The best hope for the Left (IMHO) is to take the lead in laying the groundwork for a sanctuary movement as millions of people are going to leave Islam in our lifetimes. There needs to be organizations who will break away and denounce this sorry state of affairs. The dhimmitude (subservience) of many leftists to Islam is appalling and it will kill the Left if something is not done about it. I know about the Euston Manifesto and also the attacks against them. I challenged Noam Chomsky at zmag to a debate on this about 6 years ago and there was not even a peep of an answer. I know of academics who specialize in communications and are wonderfully talented people become uncritically accepting of Muslim lies and get taqiyyaed without even knowing what taqiyya is. This taboo has got to be shattered even if if painful admissions of stupidity are to be encountered. As I told one halal hippy who is sympathetic to Islam: "Suck it up Princess. You fucked up."
[WS:] I think you are barking at a wrong tree. Do not mistake the left with self-promoting intellectuals in the business of selling their intellectual commodity. They embrace anything that is controversial, including Islam, because it sells their books and speeches to star-eyed kids eager to spite their parents and teachers and embracing the exotic and the controversial. They 'embrace' Islam simply because the establishment rejects it. It is a knee jerk reaction. I bet that if the White House and business establishment officially endorsed Islam tomorrow, these clowns would find something else on the fringes and convert to it overnight.
Wojtek
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