Why does the left identity with Islamic fascists?

A feminist wakes up to the fact the Hezbollah isn’t a feminist’s best friend. Sarah Baxter writes:

As a supporter of the peace movement in the 1980s, I could never have imagined that many of the same crowd I hung out with then would today be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with militantly anti-feminist Islamic fundamentalist groups …

Hassan Nasrallah, … regularly issues bloodcurdling threats against the Jews. “If they (the Jews all gather in Israel,” he has said, “it will save us the trouble of going after them on a worldwide basis.” For some on the left such words are merely understandable hyperbole, provoked by decades of Israeli ill-treatment of the Palestinians, but I prefer to take Islamic fundamentalists at their word …

Why? Because they not only talk centuries-old nonsense about the place of women in society, but they also purposely oppress the female sex whenever they are given the chance. As regards their treatment of women, there is no discernible difference between their acts and their words.

What has happened to feminists who criticize Islam? Phyllis Chesler has found it impossible to be published in the left-wing publications as they “in effect excommunicated her.” Julie Burchill and Melanie Phillips suffered a similar fate.

Andrea Dworkin died last year virtually unmourned by women on the left in part, as her friend Christopher Hitchens remembered, because “she wasn’t neutral against a jihadist threat that wanted, and wants, to enslave and torture females. That she could be denounced as a ‘conservative’,” he concluded, “says much about the left to which she used to belong.” …

The left has decided that No-Nukes was only for the West:

Recently Kate Hudson, chairwoman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, wrote a breathtaking apologia for the Iranian nuclear energy programme, … Since when, by the way, has CND regarded Britain’s nuclear power plants so benignly?

The author sums it up:

The Middle East is engaged in a titanic struggle between modernity and theocracy. Whatever one’s views about the Iraq war or the conflict in Lebanon, it deserves more than slogans about “We are all Hezbollah now” and fury against Bush and Blair. I don’t agree with Chesler that we are witnessing the death of feminism, but for now it is MIA: missing in action.