The very similar isms: Communism and Islamism

It seems obvious that the liberals in the western world go out of their way to protect members of the Muslim faith from criticism and and are extremely conscious of ensuring that the "rights" of the Muslims are protected.  Witness the movement in GB to allow aspects of sharia law to apply to Muslim citizens of that country, and the great sensitivity to the feelings of Muslims in the US with regard to the terrorism issue.  Jonah Goldberg has written a book that discusses the natural affinity of liberals to authoritarianism, i.e., Communism and Islamism.  From this lengthy and fascinating article in Big Peace by Andrew Bostom one sees this affinity and connection in spades.  Bostom begins his narrative with the history of Wittakker Chambers and his conversion from communism in the 1930's, and the discussion of Islamism in Chambers's book, "Witness", in which he discusses authoritarian Islamism in the context of authoritarian Marxism, arguing that both of these "movements" represent the union of church and state that define stotalitarianism.  For those in the West who do not take the threat of the Muslim faith to our freedoms and way of life seriously, this piece should be a wake up call.  The Muslim faith is every bit the threat to the West that Communism did and still  poses.  Both isms are antithetical to the freedoms we have all taken for granted in the West for a long time.