ISLAMOFASCISM
August 28, 2006
by: jovial_cynic
by: jovial_cynic
The War on Terror? No, no - that's so pre-August, 2006. After the thwarted attempts to blow up airplanes again with liquid explosives, we're no longer fighting against Terror.
According to Bush, the attempted bomb-plot is "a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists." I guess I needed reminding, because I thought we were still fighting against... you know, Terror.
Our new war, apparently, clumps together all sorts of folks from the Middle East. Iran, Syria, Palestinians, Lebanese... and don't forget Iraq. Iraq, in which the leader was democratically elected and ran the country via secular rule. Doesn't sound very Islamic to me... perhaps the Bush Administration doesn't know the difference between Persians and Arabs, and between Shi`ites and Sunnis. I guess the Administration wants us to clump everybody together.
Katha Pollitt's article, reprinted on AlterNet states:
"Islamo-fascism" conflates a wide variety of disparate states, movements and organizations as if, like the fascists, they all want similar things and are working together to achieve them. Neocons have called Saddam Hussein and the Baathists of Syria Islamo-fascists, but these relatively secular nationalist tyrants have nothing in common with shadowy, stateless, fundamentalist Al Qaeda -- as even Bush now acknowledges -- or with the Taliban, who want to return Afghanistan to the seventh century; and the Taliban aren't much like Iran...
It's a good thing Saudia Arabia isn't among the Islamofascists, being that they're a US ally and all.
It was under the actually existing US-supported government that female students were forced back into their burning school rather than be allowed to escape unveiled. Under that government people are lashed and beheaded, women can't vote or drive, non-Muslim worship is forbidden, a religious dress code is enforced by the state through violence and Wahhabism -- the "Islamo-fascist" denomination--is exported around the globe.
But nevermind all that. We're at war.
According to Bush, the attempted bomb-plot is "a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists." I guess I needed reminding, because I thought we were still fighting against... you know, Terror.
Our new war, apparently, clumps together all sorts of folks from the Middle East. Iran, Syria, Palestinians, Lebanese... and don't forget Iraq. Iraq, in which the leader was democratically elected and ran the country via secular rule. Doesn't sound very Islamic to me... perhaps the Bush Administration doesn't know the difference between Persians and Arabs, and between Shi`ites and Sunnis. I guess the Administration wants us to clump everybody together.
Katha Pollitt's article, reprinted on AlterNet states:
"Islamo-fascism" conflates a wide variety of disparate states, movements and organizations as if, like the fascists, they all want similar things and are working together to achieve them. Neocons have called Saddam Hussein and the Baathists of Syria Islamo-fascists, but these relatively secular nationalist tyrants have nothing in common with shadowy, stateless, fundamentalist Al Qaeda -- as even Bush now acknowledges -- or with the Taliban, who want to return Afghanistan to the seventh century; and the Taliban aren't much like Iran...
It's a good thing Saudia Arabia isn't among the Islamofascists, being that they're a US ally and all.
It was under the actually existing US-supported government that female students were forced back into their burning school rather than be allowed to escape unveiled. Under that government people are lashed and beheaded, women can't vote or drive, non-Muslim worship is forbidden, a religious dress code is enforced by the state through violence and Wahhabism -- the "Islamo-fascist" denomination--is exported around the globe.
But nevermind all that. We're at war.