I like the Islamobarbarism line. It is fitting.
Your personal ranting are not News.
You're never going to be able to sell "War on Jihad", any more than you would be able to sell "War on Islam". Jihad is too integral to Islam, it would be like trying to differentiate between "Christ" and "Repentance".
We can target the aggressive aspect of Islam, and teach it to stay within the lines of the law, but trying to attack the concept of jihad (since jihad actually means more than suicide bombing) will be clearly seen as an attack on all of Islam.
Let's just be happy with Islamofascism. It suitably explains the problem.
Any Moslem who came out and said something about "the correct way to worship Mohammad", for example, would probably be murdered where he stood.
They don't worship Mohammad.
On the other hand, Islamofascism is a very good word for the Moslem Reformation that's been underway for the last 100 years.
Little did scholars in the field anticipate that Moslems would end up thinking fullblown fascism, sans the Nazi cross and so forth, would be a good idea.
The Falangists in Lebanon are probably doing cartwheels these days ~ savoring their success in convincing their Moslem brothers that they, the Christians, in Falange, were correct all along.
This is probably going to get a whole big bunch of these guys dead in the long run.
The irrelevance is powerful in you.
fas·cism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fshzm)
n.
often Fascism
1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
2. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government. Oppressive, dictatorial control.
Islamofascism works for me.
So true. No one has the nerve to call this what it is in this PC world we live in.
It's a war against islam, and those that believe in it. It's been done before. Will be done again.
Yeah, I think the term is appropriate.
Splitting hairs on definitions seems like a silly academic exercise at this point in the game. Nothing is identical to something similar used to describe it unless they are the same thing.
Good post.
Why are the bulk of the forces fighting, and dying, on OUR side in the War on Jihadism, Muslim Afghanis, Pakistanis and Iraqis? Bother to notice the Kurds are Muslims?
Is it not sad how rude factual reality so explodes the shrieking hysterics of the "We are at War With Islam" Know Nothings?
So sad, so true.
Historically, Fascism has been viewed as a radical totalitarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-anarchism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism and having strong leader and central control (ala , Germany, Italy & Spain in the '30's).
However, it seems that we cannot get our heads around radical Islamism with it's franchised decentralized organizational structure where small groups of Islamists can take independent . Nor do we seem to have figured out how to fight this multi-headed hydra - other than to fight it WW2 style and that's probably why many are more comfortable in using WW2 enemy terms for the current enemy.
If that doesn't work we can call them Japs... ;)
we also have to worry about the rise of the Party of Hate
Hear, hear! VERY well done.
But ideas themselves are never a threat. It isn't until they're packed into a motive vehicle that they collide with the real world. I can plot to blow up buildings all day, and until I put the ingredients together and deliver the explosives to the site, all I've done is indulged what Freud called wishful thinking.
We can't defeat the ideas that drive Islam. They are nearly as ancient and as revered as those behind Christianity. But we can exterminate the vehicles that carry these infernal ideas into our offices, subways, and airliners. We can close down the hate factories, contain the filth that spews from the mosques, and segregate the potential offenders. And ultimately, we can let the vermin exterminate each other, the way they've been doing almost since Islam was born.
But first we have to stop them from killing US. And we do that by killing THEM first.
The enemy here is "islamofascism".
Make no mistake about it, the term is absolutely precise.
We aren't fighting islam, but instead a amalgam of islam with socialistic fascism. Islam is just a tool of these fascists to recruit poor superstitious fools in the Middle East, the subcontinent, London, Marin County and elsewhere to blow themselves up.
Guys like Bin Ladin and Ahmadinejad are truly just atheistic communists stealing that religions terminology and myths. They don't believe in the 72 virgins or any of that.
What they do believe in is world conquest and socialism. Did you listen to Ahmadinejad's interview Sunday? He was touting things like socialized medicine and "concern" for the American economy , basically the same old socialist talking points we've heard from others for a long time.
If Islam were disproved as a religion, these vermin could make a seamless transition to scientific Trotskyism or other forms of fascism in a New York minute.
You agree with me. :~ )
There was a discussion a couple of days ago on FR about what we should call them other than islamofascists.
I said jihadists.
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