I contend that an incomparably bigger problem is the way leftists talk about Muslims . . . or sometimes just ignore them entirely when Muslim organizations ought to be contacted. That is in part because there are a large number of Jewish leftists of diverse left tendencies active in secular leftist endeavors of all sorts, whereas it's not the same with Muslim communities. Leftists here have ongoing relations with Jewish Israeli leftists, too (I myself have published works of such Israeli leftists as Efraim Davidi <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/davidi231005.html>, Bryan Atinsky <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/atinsky110206.html>, and Michael Warschawski <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/warschawski110106.html> and promoted the Diana Dolev [New Profile activist] US speaking tour <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/dolev181005.html> -- I can't say the same about MRZine's relation to Muslim thinkers overseas or even at home).
It's noteworthy that some of the same people who objected to my articles had also objected to Deepa Kumar's thoughts on the way liberals and some leftists deal with Muslims: <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/kumar210206.html>. Many of the responses were so negative that she felt compelled to write a response to responses: <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/kumar030406.html>. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>