Posted on 08/13/2006 8:38:21 AM PDT by knighthawk
London's strike reminds us we are at war with Muslim totalitarians
THE apparently successful pre-emptive strike by British and Pakistani police against a home-grown terror cell in Britain should raise the concern of every decent patriotic citizen in Britain, Europe and Australia about their long-term security. For the danger comes from what one would have hoped were the socially integrated children of Muslim immigrants, millions of whom have settled in western Europe and hundreds of thousands in Australia. Instead, a small but potent minority of this second generation has embraced a totalitarian temptation that George W. Bush, following numerous liberal Western analysts, has correctly identified as Islamic fascism.
The word fascism has been the most inflated and misused political term in any Western language. To the 20th century's first generation of communists, it referred to anyone who advocated a forceful response to causes dear to communists or fellow travellers. In its most ridiculous misuse, during the 1930s, German communists, under orders from Moscow, referred to their social democratic rivals as social fascists.
The second generation of communists and the West's New Left of the '60s also inflated and misused the term to describe their resilient domestic opponents on the Left or Right, as well as any developing world dictatorship aligned with the US.
Yet for those with a respect for history and intellectual clarity, the term has a more precise meaning. It refers to a revolutionary political mass movement or regime that aims to achieve national greatness by radically transforming political and social life with totalitarian rule and by a policy of imperial expansion. Fascist ideology is reactionary in that it aspires to re-create a mythical past.
The originator of the term fascism was Benito Mussolini. Yet the dictatorship he created in Italy was in practice more farce than a revolutionary ideological reality. The only genuinely revolutionary and brutal manifestation of fascism that combined totalitarian rule with global expansion was the German National Socialist regime. It was also permeated by a virulent racism that was profound and genocidal. Nazism was imitated by radical right-wing movements in wartime Croatia (the Ustashi), Hungary (the Arrow Cross) and Romania (the Iron Guard).
Fascism and its nominal antithesis, communism, were, until the late '70s, the only two visible manifestations of totalitarianism. Communism differed from fascism in that it looked towards a social utopia that it claimed had never yet existed. It also proclaimed an affinity for Western enlightenment values, especially social equality and scientific rationality, although in practice it created new systems of social inequality.
Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the world has been confronted by a new form of totalitarianism. It is a multidimensional phenomenon that originated not only before Bush but even before the state of Israel was created. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in British colonial Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna. Its most famous theoretician, Sayyid Qutb, was executed in Egypt in 1966, one year before Israel's success in the Six-Day War made it a hate object of the Western Left.
Radical Islam is different from communism, and from what we had come to know as fascism in Europe, by its ostensibly religious character. But the Islamic revolution in Iran was like European fascism in its totalitarian domestic ambition and its violently aggressive foreign policy. It was also vehemently racist, persecuting Iranian Jews and people of the Baha'i Faith in particular. From its inception the Islamic Republic of Iran has been committed to the destruction of Israel.
The Iranian regime, which represented the Shia strand of Islam, claimed to be the centre of global Islamic revolution, fostering mentoring relationships with Shia parties and religious leaders throughout the Arab world, most notably with Hezbollah (The Party of God) in Lebanon, which Iranian agents created in 1982. Hezbollah's incumbent leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has declared Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities and that Israel is a cancerous body in the region that must be uprooted. Hezbollah has carried out numerous bombings and political assassinations abroad on Iran's behalf. The most spectacular were a suicide bomber's massacre of 241 US marine peacekeepers in Lebanon in 1983, and the bombing of the Israeli embassy and Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires in 1994, slaughtering more than 100 Argentinian Jews.
Hezbollah also has kidnapped scores of Western journalists in Lebanon during the '80s, torturing and murdering many of them, and has assassinated Iranian opposition politicians in France and elsewhere. As we have seen recently, Hezbollah initiated conflict with Israel, then launched rockets on Israeli civilians.
Hezbollah is believed to have clandestine sleeper cells from among the Shi'ite immigrant communities throughout the Western world, including Australia. The Iranians are more ecumenical than their Sunni terrorist rivals. Iran's clients include not only Hezbollah but also, within the Sunni world, the Palestinian terrorist organisations Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
Of course, Iran is not the only locus of Islamic fascism. In 1994, a rival Islamic totalitarian regime from the Sunni branch of Islam, the Taliban, seized power in neighbouring Afghanistan.
It became the base and training area for the Sunni terrorist organisation al-Qa'ida after that organisation was expelled from Sudan.
Al-Qa'ida had been founded by Abdullah Azzam in 1988. Its explicit ambition was the destruction of existing Arab regimes and the creation of a religious caliphate in an arc stretching across the Muslim world, from Indonesia, Malaysia and The Philippines through to the Arab world and including the region of Spain known as Andalusia. Its modus operandi rests on the terror of the deed. For those who imagine that al-Qa'ida's wrath is directed only against those nations that have intervened in Iraq, one should note that it was founded 15 years before the Iraq war, at the height of Western support for the Afghan mujaheddin.
Moreover, it has attacked a French tanker in the Persian Gulf and has launched attacks in Muslim countries, notably Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan.
As we know from the events of last week, al-Qa'ida's present tactic is to recruit citizens of Western countries to carry out horrendous terrorist acts in the West. In the case of Britain, the problem is that a minority of the Muslim community sympathises with the terrorists. A British Daily Telegraph poll in February on the July 7, 2005, bombings of innocents on the London Tube and bus showed that 6 per cent of British Muslims insisted the bombings were fully justified. As the poll noted: "Six per cent may be a small proportion but in absolute numbers it amounts to about 100,000 individuals who, if not prepared to carry out terrorist acts, are ready to support those who do."
By now it should be patently clear that we in the West are at war with a hydra-headed and barbaric enemy that has not a shred of humanity and relishes the bloodletting of tens of thousands of innocents, including other Muslims. It is at least as brutal as the Nazis and communist enemies we have faced in the past. Although radical Islam is not militarily as powerful as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, it has the huge strategic advantage of suicide bombing, which is immune to deterrence.
Should any of its constituent elements -- the Iranian Government or al-Qa'ida -- acquire nuclear weapons, it will likely attempt genocide against Israel and create devastation in the West of an unprecedented kind.
Stephen Morris, an Australian citizen, is a fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.
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We can say islamic fascists. The term 'Muslim totalitarianists' has not been approved by the PC police.
Good post. The last sentence is the most important.
For the danger comes from what one would have hoped were the socially integrated children of Muslim immigrants, millions of whom have settled in western Europe and hundreds of thousands in Australia. Instead, a small but potent minority of this second generation has embraced a totalitarian temptation that George W. Bush, following numerous liberal Western analysts, has correctly identified as Islamic fascism.
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The essence of it all, and let us hope the remaining liberal blind fools of the world will finally join the fight, do what is necessary, to defeat this cult of death.
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"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"
--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
Good catch. The last sentence sums it up, pretty well.
"Instead, a small but potent minority of this second generation has embraced a totalitarian temptation..
small? yeah
The author is correct. Fascism is the most misunderstood, missused term in the political lexicon. It is incorrectly called a rightwing ideology becuase it is pro-church and socially conservative and is anti-communist. It is equated to Nazism, yet Fascism was not racist, nor was it a totalitarian regime.
"it has the huge strategic advantage of suicide bombing, which is immune to deterrence"
NOT TRUE... if you start getting the word out that every suicide bomber will be burried with pigs and wannabe terrorist will be executed with bullets rolled in PIGFAT and that their relatives will all meet the same fate...
... no virgins and no heaven REWARD! See how fast that will lower the number of volunteers
"... suicide bombing, which is immune to deterrence."
Suicide bombers and jihadist "warriors" are not afraid of a quick and glorious death. However, a slow, humiliating, public, excruciatingly painful death, inflicted on people who are caught plotting these activities, would probably have a deterrent effect. Unfortunately, "cruel and unusual" punishments are banned in Western societies, and the Islamofascists know this.
Communism - A system of government where all property is owned and controlled by the government. Laws are defined, redefined and enforced based on the whim of the government.
Fascism - A system of government where most property is nominally owned by individuals and groups, but is actually controlled completely through government regulation such that the nominal owners effectively have little or no control over their property (and thus their lives). Laws are defined, redefined and enforced based on the whim of the government.
Socialism - A variant of fascism intended to lead to communism.
Collectivism - A philosophy that defines the importance of the collective as superior to the importance of the individual. See also Communism, Fascism and Socialism.
Capitalism - A system of government where most or all property is actually owned by private individuals or groups and where the rights of those owners are facilitated by objective rules of law enforced objectively by the government. Laws are defined by the consent of the governed through direct or indirect representation and are constrained by basic rights of man, usually articulated in a constitution.
Religious Fascism - A system of government resembling fascism, but where the principles of the law are defined by purported communications with or inferences about the whims of a supernatural being or beings rather than the whims of men.
I think this misses the point badly. Islam offers "people of the book" (essentially Christians and Jews) three choices: conversion, dhimmitude, or death. Others, such as Buddhists, Hindus, animists, etc., are offered only two choices: conversion or death. True Islam does not offer any hope of "peaceful coexistence."
It's time to quit treating Wahabbism as an abberation of Islam. The Wahabbists are the only ones who really follow the Koran. The term "moderate Muslim" really means "bad Muslim," that is, one who does not take the Koran seriously. Any Muslim may at any time "get religion" and decide to take the Koran seriously. This means that every Muslim in the US, England, and Europe is potentially an active enemy. Every one of them is a "pre-cancer" cell in the Body Politic.
We have to recognize that we are at war with an "armed doctrine" that intends to destroy us. Ultimately, there is no hope of peace unless Muslims quit being Muslims. The fact that the 94% in the poll quoted do nothing to condemn the 6% shows where their hearts are. In terms of their potential to harm us, they are no different from the "parlor pinks" who provided intellectual coverage for the Communists who were actively working to subvert us during the Cold War.
" a small but potent minority of this second generation has embraced a totalitarian temptation"
These Islamic terror cells are strikingly similar to the SDS, Weather Underground, and other radicals of the New Left, who were shown to be mostly the children of Old Left parents. Contrary to stereotype, children do not often rebel against parental upbringing; often they adopt a more extreme and uncompromising version of parentally approved beliefs.
Sounds good to me!
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