The virulent anti-Israel protests across America and Europe throw a glaring light on the bizarre alliance between left-wing activists and militant Muslims.
What makes the alliance so strange are the deep-seated differences between leftists and Muslim fundamentalists over core beliefs.
The left supports women's rights and full equality in the workplace and public sphere.
The left supports religious freedom, including the right to reject religion altogether.
Militant Muslims embrace it for any book they believe insults Islam or supports Israel.
In their place, these opponents rely on a toxic brew of ideas drawn from: Karl Marx, of course Franz Fanon Edward Said Herbert Marcuse And, for the most extreme Muslims, revolutionary theologians like Sayyid Qutb, the intellectual father of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and its subsidiary in Gaza, Hamas The mixture of these ideas makes a confused jumble.
This negative, often nihilistic, ideology inverts the old adage, "Might makes right." Their implicit claim is that "Weakness and poverty make right." It doesn't.
What's right or wrong has nothing to do with who has wealth and power and who does not.
Where it failed was in countries racked by civil unrest or governed by rapacious regimes that didn't provide public order or secure property rights and stole the revenues needed to provide essential public goods.
Those practices were always inconsistent with the Western ideal of human equality and were finally outlawed in the mid-1960s by the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
The common fact is that state sovereignty includes the essential right to control who can enter each country.
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