Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left
by David Horowitz
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Author: David HorowitzEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-02
ISBN: 0895260263
Number of pages: 296
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Book Review: Excellent investigation of the link between the Left and radical Islam
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an interesting book that uncovers well supported links between the Left and radical Muslim organizations funding terrorist activities. Horowitz also shows how the Left drifted away from the Center on foreign policy since Clinton left office. This book complements Ken Timmerman's Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender. While Timmerman investigates the dark alleys of arms deal and intelligence agencies corruption, Horowitz covers political currents closer to the broad day light. Thus, Horowitz easily supports his statements with public sources.
Horowitz states that after the repeated failure of communist regimes associated with dire poverty and brutality, the left movement transited into anti-globalization. This movement was lead by many professors and scholars. Horowitz advances the Left has made governance extremely difficult during the Bush presidency. He accepts political dissent is the characteristic of a healthy democracy; but, he feels the Left went overboard. He narrates how the Left organized huge rallies worldwide right after 9/11 conveying a radical anti-Americanism message.
Horowitz feels the Left promotes tragic unintended consequences. He feels the Left's anti-globalization fuels poverty. While, the Left's anti-war on terror serves as the front guard for Islam and its Sharya Laws that are discriminating and violent against women, gays, and other minorities. The Left unintentionally takes the side of Islam that violently opposes its own liberal values.
He criticizes the writings and opinions of leading Leftist intellectuals and historians. This includes Eric Hobsbawm and his main book The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, Gerda Lerner, Maurice Zeitlin and his "Root and Branch," Leslie Cagan, and Professor Todd Gitlin. He dedicates an entire chapter to Noam Chomsky the leading contemporary leftist intellectual. He refers to his book: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (American Empire Project) as the manifesto of the anti-American, anti-globalization movement. He dedicates another chapter to a Chomsky follower: historian Howard Zinn and his book A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.). He then moves on to the political writings of Norman Mailer. Next, comes William Blum, a former State Department staffer and writer of Rogue State, 3rd Edition: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower.
Horowitz states this anti-American movement relies on two assumptions: 1) America can do no right; 2) even the rights America appears to do are wrong. As he demonstrates this movement supports those assumptions through egregious manipulations of history including omissions of the economic failures and human rights tragedies of communist regimes and arbitrarily assigning such failures and tragedies to the U.S. By doing so, they demonize the U.S. and even rejects its foundation and Constitution.
Horowitz then moves on to the Islamic Revolution. He mentions the seminal text of Syyid Qutb called Social Justice in Islam with its purpose of imposing Sharia Law on to the entire world. He quotes Qutb referring to Sharia Law as "a universal declaration of the freedom of man..." Horowitz then shows the intellectual convergence between radical Islam and the Left by referring to the socialist author Paul Berman who stated that Qutb was inspired by the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Yet, Sharia Law treats women and other minorities as chattel and does away with freedom of speech and religion.
Later, Horowitz mentioned that some of the moderate socialists did express alarm regarding radical Islam espousing terrorism. He mentions Paul Berman's book Terror and Liberalism. Berman was puzzled how progressive utopians could embrace such a pathological movement. But, more radical socialist elements felt Islamic terrorism is a justified response to American Imperialism. And, if only America would leave Islam alone it would seize. This ignores that Muslim terrorism is also aimed at their own (Shiites vs Sunnis) and others (Christian Africans, Hindus Indians, etc...).
Horowitz dedicates a short chapter to the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. He mentions that you can't explain how the entire Muslim world is up in arms over Jews establishing a state on 1% of Arab lands. Meanwhile, the segregation against the majority of Palestinian population in Jordan evokes no protest from Arabs or even Palestinians. Also, both land and state were offered twice to the Palestinians (latest in the Oslo proposals in 2000 when 97% of their requested land was offered) and were turned down flat out.
Supranational bodies also participate in this radical anti-American anti-globalization movement. He refers to the UN conference held 10 days before 9/11 named World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Xenophobia. This forum saw dictators including Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein excoriate the U.S. for its racism and crime against humanity. None of them considered the irony given the brutality of their own regimes. This same irony bypassed the many supportive American NGOs present at the conference.
In later chapters, he describes the `unholy alliance' between U.S. based Muslim organizations that support terrorism, the extreme Left including the American Communist Party, and the Legal Left that defends any Muslim arrested for facilitating or participating in terrorism.
In another chapter, he described how Clinton and Gore were vehemently opposed to Saddam Hussein during their term. They passed a resolution in 1998 that was promptly approved by Congress calling for regime change due to Hussein's refusal to submit to UN's arms inspections and evidence of his continuing development of WMDs (quotes Clinton). Horowitz quotes Gore stating it had been a grave error that we had not finished the job of taking Hussein out in 1991 and that we should do everything to prevent him from building WMDs. Yet, a few years later Gore will call Bush a liar and a traitor when Bush follows through on Gore's earlier intent. Gore will side with the three members of the UN Security Council, France, Russia, and China. All of them against regime change since they were all major arms dealers of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Summary of Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left
The bestselling "Unholy Alliance" is now in paperback! Former Leftist radical David Horowitz blows the lid off the dangerous liaison between U.S. liberals and Islamic radicals. With America's battle against the disastrous force of terrorism at hand, Horowitz takes us behind the curtain of the unholy alliance between liberals and the enemy - a force with malevolent intentions, and one that Americans can no longer ignore.World Books
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