noam Chomsky doesn’t ask the cameras to be
turned off when he embraces Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon.Progressives and Islamists are completely out in the open about their
alliance. Just go to any “Israeli Apartheid Week” on any North American
campus and see who is taking part in the Hate-Israel bashing. Take a
peek at who marches side by side in the BDS (“Boycott, Divestment, and
Sanctions”) rallies against Israel. This whole alliance is symbolized
best by the “peace” demonstrations that we saw during Bush’s liberation
of Iraq in 2003, when leftist and Islamist demonstrators in the West
marched arm in arm and chanted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is Great”) “” the
phrase shouted by Muslim suicide bombers before they blow themselves up
along with innocent people. This behavior and the whole alliance in
general is all meticulously documented by David Horowitz in his
masterpiece Unholy Alliance and by me in United in Hate.In any case, while mocking the position that there is an Unholy Alliance between the Left and radical Islam, Right Wing Watch
curiously never utters one word of truth or criticism about Islamism,
Sharia, Islamic Jihad etc. “” and does all in its power to stop others
from doing so as well. So here is the paradigm: You deny that you are in
league with the enemy of our civilization, but at the same time you do
everything in your power to prevent the truth from being told about that
enemy and its agenda “” and thereby make us more vulnerable to its
attacks.If you look at the comments of Right Wing Watch“s readers under the short video clip posted on the site of my guest appearance on Stakelbeck, it is fascinating to see dozens of my critics engage in the key behaviors, and in the articulation of the key themes, of what comprises the Unholy Alliance — while they simultaneously mock the idea that it exists. Here’s an analogy of this absurdity for us to ponder:
Imagine that you are a person who sees Jewish people being
exterminated in an Auschwitz-style Nazi death camp, and, because of your
own personal and political identity and agenda, you don’t want to save
the victims or bring attention to their plight, and you hate your own
society so much that you want, and work toward, helping the Nazi
exterminators themselves come to your own territory and destroy the
foundations and institutions of your own society.Then there is someone who calls you on it. They point out how you
deny what the Nazis are doing, how you deny the suffering and existence
of their victims, and how you even deny the very existence of the Nazis
and the threat they pose. The key here is that your silence/denial and
the silence/denial you impose on society in this matter aids and abets
what the Nazis are trying to do in destroying your society. It makes
your society fragile and vulnerable. It makes you complicit.
Your response to being called on this is ridiculing the person for
saying it, mocking their shedding of light on the Nazi threat and
denying that you and your ilk are in any kind of alliance. And yet this
ridicule, mockery and denial you engage in are exactly what the Nazis need to keep the gas chambers busy and to empower them to bring them unto your own territory.No wonder the Muslim Brotherhood is so very grateful to you, the
deniers of the Unholy Alliance, since you are serving the manipulative,
deceitful and malicious agenda that the Islamists pursue in their
stealth jihad, all explained in their Explanatory Memorandum that was seized by the FBI in 2004 and used in the Holy Land Foundation trial in 2007.This kind of toxic and contradictory maneuvering by the Left is
typical of course. The Left is always habitually attempting to distance
itself from its own history and to obfuscate any straightforward
analysis of its political motives, goals, and allegiances. In so doing,
leftists intentionally blur their own complicity in the greatest crimes
of the twentieth century.For instance, one of my haters in the comment section under the short video clip Right Wing Watch posts perfectly represents this morbid mindset:
“PrometheusRumiHuxley” scoffs at me for using the word “classless” in
a pejorative sense, when I point to the dangers of the Left working
toward its dream of a classless utopia. He clearly thinks a classless
society is something humans should strive for. I guess the history of
the 20th century, and the 100 million lives that were
extinguished on the altar of class hatred, have not made much of an
impression on this individual. Somehow I doubt that another 100 million
deaths would sober him up. That a classless society by necessity
mandates a terrorist component just doesn’t register with the believers
“” even when they become the victims of the terror themselves, as I
document in United in Hate. Yet what does register with
Prometheus is that I am an idiot for saying that people like him want to
destroy our society, which he says is false “” while he hopes for the destruction of capitalism and the building of a classless society. The logic is fascinating and I urge my readers to glance at the comment section under my video clip where Right Wing Watch
readers offer their wisdom on where and how I am a deluded evil man.
The cesspool in which the leftist utopian mind-state squirms and slides
reveals itself in a telling and priceless form.Overall, what Right Wing Watch does in this context is a carbon copy of the Left’s campaign against David Horowitz’s database, DiscoverTheNetworks.org: A Guide to the Political Left.
It’s a campaign that is important to briefly mention here as it
crystallizes the concrete point I am making about the Left in general
and Right Wing Watch“s attack on me in particular:Launched in February 2005, DiscoverTheNetworks.org became
the first website to define the Left comprehensively and map out its
networks of individuals, organizations, and financial supporters. Within
hours of the website’s first appearance on the Internet “” before there
had even been time to read a fraction of the site’s content, which
includes thousands of files “” leftists lashed out in fury.A typical assault came from author Kurt Nimmo,
who called the new database a “smear portal” and alleged that it
unjustifiably lumped together too many disparate people and forces,
especially leftists with Islamist terrorists. Nimmo made this charge
even though DiscoverTheNetworks.org simply catalogues the support that
leftists have given to terrorists “” as exemplified by Michael Moore’s praising the insurgents in Fallujah and promoting their victory over an imperialist United States. DiscoverTheNetworks.org
meticulously demonstrates, in its profiles of individuals (Moore, Noam
Chomsky, Ward Churchill, et al.) and organizations (National Lawyers
Guild, International ANSWER, Code Pink, et al.), that the radical Left
consistently takes the side of Islamist terrorists in their jihad
against the United States.And here’s the clincher: the absurd irony in Nimmo’s condemning the
implication of a leftist-Islamist alliance is that he himself is a
leftist who supports and affiliates himself with Islamist terrorists (especially terrorists in Iraq’s Sunni triangle). [1]Nimmo’s logic clearly exemplifies the Left’s traditional dismissal of
any criticism aimed against it. Dedicating their lives to erasing
individuality “” including their own “” and becoming part of a group from
whose party line they cannot waiver, progressives nonetheless react with
moral indignation when they are classified as being members of that
group. This tactic is a desperate attempt by the Left to avoid an honest
dialogue about its own historical record. Rather than confront the
bloodbath that its ideas have spawned, the Left finds it far safer to
engage in historical amnesia and outright Gulag and Jihad Denial.[B]
The typical personal attacks and attempts to smear an opponent’s
character that the Left engages in cannot, naturally, be missing from Right Wing Watch“s attack on me. Tashman writes that:“The claim that progressives and radical Islamists are
secretly working together would be considered laughable if it didn’t
inspire violent terrorists like Norway”s Anders Breivik and emerge as a
frequent talking point among right-wing activists.”This attempt to associate truth-tellers and truth-telling with a
lunatic mass murderer because he mentioned certain people in his
manifesto (he mentioned over 1,600) has become tired and also been totally discredited. For instance, Breivik references leftist radical Naomi Klein in his manifesto and talks about reading the first few chapters of her book Shock Doctrine. Should his crime be placed at her doorstep? His manifesto mentions Karl Marx 27 times, Herbert Marcuse 24 times and Antonio Gramsci 23 times. Where is Right Wing Watch“s
campaign against these leftist thinkers and its accusation of their
influence on his thought? Where is its demands that their works be
banned?Breivik also champions pro-Islamic viewpoints
in his manifesto, showing especially his endearment to the Islamic
notion of “martyrdom” and talks about how he yearns to emulate some of
the Islamic rituals performed by Jihadists. He greatly admired Osama bin-Laden’s al-Qaida terror network and aspired to create a European counterpart to it. He wrote in support of a restored Islamic caliphate in the Middle East, taking the side of the Left on this matter. Don’t try, of course, to find any talk about this in the mainstream media or at Right Wing Watch, because it diminishes the leftist agenda, so you won’t find it there.In any case, for one of the best pieces that exposes and discredits
the absurd and shameful attempt of the Left to pin Breivik on Islam
truth-tellers, see Robert Spencer’s piece “Islam’s Critics Won’t Be Silenced”
in the L.A. Times. It is really a must read, written by a modern day
freedom fighter, courageous truth teller and one of the sharpest
thinkers of our time. Make sure to digest it, for it makes the key
points against the totalitarianism of our age.