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Canadian Islamists

Another Storm Gathers

Wretchard:

To be trapped in an intellectual desert with a faked lodestone and Al Sharpton for company -- if that were not bad enough -- there is the world phenomenon of Jihadi terrorism. Curiously absent from Peretz's essay is the long shadow cast by radical Islam on Liberalism itself. Islamism has already displaced Marxist Nasserism as the primary ideology of the Middle East and if demographic trends continue will displace the Left in Europe too.

I don't think that Islamists will 'displace' the Left. It'll be more like the destruction of the Left in Europe. Right now, the Islamists view the Leftists as useful infidels but when Islamism is dominant in Europe, the Leftists will serve little purpose. The Left will, then, find out the real meaning of Jihad in a brutal fashion.

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