That basest of emotions

While the likes of our occasional ulcerated commenter accuse us of enriching ourselves (what with all the advertising we have on our site, and a "tip jar",) what we remember is his hatred. Not unlike one man well liked by Europeans who has exploited death, war, and race for his own enrichment. Surely they have a great deal in common, like a habit for looking for racism and hate under any US flag and Star of David at every opportunity.

This article from MEMRI is quite telling when it comes to hate being little more than a habit and lifestyle. It makes sense when you look at the precise point of commonality that the left shares with a cancer on the culture of the near east:

«Hatred is a General Phenomenon in the Arab and Muslim World, and Not Limited to Americans "...Hatred in the Arab and Muslim world is a general phenomenon that is not limited only to the Americans. It is possible that the Arabs and Muslims hate each other no less than they hate others...
"In the 1990s, over 200,000 citizens were killed in Algeria –– most of them by extremist Islamic groups. What was the response of most of the Arabs and Muslims? A mixture of amusement and of presenting justifications for the murderers and terrorists. During those years, the Taliban movement also abused Shi'ites, Azeris, Tajikis, and other minorities, and no one did anything [to stop it].»

Having my origins in Arab society, I can tell you first hand just how accurate it is, as well as the Dr. Stangelove-like penchant for blame, demonization, hate, and for singling out groups (and not individuals) based on genetics. The similarity the left has to modern fascist and the Nazis is also quite high, but after more than a decade's spinning and reeling after the collapse of the notion of totalitarian communist power, the bleats of anger coming from helplessness are no longer a surprise.

It's as though they need to find a new energetic ideological "superpower" to replace their old reliable standby, Soviet Communism, and looking for it by finding an improbable and unsupportable link between Jihad and western leftism.

For years they resembled the mythical mother who pretends to have a heart attack whenever the 40 year old son takes interest in a woman, but now they have a new revolutionary spirit without ideals. In that sense they look more like the FARC or one of the culturally appropriate seeming Burmese drug lords than a revolution.

Scott Burgess has more on how hatred of the US has allowed some to give themselves the permission to think that terror is “useful” if not downright nifty.