Posted on 11/14/2004 1:21:17 PM PST by quidnunc
In the twentieth century, genocidal, imperialist totalitarians wore swastika armbands, herded members of supposedly inferior races into concentration camps and shouted, Heil Hitler! In the twenty-first century, they wear black coveralls and hoods, decapitate civilian contractors, shoot children in the back, plow hijacked airplanes into buildings and shout, Allahu Akbar!
Jihadism is this centurys equivalent of Nazism in more than just barbarity. The Osama bin Ladens and Abu Musab al-Zarqawis are the violent face of a coherent, ruthless ideology that imitates the Nazi method of winning popular support. Jihadists whether terrorists, imams or intellectuals exploit collective frustration by converting it into a pervasive sense of victimization, then offer the solution: embrace an inherent superiority, seize entitled power and destroy all opponents.
Just as the Nazis described Germans as victimized by a decadent West as represented by democracy, jazz, degenerate art and the Versailles treaty so do jihadist intellectuals describe Muslims.
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Just as the Nazis believed that oppression prevented Germans from fulfilling a destiny mandated by their unparalleled superiority, so do jihadist intellectuals who view Muslim superiority as spiritual, not racial.
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Al-Asi rejects Western values and asserts Muslim superiority more emphatically. Obviously, all of this spells out an agenda of Islamic political activity, not in the Western definition of politics, which is sullied and corrupt, but in the Islamic definition of politics, which is clean and healthy, he says. He criticizes his co-religionists for being seduced by a cunning materialism that decays the Muslim will and causes the Muslims to join the modern and developed world!
Just as the Nazis regarded Blitzkrieg as critical in the fight against an oppressive West, so do sympathetic intellectuals regard jihad, as Ramadan himself implies:
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Very true... I have been using this analogy for a while.
The Germans of the 30s were a highly competent people who were quite capable of accomplishing their goals had a few breaks gone the other way.
Luckily for us, the jihadis are not.
They have no chance whatsoever of winning.
The only question is how much destruction they will cause before they are themselves destroyed.
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But curiously American and European Leftists don't see the similarities--or pretend not to.
Clean and healthy so long as the bodies are rapidly disposed of. Dismemberment helps with this.
Yes, the jihidis are stupider, but there are more of them.
bttt
They always had deep links of brotherhood.
We were always told that the Third Reich was defeated. It never was destroyed. It found a new home in Muslim countries. Many Nazis fled to the Muslim countries, like Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia. Muslims share a lot in common with Nazis, Communists, and leftists. They want to destroy America and Western Civilization, Christians, and Jews.
All government labor unions in each state and Washington has reached a dangerously close level to all civilian labor across the country the latter having none of the perks a federal laborer has. The federal employee lobbies for more entitlements, more pay for fewer hours of labor with all costs paid by the government...the money must come from the American tax payer for these Government Unions. The civilian laborer/business owner must make it on his/her own. The former is a Socialist, the latter a Conservative.
So Jihadism could not gain a foot hold with out the afore mentioned conditions you take a country and remove the basic religion and remove that countrys history through liberal thought control, liberal courts, liberal education and liberal leaders and you have the perfect mix for Jihadism. Europe will be Muslim rather than Christian within a few years because Christianity, Judaism and Catholicism are straying from their foundations in order to keep members, those entrusted with Gods word have made being a Christian more lenient to suit the times, not the message. Islam on the other hand, has changed little since its inception. Plus the Muslims are reproducing at an alarming rate; Catholics and Jews are not. The ACLU files a lawsuit every time the name of our Lord or symbol of him/Christianity comes into view that same organization of lawyers does not lift a finger to discourage Islam being taught in American Public schools and more and more Mosques being built throughout the country.
[The] argument is that democracy, freedom and civilization are under attack and must be forcefully defended
......An understatement to say the least and that dear people is exactly why George Bush was re-elected America successfully dodged the Socialist bullet once again making it harder for the Islamic hoard to take over the Western World. Socialism embodies a certain lawlessness to humanity
do your research. (sorry for the rant)
The leftists don't see the similarities between Nazism and jihadism because they themselves have become fascist. No longer does the left want to have the state own everything, they want fascist-style controls on private enterprise and protectionism (globalization which is internationalist is now bad according to the left).
The left is now more in debt to the existentialists (and among them the old Nazi Heidegger) and to Nietzsche than to Marx or Eugene Debs. 'Multiculturalism' and 'radical feminism' don't fight stereotypes with a collectivist universal humanism, they accept them and 'transvalue' them. (There's a lot of tripe on the left about different ways of knowing which stripped of its academic trappings comes down to 'blacks have rhythm' and 'women are less rational than men' except that instead of these being bad things, hey presto! a wave of Nietzsche's magic transvaluation of values wand, and these are good things!)
Their existentialism--blind commitment to 'the cause' as the source of meaning--makes them kin to the jihadists whose new understanding of 'martyrdom' owes as much to Sartre via Sayeed Qutb as it does to the Koran. (Absolute commitment (in the existentialist sense) to Allah now trumps the Koranic prohibition on suicide.)
Leftists nowdays share with the jihadis a Nietzschean admiration for barbarism. The jihadis are just braver in putting their admiration into practice. While the left are content to get misty-eyed about Native Americans living in harmony with nature, or the 'authenticity' of some non-Western culture, the jihadis actually live according to the mores of barbarism.
The old leftists have either died, died intellectually and bought into the new existentialist/romantic/Nietzschean version of the left or become neoconservatives---xcept Christopher Hitchins and maybe a handful of others who are still leftists in the old mold, but do 'get it' and are with us in opposing the jihad.
"The leftists don't see the similarities between Nazism and jihadism because they themselves have become fascist. No longer does the left want to have the state own everything, they want fascist-style controls..."
The book predates 911 and is a sound discussion on the roots of fascism, its aims and methods, and how the far right and the far left are synonymous.
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