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DAVID HOROWITZ INTERVIEWED by Jamie Glazov about his new book Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left. Quotable:

I have .. applied the same term that Trotsky used to describe the international [leftist] movement when he said they were "frontier guards" for the Soviet state. Since 9/11 the .. left and its "international solidarity" units have acted as frontier guards for the terrorists and the terrorist states .. As for the radical death cult, this parallel was noted before me, and quite eloquently by Paul Berman .. in his book Liberalism and Terror. [Leftists] are best viewed as social redeemers, people deluded into thinking they can .. usher in a future in which there are no fanatics, Islamic or otherwise. On day one of the revolution.. the Islamic lion will lie down with the Jewish, Christian and feminist lambs. People who believe that Palestinian suicide bombers are reasonable individuals acting out of political desperation and not sick enthusiasts of a religious death cult, are themselves partial believers in that cult. Their dementia is to believe that if only enough Israelis/Christians/neo-conservatives are eliminated, the world will become a livable and just place. This is the group psychosis that afflicts our time ..

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