"Tom Fleischman" wrote in message
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In article 8nU5d.125586$D%.2687@attbi_s51, Jay Honeck
wrote:

To understand this, he'd need to know what the islam is really about
and
what fascism was really about. Both is asking a little too much from
Jay. (And neither a quick google search nor watching Fox news will
help
in this case.)

Well, fair enough -- educate me.

What don't I know (as a college grad with a minor in history) about
Fascism
and Islam?

Simply put Fascism is a system whereby the govenment promotes corporate
business interests over the interests of it's citizens combined with a
media which lies to the people in support of both the govenment and the
business interests. This form of govenment is usually totalitarian,
although it doesn't have to be, and is fiercely nationalistic in
nature.


Baloney. Fascism implies strong centralized governmental control over
business and production. Private corporate business interests are threatened
by Fascistic governments. Most corporations will be nationalized.

Islam is a religion. It advocates neither business interests nor
nationalalism. The only thing that the two could possibly have in
common is a totalitarian leadership.

To combine these terms to describe any group of people or "enemy" is
oxymoronic.

Not if the group is using religion to promote Fascism. In this case the
description of Islamofascist is very apt. These people want strong central,
even totalitarian, government control, are highly nationalistic, are
militarily aggressive, and deeply religious, though it is a perverted,
twisted form of Islam. Even the supposedly secular Saddam Hussein constantly
used Islamic references in his attempts to motivate the people to war.
Hussein openly admires Hitler, as does bin Laden. These particular Fascists
are also extremely anti-Jewish (they are themselves Semites, so calling them
anti-Semitic would be odd). Any examination of Iraq, Iran, Syria and
Chechnya will show numerous social and economic parallels to pre-war Germany
and Italy, including widespread use of private armies, blaming Jews and the
United States for all the world's problems and their problems specifically,
identification of the leader with state religion, etc.