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It is Islamic fascism (London's strike reminds us we are at war with Muslim totalitarians )
The Australian ^ | August 14, 2006 | Stephen Morris

Posted on 08/13/2006 10:58:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Stephen Morris: It is Islamic fascism

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: fascism; islam; islamism; islamofascism; jihad; terrorism; terrorists; totalitarianism

1 posted on 08/13/2006 10:58:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
a fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.

Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the world has been confronted by a new form of totalitarianism.

Brilliant guy. Brilliant historical summary.
2 posted on 08/13/2006 11:05:36 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." — Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: nickcarraway

Excellent historical perspective. I always used the term "Islamic fascist" to emphasize the similarity of the current situation to the lead-up to WW2, but I didn't realize the key element that actually makes it fascist: It's central goal is to re-create a past that never really existed.


3 posted on 08/13/2006 11:07:00 PM PDT by Battleofbritain (")
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To: nickcarraway

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.

Facts that the cut and run crowd refuse to understand.


4 posted on 08/13/2006 11:10:53 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: nickcarraway
it has the huge strategic advantage of suicide bombing, which is immune to deterrence.

More and more I think General Pershing's solution, which was to bury the terrorists with slaughtered pigs, thus thwarting their martyrdom, may make twisted sense from a deterrence standpoint.
5 posted on 08/13/2006 11:16:10 PM PDT by Deathmonger
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To: nickcarraway

The "-ic fascism" part is redundant.


6 posted on 08/13/2006 11:40:10 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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To: nickcarraway

This just in . . . sun comes out during day, stars come out at night . . .


7 posted on 08/14/2006 12:21:38 AM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 ("Conspiracy theories are the products of feeble minds." - A. Horvet)
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To: thoughtomator
like antisemitic and Nazi
8 posted on 08/14/2006 12:23:40 AM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 ("Conspiracy theories are the products of feeble minds." - A. Horvet)
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ON THE NET...

WorldNetDaily.com: London - "HUNT FOR CHEMISTRY STUDENT IN BRITISH MASS-TERROR PLOT MI5 security services seeks al-Qaida recruit with expertise in creating liquid explosives" by Gordon Thomas (August 13, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AFP): New Delhi - "BRITISH BOMB PLOT SUSPECT SUSPENDED BY INDIA'S JET AIRLINES IN WAKE OF ARREST, PREVIOUSLY WORKED FOR GLOBAL SECURITY CORPORATION" (August 13, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH): "BABY BOTTLE 'USED AS BOMB'" (August 13, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "PAKISTAN CAPTURES 17 MORE SUSPECTS, SOME BRITISH NATIONALS, IN AIRLINE BOMB PLOT" (August 12, 2006)

CNN.com: "TERROR PLOT: INTERNET CAFES RAIDED" (August 12, 2006)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "TALKING POINTS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The internet is the home front of the global jihad.") (June 19, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com (Dailytimes.com.pk): "'QUAKE MONEY' USED FOR UK PLOT" (August 12, 2006)

News.BBC.co.uk: "FULL TEXT: MUSLIM GROUPS' LETTER" (Last updated August 12, 2006)

FOX NEWS.com: London - "BROTHERS EMERGE AS KEY SUSPECTS IN U.K. TERROR PLOT" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A senior Pakistani security official said the arrest of Rashid Rauf, a British citizen, was followed within days by a telephone call from someone in Pakistan urging the British plotters to execute their plan, "This telephone call intercept in Karachi and the arrest of Rashid Rauf helped a lot to foil the terror plan," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said Friday that Rauf was a "key person" in the investigation. His brother, Tayib Rauf, 22, was among the suspects arrested in Britain; police refused to comment on news reports that another brother was also detained.") (August 12, 2006)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com (AP): "BRITISH PROBE EYES BROTHERS, AL QAEDA LINK" by Paul Haven, AP (August 13, 2006)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "MATIUR REHMAN, THE LONDON AIRLINE PLOT AND THE ROAD FROM PAKISTAN AND TALIBANISTAN" by Bill Roggio (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "As the evidence of the Pakistani connection mounts, reports indicate Pakistani terrorist and al-Qaeda member Matiur Rehman is one of the prime suspects in the London Airline Plot.") (August 12, 2006)

SAAG.org - Search Term "REHMAN"

Google News - Search Term: "Matiur Rehman"

SAAG.org - Search Term: "MATIUR REHMAN"

ABC NEWS - blog - The Blotter: "THE MAN WHO IS PLANNING THE NEXT ATTACK ON AMERICA" -Alexis Debat Reports (August 9, 2006)

KLTV.com: "EXCLUSIVE: NEW FACE OF TERROR" (August 9, 2006)

ABCnews.go.com/WNT: "EXCLUSIVE: NEW AL QAEDA LEADER PLANNING ATTACK AGAINST U.S." (March 2, 2006)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: London - "TERROR ROUNDUP WIDENS" by Al Webb (August 12, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (DailyMail.co.uk): "BRITISH JIHAD SUSPECT TABLIGHI JAMAAT MEMBER" (August 11, 2006)

"www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1676188/posts?page=1037#1037"

BBC NEWS: "US HUNT FOR UK TERROR PLOT LINKS" (Last updated August 11, 2006)

ABC NEWS - The Blotter - blog: "FBI INVESTIGATES AMERICAN CONNECTION TO LONDON TERROR PLOT" (August 11, 2006)

HOT AIR.com - VENT with Michelle Malkin - Blog: "THE RETURN OF TERROR IN THE SKIES" (August 11, 2006)

FOX NEWS.com: London - "UK AGENT INFILTRATED SUSPECTED TERROR CELL THAT PLOTTED TO BLOW UP 10 JETLINERS" (August 11, 2006)

News.BBC.co.uk: "ASSETS OF 'PLANE PLOTTERS' FROZEN" (Last updated August 11, 2006)

News.BBC.co.uk: "'AIR PLOT' SUSPECTS: NAMES RELEASED" (Last updated August 11, 2006)

News.BBC.co.uk: "TWO BRITONS IN PAKISTAN ARRESTS" (Last updated August 11, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (TimesOnline.co.uk): "BRITISH JIHADISTS 'HAD CONVERTED TO DEVOUT FORM OF ISLAM'" (August 11, 2006)

OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (GUARDIAN): "'It was really strange'" (August 10, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (CNN): "HEATHROW AIRPORT EMPLOYEE WITH ALL-AREA ACCESS PASS AMONG SUSPECTED JIHADISTS ARRESTED" (August 10, 2006)

SAAG.org - Paper no. 1907: "OPERATION BOJINKA-2006: THE TRAIL TO PAKISTAN - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR: Paper no. 101" by B. Raman(August 11, 2006)

SAAG.org Paper no. 1906: "OPERATION BOJINKA--2006? - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR: Paper no. 100" by B. Raman (August 10, 2006)

DEFENSElink.mil (AMERICA FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "BUSH: TERROR PLOT TO BOMB PLANES REMINDER U.S. AT WAR" by Steven Donald Smith (August 10, 2006)

DEFENSElink.mil (MERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "U.S. REMAINS ON GUARD IN RESPONSE TO TERROR THREAT" by Jim Garamone (August 10, 2006)

CNS NEWS.com: "U.S.-BOUND FLIGHTS TARGETED IN FOILED BOMB PLOT" by Patrick Goodenough (August 10, 2006)

TRAVEL.STATE.GOV - U.S. Department of State: "Public Announcement" (August 10, 2006)

TSA.gov: "Statement By Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Announcing A Change To The Nation's Threat Level For The Aviation Sector" (August 10, 2006)

Google - News - Search: Various Key Words

9 posted on 08/14/2006 12:38:30 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Surah 2-113

Surah 2-113 says:

"If the US would come clean about this act and other things, then there would be no Al-Qaeda and the like."

First, the United States has nothing further to "come clean" about that we haven't already beat ourselves over the head publicly hundreds of times since Iranian thugs captured our embassy in 1979. Second, you are extremely naive about al-Qaeda.

Surah:

"This country talked ad nauseum with the Soviets, and they had missles pointed at us. But we cannot find the time to talk to Syria or Iran?"

It's true the Soviet Union had missles, but they weren't flying airplanes into our buildings, nor were they recruiting women and children to blow themselves up in United States or Western European cities. Had they done so the talking would have gone by the board quickly enough.

Surah:

"The Stern Gang murdered British officials and soldiers! People don't talk about that."

Even if this is true at least the intended targets were military in nature - not innocent civilians. Islamo-nazi's relish taking as many innocent civilians as possible (Muslim as well as anyone else who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time). How many Jewish women and children suicide bombers have attacked Muslim countries?

Surah:

"Israel has the bomb."

If this is true I'm glad Israel has nuclear capability and not Iran or Syria. I doubt very much that they would show the restraint Israel has in using nuclear weapons.

Surah:

"Jim Crow, the KKK, Neo-nazis, has anybody ever been tried and convicted for lyniching?"

Yes, absolutely. Not as many as should have been, but definitely people have been tried and convicted for such crimes. How many people in Iran or Syria have gotten away with doing the very things you accuse Christians of? What happens to Muslims who covert to Christianity in Islamic nations? Not very pretty.


11 posted on 08/14/2006 1:50:04 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

Here's a blog post that deals with the issue of Islamic Fascism, very interesting!

http://catholicpublius.blogspot.com


12 posted on 08/14/2006 12:55:33 PM PDT by Publius64
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