Marxists and Islamists Under One Umbrella
Objective: Destroy the U.S.
By Marilyn M. Brannan, Assoc. Editor
Unravelling The New World Order

George W. Bush's visit to London the third week in November was historic for several reasons. U.S. protocol experts say Bush's visit was the first full-fledged state visit to Britain by an American president since Woodrow Wilson. The invitation was particularly significant because President Bush was invited by Queen Elizabeth, not by Prime Minister Tony Blair. Further, President Bush is the first U.S. President since Ronald Reagan to be an official guest of the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

On the grim side is the fact that the street protests that marked Bush's visit were organized by a first-ever amalgamation of Marxist-Leninists and militant Islamists. The marriage between these seemingly incompatible groups had been under negotiation over a period of two years, but came together on the occasion of President Bush's visit to London. It was pulled together by a group called “Stop the War Coalition,” which is part of a larger organization that has orchestrated numerous street events in support of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein over the past two years.

Amir Taheri, an Iranian author of ten books on the Middle East and Islam, shared recently in National Review Online (“The London Streets,” Nov. 18, 2003) a mini-dialogue that occurred when he called the offices of the “Stop the War Coalition” to ask whether the idea is to stop all wars everywhere. A spokeswoman assured him that is not the case and referred him to the first article of the coalition's charter, which states: “The aim of the coalition is simple: to stop the war currently declared by the United States and its allies against ‘terrorism.'”

Moreover, the woman stated, “We really want to stop Bush and Blair from going around killing babies. Our objective is to force the U.S. out of Iraq and Afghanistan.”

“But what if a U.S. withdrawal means the return of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein?” Taheri asked the woman.

“Anything would be better than American imperialist rule,” she snapped back.

So, who are these “idealists” who nurture such nostalgic feelings for the bloody reigns of terror that existed in Afghanistan and in Iraq prior to U.S. intervention?

Taheri describes the steering committee and some of the membership of the “Stop the War Coalition.” The steering committee has 33 members, 18 of whom are from various leftist groups: communists, Trotskyites, Maoists, and Castroists. Three belong to the radical wing of the British Labour party. There are eight radical Islamists. The remaining four are leftist ecologists known as “Watermelons” (Green outside, red inside).

The coalition's chairman is a fellow by the name of Andrew Murray, a former employee of the Soviet Novosty Agency and a leader in the British Communist party. Co-chair is Muhammad Asalm Ijaz of the London Council of Mosques. Other members of the coalition include John Rees of the Socialist Workers' party and Ghayassudin Siddiqui of the Muslim Parliament. Tanja Salem of the Al-awdah group (which is closely tied to Yasser Arafat) is also a member, as are Shahedah Vawda of “Just Peace” (another militant Arab group), and Wolf Wayne of the “Green Socialist Network.”

A prominent member of the Marxist/Islamist protest movement is George Galloway, a British Labour party parliamentarian who is under investigation for the illegal receipt of funds from Saddam Hussein. Galloway claims that the only terrorism in the world today comes from the United States, not from organizations such as Al Qaeda or remnants of the Baath party in Iraq.

The coalition has succeeded in bringing together radical leftist and anarchist groups, with former archenemies such as Stalinists and Trotskyites marching together for the first time under the same umbrella. But the biggest success for the coalition is that it has brought together the extreme Left and militant Islamist groups—something that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago. The Left had always considered Islam to be a relic of feudalism, the instrument of reactionary Arab regimes. As for the Islamists, they had always regarded leftists as atheist enemies whom Allah would require be put to the sword.

It was Al Qaeda's #2 man who first advocated a leftist-Islamist alliance against Western democracies. In August of 2002, he urged Al Qaeda sympathizers to seek alliance with “any movement that opposes America, even atheists.”

The Venezuelan terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal” has given strong support to the alliance. In his book Revolutionary Islam (published in Paris in October, 2003), Carlos says he has advised Osama bin Laden to forge alliances with “all guerrilla, terrorist and other revolutionary groups throughout the world, regardless of their religious or ideological beliefs” in order to accomplish their common goal of destroying the U.S.

Clustered around the nucleus of leftists and Islamists are other groups who hate the U.S. for a variety of reasons. There are supporters of free abortion, opponents of capital punishment, advocates of the Kyoto protocol, anti-Semites, anti-globalization fanatics, and radical environmentalists, to name a few. A good portion of the street demonstrators are what Lenin called “the useful idiots”—those who probably mean well, but whose political naiveté makes them natural prey for the experts in agitprop.

What we have discovered (no thanks to our establishment news organizations) about these anti-war, anti-Bush demonstrations, both here and in Britain, is that these protests are not springing up spontaneously from the grass roots of America or Britain out of an honest disagreement with foreign policy or the conduct of the war. Instead, they are instigated by hate-filled leftists and militant Islamists who have a specific, narrow agenda: the destruction of the United States.

As we learned this past February in the U.S. when anti-war, anti-Bush protests were being held in San Francisco and Washington, the demonstrations were made up of parties, groups, and individuals who have failed to find a place in the established institutions of a democratic society. Likewise, the leftist and Islamist groups involved in this motley enterprise in Britain have never been able to win at the ballot box. They have never garnered more than one-half of one percent of the votes in any British general election, nor have they been able to win even a single seat in parliament or a majority in a municipal council anywhere in Britain.

Thankfully, participation in the war on terrorism was not decided by street mobs. Rather, it was approved in America by a vote of the United States Congress; and in Britain it was the subject of four lengthy debates in the House of Commons in 2001 and 2002, each of which was followed by a vote that Prime Minister Tony Blair won.

It is important to remember that those who can never win elections take to the streets where they do not have to debate complex issues, and where their message can be reduced to a few simplistic but highly inflammatory slogans carried on placards.