Their current focus now is the devil incarnate – the US and its pariah Israel. To the Left Wing intellectual, who no longer knows how to understand the world and whose Communist gods have all died, there is no more hope. They saw Islam as a process to "spearhead a new insurrection in the name of the oppressed". Pascal Bruckner is a prize-winning novelist, philosopher and essayist and, although he writes from a French perspective, his analysis of the current intellectual zeitgeist questions both sides of the Channel.īruckner doesn't see the problem as French-only, noting that Islamo-Leftism emanated from the British Socialist Workers Trotskyites and fanned out Europe-wide.
And what were we to think when our feminist friends celebrated the veil as a symbol of anti-imperialism and a way of turning off predatory males? And how could we remain silent when the Left celebrated the sight of the planes flying into the Twin Towers ? At Ground Zero how could we listen when they dismissed the three thousand murdered office workers, police and fire fighters' deaths with, 'America had it coming!'? And where was their outrage at the Madrid and London bombings? Unable to recognise the war when it came, the Left continued to blame the innocent for being the victims of the jihadist. Didn't we? That was before Islamic fundamentalism was broadcast from British mosques and we got used to seeing a rise in burkhas and blacked- out women on our streets.
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