September 09, 2004

Naomi Loves Mookie

In what should now be Exhibit A in my contention that the far left and far right are really one and the same, "liberal" writer Naomi Klein suggests in an article in The Nation called "Bring Najaf to New York" that last week's RNC protesters should have sought to emulate the example of theocratic thug Moqtada al-Sadr. Even though Klein is a feminist socialist (not to mention a Jew), and Sadr is an Islamist fascist who would likely put a fatwa on Klein's head- or worse- if the two ever met.

Thankfully, the protesters failed to heed Klein's advice; during the convention, no mosques were reported occupied anywhere in the five boroughs.

Disgruntled ex-Nation columnist Christopher Hitchens responds to Klein's "nasty, stupid article". Would you expect him to resist?:

"When I quit writing my column for The Nation a couple of years ago, I wrote semi-sarcastically that it had become an echo chamber for those who were more afraid of John Ashcroft than Osama Bin Laden. I honestly did not then expect to find it publishing actual endorsements of jihad. But, as Marxism taught me, the logic of history and politics is a pitiless one...
And now Ms. Klein, among many others, wanting to bring the war home because any kind of anti-Americanism is better than none at all. These fellow-travelers with fascism are also changing ships on a falling tide: Their applause for the holy warriors comes at a time when wide swathes of the Arab and Muslim world are sickening of the mindless blasphemy and the sectarian bigotry. It took an effort for American pseudo-radicals to be outflanked on the left by Ayatollah Sistani, but they managed it somehow."

Posted by Stephen Silver at September 9, 2004 03:11 AM
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