Here is an interesting open-forum discussion of the association of Leftism and Islamism: http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=7901 <http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=7901&sid=597521fe56ef9e9 af8aac07f74335784> &sid=597521fe56ef9e9af8aac07f74335784 Some of the writers present theories of why this association exists. Others parse Leftism in such a way as to show which Leftists support Islamism, i.e. Those who favored Communism & Socialism, and the Anarchists. The environmentalists and the "new Socialists" (whatever they are) aren't in the writers mind so closely associated with Islamism. Lawrence