...but Revolutionary Islam is not the Third Reich.
Embracing the empire
By Ian Buruma"But the term "Islamofascism" was not coined for nothing. It invites us to see a big part of the Islamic world as a natural extension of Nazism. Saddam Hussein, who was hardly an Islamist, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is, are often described as natural successors to Adolf Hitler. And European weakness, not to mention the "treason" of its liberal scribes, paving the way to an Islamist conquest of Europe ("Eurabia") is seen as a ghastly echo of the appeasement of the Nazi threat." (read more!)
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For a guy, and his father before him, who had starved and slaughtered over a million innocent Muslims, to play victim to Islamofacism strikes me as a utterly disturbing. This is like Hitler’s “fear” of Jews and the ensuing bloodletting. But every genocidal imperialist needs a whopper of lie to justify grand acts of brutality. FUCK THE EVIL EMPIRE.
Mira: there one key difference between Bush and Hitler. Hitler told the lies then committed a holocaust. Bush committed a holocaust then told a lie. Other than that I really can’t see much of a difference. If we are lucky, the ending will not be much different either.
another way to keep the people in fear, and exploit it to imperialist interests.