
There has been a lot of blog and media chatter this week on the content of OBL's latest rant from his cave, and his apparent embrace of "leftist" language, Personally I wonder where people have been these past few years? in a cave?
The Islamist Ideological seed is from the same source as both, National and State Socialism, the Muslim Brotherhood. Its founder ideologue Sayyid Qutb, was influenced by the politics of Europe, who's academics at the time, (1920s and 1930s) where arguing about which form of Socialism was the correct one, National or State.
In essence, the Islamists are claiming the same things as the Communists and National Socialists, the the formers case, the communists claimed special rights for "workers" as they possessed a special unique knowledge of historic destiny revealed to them through Marx, the Nazis, or National Socialist claimed the same thing, special rights for a Master race, instead of a "Master" class. What the Islamists are claiming is the same, Special rights for a "special" knowledge of revelation, for a "special" people.
You don't have to dig very much in our own history to find just how dangerous these types of beliefs can be.