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What is behind the left’s sympathy for Islamist right?

25 August 2016

7:19 AM

25 August 2016

7:19 AM

In 2015 Nick Cohen announced his ‘resignation‘ from the left in protest at its open support for the Islamist extreme-right. Christopher Hitchens lost many an old comrade on the proposition that the secular left should oppose ‘theocratic fascism’. Muslim reformers such as Ayann Hirsi Ali and Majid Nawaz have been left out in the old by those on the left who consider themselves the champions of feminism, secularism and homosexual rights.

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