text: Why is the left so enamored of Islam and islamo-fascism?.  After all, Islam unambiguously rejects most of what liberals like Timothy Ash CLAIM to defend: (freedom of religion, womens rights, gay rights, etc)
  History can be most illuminating.  It is an undeniable historical fact that progressives lionized and looked  kindly on fascist movements in Germany and Italy in  the 1930's and in fact had no problem when Joseph Stalin made his famous alliance with Hitler in 1939 (Molotov-Ribbentropp pact). Why were progressives attracted to fascism? Because they both had the same enemy - capitalism and Western democracy.
  
  Today we see the same: progressives defending "one of the most retrograde forces in history" - to quote Churchill - because they see immigration of muslims into the heart of Europe as a useful stalking horse in their interminable battle with capitalism. 
  
  That's why we have twits like Timothy Ash asking: Can the center hold?