"Western left's self-hatred"

Beazley will hurt the US alliance at his peril
Gerard Henderson
October 3, 2006
In a recent essay titled The Left and the Jihad, Professor Fred Halliday (who is no barracker for Bush or Blair) has expressed concern that "many groups of the left" appear to see radical Islamism as "exemplifying a new form of international anti-imperialism" which they welcome. Halliday points out that since the formation of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, jihadists have targeted the left. This suggests that the Western left's self-hatred is still with us.