The Left have no business in a mosque.

"I'm a conservative-- I'm not entirely on board with the Islamist program when it comes to beheading sodomites and so on, but I agree Britney Spears dresses like a slut: I'm with Mullah Omar on that one."

The above links to an outstanding article by Mark Steyn. In it he raises several issues, focused on the Islamification of Western Europe. The jist of it is that they're having not nearly enough babies and admitting entirely too many North Africans to cover the shortfall.

Also, their social welfare systems will crumble as they have too many people drawing on them with not enough tax payers to finance it.

This is all familiar as conservative sentiment and it's generally true.

Elsewhere in the article Mr Steyn highlights something that's both fascinating and immediately obvious: Muslims are socially conservative.

In Holland there has been a call from within Islamic communities to ban homosexuals from teaching in public schools. Pim Fortuyn criticised this among other things and was rubbed out for his trouble. I'll wager that social progressives lobbied for decades to get gay teachers into public schools, yet a gay sociology lecturer who wants to protect these gains from conservative Islam is considered "Right wing", or even "Far right".

Cultural sensitivity has been taken too far. It's been taken to the point where the social progressives who normally promote it end up apologising for cultures and for people who are not their friends.

You name the issue, and I'll bet that Muslims and the western Left lock horns on it;

The only time you see fundamentalist Islam advocating abortion is when unborn babies are killed by suicide bombs.

No middle Eastern countries that I'm aware of have a cradle-to-grave welfare system (Except maybe Israel, and you know why Israel doesn't count)

The Palestinians I've seen on TV seem very much in favour of universal firearms ownership.

If the two are so fundamentally opposed, why then does the Left like to snuggle up to the camel riding fellows?

It's because they are allies of convenience. They both hate the US.

Every single issue that social progressives have pursued in their history - from civil rights to environmental protection - suddenly takes a back seat to their sour grapes at the world's most powerful nation.

It doesn't matter that the US has given its own progressive citizens more or less everything they have asked for, because that's not how political fashion works. Progressive taxation is so last century.

The Left are acting like spoiled children: Spiteful, rebellious and ungrateful.

It's time they grew up.