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The advocacy of the ultra left liberals for islam seems to defy logic,
and it may in fact be sheer craziness, as our holy Sages revealed that the goal
of the evil inclination is to make a person literally crazy G.f. (i.e. not just
to get them to sin, but to literally send them over the edge. See Likutay
Moharan, Torah-teaching 1, and see the mussar books on the followers of
Korach).
However, there are two very clear prerogatives.
One, the liberals are out for complete freedom of their desires, and yet
they find themselves constrained and restrained by all types of values imposed
by society. Whereas islam uses their projection of god to allow them to do
whatever they desire. This is something the liberals are trying to figure out
how to gain, without having to think of any sort of god, even if it is just a
projection of themselves. Hence their need for islam.
Second of all, when a person is bereft of any formal guilt, when there
is nothing that is wrong and shameful, then all those pleasures which became
permitted also lost most of the pleasure, and are left very emaciated, empty,
and undesirable. In order to compensate for this there is a need to maintain a
surrounding which keeps up a very strong prohibition and condemnation against
those pleasures (this is similar to sadomasochism, where the pleasure can only
be gained by perpetuating a correlating pain). Thus the liberals need islam in
order to flirt their wayward pleasures in its presence.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
