June 9, 2006

Extremists to the Right of Us, Extremists to the Left

To the Editor:

I have two points to add to George Michael's "Strange Bedfellows," on the radical right and militant Islam (The Chronicle Review, April 21).

First, this alliance is not limited to the extreme right. It is also joined by the extreme left, which in recent years has become increasingly anti-Semitic and pro-militant-Islam for reasons of its own. This has been observed by David Horowitz and many others — see, for example, Horowitz's Unholy Alliance: Radical