Islamist-Marxist Alliance The Gathering Storm, October 17, 2007 By Rick Santorum Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
THE GATHERING STORM Publication Date: October 17, 2007
By Amir Taheri Special to Gulf News, October 17, 2007
In his latest video-taped message, Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden tried to lay the foundations for an alliance between radical Islamism and Western leftist "progressivism."
He quoted with admiration a number of American and European leftists, including Noam Chomsky, the polemicist-cum-linguist who believes that the United States is a "rogue state" and the source of all evil on earth.
The dream of an Islamist-Marxist alliance, however, is not confined to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. It also plays a part in the overall strategy of Iran.
It is in the name of "a global progressive front", Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez are sponsoring a number of projects to underline "the ideological kinship of the left and revolutionary Islam".
The theme, hammered in by Ahmadinejad during his recent visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, was the inspiration for a four-day seminar organized by his supporters at Tehran University last week. With the blessings of Chavez, who partly financed the event, and Ahmadinejad the hope was that the conference would produce a synthesis of Marxist and Khomeinist ideologies and highlight what the Iranian leader has labeled "the divine aspect of revolutionary war".
The conference was given the title of "Che Like Chamran", a play on words designed to emphasize "the common goals" of Marxism and Islamism….
