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Originally posted by hermit22
I think it's unfair to associate any social movement specifically with religion.
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Unfair? It's the people involved themselves that justify their fascism (n : a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government) on the basis of their religion. So if you object to that linkage you'd better address <b>them</b> directly, since they are the ones establishing it.
Look I've got no problem with Islam; there is much beauty and wisdom in it. But anybody who says "My religion says it should run all govenments and enforce my rules on pain of death; my religon also justifies armed jihad to establish our rule everywhere" is just not someone I can get along with. I think "islamo-fascism" identifies this group pretty well; "extremist" is too weak; there's lots of extreme positions that fall short of this in terms of being evil. And leaving out the islamic connection fails to identify this particular movement as distinct from other fascist power grabs.
By "Palestinian red herring" I mean the attempt to cast this terrorism as the struggle of the oppressed Palestinians. That's totally bogus; bin Laden didn't give a hoot about the Palestinians until he saw how universally negative the reaction to 9/11 was. See Premise 3 in the Manifesto.
11-07-2002, 03:16 PM
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