If you think referring to the British left as a congeries of fellow traveling with Islamism is unfair or a straw-man, consider that the mayor of London is still Ken Livingstone. I began my New York Post review of Nick Cohen's What's Left highlighting some of Ken's charms:
IMAGINE if Mayor Bloomberg invited a Muslim cleric from Egypt known for his advocacy of female genital mutila tion, wife-beating, "martyrdom" bombings in Israel and Iraq, and the murder of homosexuals and converts from Islam to be an honored guest of the city.
New Yorkers would naturally rebel against the mayor, who would certainly survive politically. But what if he did something even more brazen and perverse: invite the cleric back.
Surely, it couldn't happen here. But it did happen in London last year under the aegis of left-wing mayor, Ken Livingstone.
Livingstone considers Yusuf al-Qaradawi (the cleric's name) a huggable, "moderate" liaison between East and West. Anyone arguing otherwise Livingstone accuses of xenophobia or – a ridiculous term now gaining traction in the United Kingdom – "Islamophobia."
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