A fine essay from Frederick Turner along the same theme as the article I linked to yesterday: why this “strange and unholy alliance” between the Left and Islamo-Facists?
At this time in the world’s history a great turning point is imminent.
And here we begin to see why there is this strange and unholy alliance
between idealistic liberalism, the vestiges of the old socialist left,
traditional third world authoritarians, and the unrelenting forces of
Islamic totalitarianism, theocracy, and terror. However various their
ideas of what is the good, all are united in their desire for an
enforced law of the good. Even elements of the human rights movement,
much of the anti-globalist community, and a large swatch of the
philanthropic world — the so-called NGOs — still yearn for a
government that, through sumptuary laws, high taxation, political
correctness, and entitlements, would force to happen what people ought
to, but do not make happen of their own free will.
As C. S. Lewis said, theocracy is the worst form of government, because those who know they have the Will of God (or the force of history, or the UN declaration of rights, or whatever) can and will do absolutely anything to enforce it.