It confuses me why people associate leftism with both Islam AND communism.

It's fairly often I hear people describe leftists as being Muslim-lovers but also communists. Y'all do realize that commies and Muslims absolutely HATE each other. Communists have historically tried to wipe out Muslims.

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OggggO · 36-40, M

Because, thanks to the efforts of groups like the John Birch Society, everything to the left of Barry Goldwater is "Communism", while various fundamentalist groups and figures have convinced them that everything other than Evangelical Christianity is the same devil-worshipping NWO wearing various disguises. Thus, they can't tell the difference between liberals calling for religious pluralism, often with a specific focus on fighting Islamophobia in the West and the Uyghur genocide in China, and communists advocating for the abolition of religion.