Progressives love Islam. They view it as a 3rd World Liberation movement fighting the evil West. Oliver Stone, who is now supporting Ron Paul is a very Far Left. His movies have portrayed conspiracies involving the CIA and other shadowy groups that conform the Left’s paranoia. His son Sean Stone has converted to Shia Islam in Iran.

US filmmaker Sean Stone, son of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, converted to Islam on Tuesday in Iran, where he is making a documentary, he told AFP.

“The conversion to Islam is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with. It means I have accepted Mohammad and other prophets,” he said in a brief telephone call from the central

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According to Iran’s Fars news agency, Sean Stone had become a Shiite and had chosen to be known by the Muslim first name Ali.

The Left views Islam as cool and hip. This is why they support it. Sean Stone’s conversion doesn’t shock me. I am shock more Leftists haven’t converted.