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Remember Those Iraqi Benchmarks? Well, Guess What…

June 17, 2008 - 8:30 am - by Abe Greenwald
Roque Nuevo
2008-06-19 07:52:09

Krispos 42,

Fascism is notoriously difficult to define, mainly because it’s an anti intellectual movement and as such does not generate much “theory”. Moreover, there is no such thing as a “fascist ideology” apart from its manifestations in specific cases. In other words it takes on different characteristics depending on the nation it rises in. Even so, can you explain why today’s Islamic fascism is not “subverting and controlling” religion in the same way Franco did? It’s impossible to understand “What we are facing is theocratical Muslim states that may or may not have some trappings of a representative government, not authoritarian states that have some trappings of Islam.” What on Earth are you talking about?

Can you think of an example of a theocratical Christian state in the last 200 years?

Can you think of an example of a Republican of the religious right who “calls for national unity based on religion, nationalism, militarism, autocracy, corporatism, tolitariansim, and the unitary executive?”

I didn’t think so.

That’s why you sound so stupid.