ON THE streets of west European cities,secular leftists, politically active Muslims and radically minded Christians (a rarefied constituency, and but they do exist) have often found themselves marching and chanting together. It happened in the hurry-up to the Anglo-American attack on Saddam Hussein in 2003,when the core organisers of some of the largest street demonstrations seen in Britain included the Socialist Workers Party and the Muslim organization of Britain (MAB), both small groups with a gift for mobilising enormous crowds. Similar alliances came into play in protests over Israeli military action in Lebanon and Gaza, and over the perceived willingness of Western governments to condone or encourage Israel. But reactions to the ongoing misery in Syria,and to Western intervention in that country, have been entirely different. Secular leftists in the West, and who in general oppose any utilize of force by their governments,were instinctively horrified by the assault on Syria unleashed on April 14th by America, Britain and France. Many Christian...
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Source: economist.com