Islamic Fascism

Donald Rumsfeld suffers from moral and intellectual confusion. He says that by opposing the war protestors are appeasing a new type of fascism. Islamic Fundamentalism is without a doubt a threat to the western world, but it is not fascism. It doesn’t even hold up as a metaphor. There is no state or regime to appease.

Fascism by definition is a totalitarian form of philosophy of government that glorifies the state and assigns to the state control over every aspect of national life. These are distinctions that disqualify the usage of the word “Islamofascism”

Rumsfeld need to go back to school and study his history before he tries to deliver a lesson to the rest of us.

Terrorists should not be ignored, or appeased, but let’s get it right; calling them fascists doesn’t help, it is merely inaccurate. Associating the religion of Islam with fascism is both offensive and inaccurate. Fascism is an expression of extreme right wing politics. Political ideologies derived from fascism have been violently opposed to Islamism.

Fascism is nationalistic and Islam is hostile to nationalism. Fundamentalism is transnational and appeals to believers of all nations and races across national boundaries. There is no idea of racial purity. Fascism in Europe was a secular movement.

The term “Islamofascism” is a term of military propaganda, full of sound and fury, crafted to produce hysteria, destroy all sense of proportion, signifying nothing.



Marlowe
2006