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    Sarah Baxter of London's Sunday Times tells a hilarious story about the far left's uneasy alliance with the jihadist far right:

    The children of Che Guevara, the revolutionary pin-up, had been invited to Tehran University to commemorate the 40th anniversary of their father's death and celebrate the growing solidarity between "the left and revolutionary Islam" at a conference partly paid for by Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president.

    There were fraternal greetings and smiles all round as America's "earth-devouring ambitions" were denounced. But then one of the speakers, Hajj Saeed Qassemi, the co-ordinator of the Association of Volunteers for Suicide-Martyrdom (who presumably remains selflessly alive for the cause), revealed that Che was a "truly religious man who believed in God and hated communism and the Soviet Union."

    Che's daughter Aleida wondered if something might have been lost in translation. "My father never mentioned God," she said, to the consternation of the audience. "He never met God." During the commotion, Aleida and her brother were led swiftly out of the hall and escorted back to their hotel. "By the end of the day, the two Guevaras had become non-persons. The state-controlled media suddenly forgot their existence," the Iranian writer Amir Taheri noted.

    After their departure, Qassemi went on to claim that Fidel Castro, the "supreme guide" of Guevara, was also a man of God.
    It's the Hitler-Stalin pact all over again, the second time as farce.

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    most people just scream during free-fall.

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    Maybe not so cozy of a relationship that Yoni would like us to think...

    Che’s daughter Aleida wondered if something might have been lost in translation. “My father never mentioned God,” she said, to the consternation of the audience. “He never met God.” During the commotion, Aleida and her brother were led swiftly out of the hall and escorted back to their hotel. “By the end of the day, the two Guevaras had become non-persons. The state-controlled media suddenly forgot their existence,” the Iranian writer Amir Taheri noted.

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    Maybe not so cozy of a relationship that Yoni would like us to think...
    It was tongue in cheek. I don't think either side of that bed understands anything about the other except that they hate America.

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    It was tongue in cheek. I don't think either side of that bed understands anything about the other except that they hate America.
    THe enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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    THe enemy of my enemy is my friend.
    Until you find out they're infidels...

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