[lbo-talk] The Left and the Jihad by Fred Halliday

Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 13 09:50:36 PDT 2006


--- Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:


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http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization/left_jihad_3886.jsp
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Halliday is not wrong to criticize leftist rationalization or support for radical Islam.

But it is frustrating and depressing that so many of these critiques come from pro-war individuals, like Halliday, Hitchens, Francis Wheen, Nick Cohen.

Now even Ivo Bozic of Jungle World is providing a link in his blog to the bellicist document, the Euston Manifesto.

Whatever happened to radical refusal, the power of negativity?

Why are people compelled to play the realpolitik game?

I think it is a neurotic desire to "do something."

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