The Real Haters: Radical Islamists And Leftists

David Horowitz and I have apparently hit a sore spot on the radical Left. They feel that we have been too hard in our recent articles on their kindred spirit, the radical Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. For example, the Daily Kos ran something called “Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #30″ which attracted this introduction to my post on February 1st:

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From Professional Hater, David Horowitz: by Joseph Klein (hater-in-waiting)

More ominously, Alex Jones’ Infowars.com published a death threat after quoting from David Horowitz’s article and mine:

AllroadsLeadtoTelAviv says: “Can we hire some good unemployed sniper veterans to take these zionazi vermin out?”

These comments help demonstrate how the radical Left and radical Islamists are mirror images of each other, united in their hate of Western democratic values and individual liberties. Ad hominem attacks and death threats against unbelievers are their shared tactics to silence opposition. Indeed, it’s fascinating how, in defending the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Left employs rhetoric to incite violence, which it had blamed conservatives for using to supposedly incite the recent Tuscon shootings. More...