The Strange Alliance Between Islam and Socialism - video

Scroll to 5:41 where Victor Davis Hanson discusses the similarities between Islam and Socialism.

One of the things that is perplexing and often a topic of conversation is this new American-Western European alliance or absorption of Islam and Marxism-socialism-communism. In other words, people who identify as radical Muslims, often in their alliance, include people who are traditional Western Marxists, and it doesn't seem possible for a variety of ways...

Another thing that's quite different is Islam believes in Allah, and that's it. All other people who are non-believers are doomed to hell... But throughout the history of socialism and Marxism and communism, all of them agree on one thing, that religion is really the opiate of the masses...

Another thing is the Arab world is based on tribalism...

But Marxism is very different. Your first allegiance is... the global proletariat, the oppressed...

So, what's the similarities? One, they hate Western civilization. They can't stand the values of Western civilization, free speech, religious opportunity, market capitalism, etc. They both hate that and Islam has been... at war with the West since the seventh century, and it's fought Westerners not just in the Crusades, but all through the history of the Byzantine Empire, all through the history of Europe and North Africa...

And when [Osama] bin Laden said the great tragedy was that Islam lost its hold in Europe, what he was basically talking about was the Battle of Tours and the stopping of the Islamic movement northward into Europe. They, of course, have, in the Quran and its related apocrypha, there's a lot of hatred of Jews.

They hate Israel with a passion. So do Marxists, socialists...

They hate capitalism...

And we know from the history of socialism, they say they believe in free speech, but very quickly socialists try to outlaw it, and when they become communists, they kill for it...

They believe the violent method is necessary for the, desired end...