The Meaning of 'Islamofascism'

NYSun ^ | May 24, 2006 | STEVEN STALINSKY

[Free ThinkerNY]

"Isn't it unusual for someone like you to be the Chairman of the Board of CAIR?"

[Lion in Winter]

What poster has that iron cross jpg that turns the word islam into an nazi twisted cross? I would ping him IF I could only remember!!

[Reactionary]

"Fascism, like communism, is a progressive ideology that aims to liberate humanity from the past."

Fascists did not - as communists did - subscribe to materialist philosophy. They did not believe that matter is the primary reality and that economics is the kernel of society or the engine of progress.

Fascists did want to liberate Man from the past, yes. In a sense, they wanted to liberate the West from what they considered the degenerate values of Judeo-Christian history. But they also wanted to return to the past; they wanted to return to Rome, to the pagan world, to the world of war and conquest.

The similarity between Islam and fascism is more than skin deep. Both movements deny the Enlightenment, reason, equality, the immorality of slavery and domination. The only real difference is that fascists believed that their holy law was written in Darwinian Nature; the Islamofascists believe it is written in the Koran.

[backhoe]

What poster has that iron cross jpg that turns the word islam into an nazi twisted cross? I would ping him IF I could only remember...

You wish is my command:

[Lion in Winter]

Yep. that IS the one!! Thanks for posting.

[PRePublic]

Here's more from that article (since you have to subscribe on NySun to read that particular piece).

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Unlike CAIR, many Arab liberal and reformist writers, have supported such an analogy.A Saudi columnist, Muhammad bin ‘Abd Al-Latif Aal Al-Sheikh, published a series of articles in the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah in July, attacking the ideology of the Al-Salafiyya movement (long associated with Saudi Wahhabi Islam). He said that the ideology of this movement was similar to, or even worse than, the Nazi ideology, and that it should be dealt accordingly.

Mr. Al-Sheikh cited the conference on “de-Nazification” held in Potsdam, Germany, shortly following Nazi Germany’s surrender in 1945 to serve as precedence today. He explained it was credited with uprooting the culture of Nazism from Europe and that the conference made Nazism into something similar to a crime, not just in judicial and political terms, but also in terms of culture, ideology, and the media.

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(Steven Stalinsky in The New York Sun, May 24, 2006)
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrint_NYSUN&Type=text/html&Locale=english&Path=NYS/2006/05/24&ID=Ar00601

A columnist for the London Arabic daily Al-Hayat, Zuheir Abdullah, blamed what he termed “Arab fascism”and “Islamism”for leading to the current backwardness of the Middle East. In an August 2003 article he wrote, “since 1948, primitive Arab fascism,” sometimes “allied with fundamentalist Islam,” has produced only “empty slogans.” Mr. Abdullah continued, “many simple-minded people and ignorant persons were unfortunately brainwashed and turned into the fuel of this extremism.” He concluded by stating the Arab world’s embrace of fascism and Islamism has led it to adding “almost nothing” to modern civilization.
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[Dazedcat]

With all due respect, and hopefully not being overly offensive to anyone who reads this, but CAIR can kiss my ass.