Boston Globe: Politicians Pairing “Islam” and “Fascism” is the Real Danger….

Posted on January 21, 2008

The dhimmis at the Globe (a NYT owned paper) bowing to their Islamist masters…..

Islamofascism’s ill political wind- Boston Globe

THE UNFOLDING presidential elections are laying bare what the real dangers are in the new American condition. They come not from our political divisiveness, economic uncertainty or military insecurity – but from our religious character as a people, which, in this case, is not positive. Religious intolerance marks one candidate debate after another – a sweeping denigration of Islam. And it is going to backfire.

The code word “Islamofascism” has become a staple of rhetoric. It braces the talk not only of pundits, but of all the major Republican candidates – from the tough guy at one end, Rudy Giuliani, who lambastes Democrats for not using the word or its equivalent, to the “nice” candidate at the other end, Mike Huckabee, who defines Islamofascism as “the greatest threat this country [has] ever faced.”

The pairing of “Islam” and “fascism” has no parallel in characterizations of extremisms tied to other religions, although the defining movements of fascism were linked to Catholicism – indirectly under Benito Mussolini in Italy, explicitly under Francisco Franco in Spain. Protestant and Catholic terrorists in Northern Ireland, both deserving the label “fascist,” never had their religions prefixed to that word. Nor have Hindu extremists in India, nor Buddhist extremists in Sri Lanka.

In contrast to the way militant zealotries of other religions have been perceived, there is a broad conviction, especially among many conservative American Christians, that the inner logic of Islam and fascism go together. Political candidates appeal to those Christians by defining the ambition of Islamofascists in language that makes prior threats from, say, Hitler or Stalin seem benign. The point is that there is a deep religious prejudice at work, and when politicians adopt its code, they make it worse.

The issue is larger. The intellectual and moral paralysis of all major candidates from both parties on the subject of the war in Iraq is mainly a result of their religion-sponsored imprisonment in the Islamofascism paradigm, whether they use the word or not. By emphasizing that the goal of Muslim terrorists is to wage what John McCain calls a “transcendent” war against “us,” candidates miss the most important fact about the conflicts in Iraq and throughout the Muslim world – that militant Muslim zealots are primarily at war with their own people, most of whom they regard as decadent apostates.

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