the islamists and far lefts both have a common theme, hate of the west and the need to control others '10 Feb

Submitted by Phil Greend (Canada), Feb 16, 2010 at 00:57

With regards to the islamists, they wish the koran and imans to rule the world. To control every aspect of peoples lives. The far left has a desire to have the government involved in many, many aspects of peoples lives.

The amount of hate that is seen in these people is extreme. For capitalism and for democracy both groups have a clear contempt.

Which sadly raises a third common part, and that is that both groups have contributed nothing to society. There are no muslim inventions in the last 200 years and the far left wishes not to raise the poor up through capitalists making new jobs but rather by means of robbing from the rich to give to the less fortunate.

Weird thing is the far left people, although I disagree with them on many subjects, there are somethings I like about them. They fight for the little guy, the downtrodden, women, children, minorities both of color and religion. Where as, we know with the islamists, that they oppress and treat all of the people listed above very very poorly. The islamists then say that hurting others is the will of allah and the koran commands them to kill all non-muslims.( which would include most far left people)

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