By James Simpson -- BombThrowers——Bio and Archives--November 27, 2017
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At a moment when a motley crew of demonstrators, protesters, and violent urban thugs has repeatedly joined forces — not just to make known their unhappiness with the Donald Trump administration, but to bring chaos to American streets and to seek the destruction of our constitutional order — there is an urgent need to understand who is organizing, funding and leading these cabals.No one is better suited for this job than Matthew Vadum. Vadum is the veteran researcher who, among other accomplishments, exposed ACORN’s network of over 350 front groups, and whose book, Subversion, Inc., detailed this destructive organization’s sordid history, agenda, and notorious personnel roster. The uninitiated are baffled by the seeming incongruity of an alliance between leftists and Islamists. After all, the Left preaches atheism, while Muslims preach dedication to Allah and only Allah. The Left preaches gay marriage and transgender bathrooms, while in many Muslim countries, homosexual activity is punishable by death. The Left claims to preach equality of the sexes, while Muslims treat women as chattel. The Left claims to champion human rights, while under the Muslim Caliphate, Vadum writes, “inequality between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between men and women, is enforced. Amputation, beheading, concubinage, execution for adultery, apostasy, homosexuality, and slander, flogging, rape and murder of captives, stoning to death, and slavery are all perfectly legal.” So how do these seeming polar opposites work so well together? Vadum answers:
This counterintuitive alliance between leftists and Muslims is nothing new. Islam and the Left overlap. Socialism is commonly believed to have originated in Europe but it also has roots in the Islamic world. The Arabic word for Islamic socialism is ishtirakiyyah al-Islam.Vadum references nineteenth-century Muslim scholar Jamal al-Din al-Afghani who believed that socialism was inspired by Bedouin traditions. “Socialism is part and parcel of the religion of Islam,” he said. The book does an excellent job of describing how the marriage between Islam and the Left is a happy one, because both share the goal of destroying the U.S., both are totalitarian in inspiration, and in spite of the Left’s moralizing over social issues, its true agenda is power. The very alliance between the Left and a consummately intolerant medieval political-religious cult betrays this truth. For their part, the Islamists embrace elements of Marxism. Vadum cites Middle East expert Daniel Pipes, who said that Islam has “historic and philosophic ties to Marxism-Leninism.” According to Pipes, Muslim Brotherhood leader Sayyid Qutb believed “an eternal Islamic era would come after the collapse of capitalism and Communism.” Vadum quotes Iranian author and professor, Asfar Nafisi, who says that Islam “takes its language, goals, and aspirations as much from the crassest forms of Marxism as it does from religion. Its leaders are as influenced by Lenin, Sartre, Stalin and Fannon as they are by the Prophet.” Vadum cites prominent Western leftists and communists who have publicly expressed their support for jihadists, including former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, former London mayor “Red Ken” Livingstone, former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young, and former congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). Kucinich even led a chant of “Allahu Akbar” during a campaign stop.
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James Simpson is an economist, businessman and investigative journalist. His articles have been published at American Thinker, Accuracy in Media, Breitbart, PJ Media, Washington Times, WorldNetDaily and others. His regular column is DC Independent Examiner. Follow Jim on Twitter & Facebook