Of course many conservatives in Europe were fierce enemies of the National Socialists (for example supporters of the old Hapsburg monarchy in Austria and Hungary).

But I take your point about people being more concered with the Soviet Union – after all the Marxists had murdered TENS OF MILLIONS of people by 1939 whereas the National Socialists had “only” murdered tens of thousands of people.

There may even have been dark thoughts in the minds of some conservatives of making an alliance with the National Socialists against the Marxists – at least till the National Socialists and the Marxists joined up in alliance of their own in 1939 (and it was a very real alliance and not just in eastern Europe – for example the French Communists stabbed France in the back in 1940, something that it is not often talked about).

As for the modern left and Islam:

Yes in Europe right from the 1960′s some factions of leftists have been fairly open in seeing Muslims as a way of helping break down the traditional societies of Europe (including Belguim). And it is a demented tactic – for the reason you have pointed to.

The American left (such as the A.C.L.U.) seems to be headed down the same blind alley.

Of course many conservatives in Europe were fierce enemies of the National Socialists (for example supporters of the old Hapsburg monarchy in Austria and Hungary).

But I take your point about people being more concered with the Soviet Union – after all the Marxists had murdered TENS OF MILLIONS of people by 1939 whereas the National Socialists had “only” murdered tens of thousands of people.

There may even have been dark thoughts in the minds of some conservatives of making an alliance with the National Socialists against the Marxists – at least till the National Socialists and the Marxists joined up in alliance of their own in 1939 (and it was a very real alliance and not just in eastern Europe – for example the French Communists stabbed France in the back in 1940, something that it is not often talked about).

As for the modern left and Islam:

Yes in Europe right from the 1960′s some factions of leftists have been fairly open in seeing Muslims as a way of helping break down the traditional societies of Europe (including Belguim). And it is a demented tactic – for the reason you have pointed to.

The American left (such as the A.C.L.U.) seems to be headed down the same blind alley.

http://jameshammerton.blogspot.com/2008/05/glasgow-anti-scientology-protestors.html

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks:Analysis_requested

European paleoconservatives tried this in the 1930s — thinking that chap with the toothbrush moustache would help stop Stalinism (which really was diabolical), and therefore one should not be too hard on him. We have seen how well that worked

Nowadays you have looney-left liberals making an “objective alliance” against “christofascists” with the mother of all retrograde theological fanaticisms. Marx was right on one thing: history does repeat itself as farce.

(FWIW, Mormons have taken a page from the Scientologists and sue anyone who publishes their handbook of instructions intended for people in leadership position in the church. The irony being that the handbook is very boring.)

There are two reasons:

First Scientologists are a minority group – although, I admit, not a popular one with the politically correct (although the antics of the Scientologists do serve the “useful purpose” of discrediting traditional religion)

Secondly any attack on traditional society (of which Christianity is a part) is a good thing as far as the power-that-be are concered.

Not a “conspiracy theory” – just observation.

For example, in the United States the ACLU would go into a rage if taxpayers money was used to finance a Chrisitan school – but they make no attacks on Muslim Charter Schools being financed by taxpayers money.

This is not because the ACLU activists believe in Muslim doctrines (any more than they believe in Scientology) – it because they see Islam as an ally in destroying traditional America.

Before anyone thinks the above is “paranoid” have a look at the people who founded the ACLU.

They were socialists – they pretended support for a United States Constitution (that it was pretence is clear from their letters) whilst wishing to destroy the principles on which it was based.

Traditional Christianity is only one target – but an important one.

So supporting attacks on Christianity, whilst denouncing attacks on Islam (and so on) is not a contradiction – not when understands where the leftists (in both the United States and Britain and the West in general) are about.