But both still persist in their fantasies and have formed ad hoc alliances with each other. When America attacked Afghanistan , both opposed it. Both came up with ridiculous conspiracy theories to justify their opposition. September 11 was a plot concocted by the CIA or the Jews. The invasion of Afghanistan was to allow greedy companies to build an oil pipeline.

When Bush wanted to pass the Patriot Act, both opposed it. They know that without the Act, America 's efforts to pursue terrorists would be blunted. Of course, not all who opposed the act are acting maliciously with intent to blunt America ’s ability to deal with terrorists. Some are genuinely concerned with the erosion of civil liberties. But each society must strike a balance between civil liberties and the need to save lives.  

After the Patriot Act was passed, the Center for Constitutional Rights successfully challenged a key provision aimed at blocking support for terrorist groups in a Los Angeles Court on behalf of the Kurdish Workers Party in 2001.

According to the book,  "Unholy Alliance" by David Horowitz, the Center for Constitutional Rights was founded in 1966 by members of the Communist Party or allied with the Left. Some of its key members are also active in the National Lawyers Guild, who had a long history of supporting the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The ruling by the LA court in favor of the Kurdish Workers Party was called "a setback for government anti-terrorism policies" by the Wall Street Journal.

Most Muslim organizations, both moderate and Islamist, also dislike the Patriot Act because they believe that it was directed against them.

In 2003, CAIR, American-Arab-Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor (MCA), Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) and the ACLU filed suit to declare Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act to be declared Unconstitutional.

Both the Islamists and the Leftists apply a double standard against America . While we don't hear of protests from both groups against atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein, the Iranian Mullah and the Taliban against minority groups and women, we hear no end of the Abu Gharib scandal where nobody was killed.

This is because both groups see in America a successful example and advocate of an alternative vision to theirs on the way human society ought to be organized. Communism and its twin brother Islamism are totalitarian ideologies that seek to sacrifice the individual on the altar of their utopian ideals. Democracy and capitalism, of which America is the champion, celebrates the triumph of the individual. Democracy and Capitalism do work and what the Leftist and Islamist advocate do not. That is why the Leftists and the Islamists are like tweedledee and tweedledum living in fantasyland.

Leftists believe that religion is the "opium of the oppressed". Once their perfect society is achieved, there won't be any need for religion and it would wither away. So they dismiss the Islamist threat. America then is their chief enemy. They would do well to remember what happened to their brethren in Iran after they helped Ayatollah Khomeini to achieve power. They were slaughtered. 

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