tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post115576876329271547..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: More on the Pernicious Bushoid Rhetoric of "Islamofascism"Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-1156725528054890612006-08-27T17:38:00.000-07:002006-08-27T17:38:00.000-07:00Have any of you read Katha Pollitt's story, The Tr...Have any of you read Katha Pollitt's story, <I>The Trouble with Bush's 'Islamofascism'</I>, which was posted August 26, 2006 on the AlterNet at http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/40850/ ?VDThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01496647346219341625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-1156098568475997642006-08-20T11:29:00.000-07:002006-08-20T11:29:00.000-07:00Another little addendum:Isn't "Islamofascism" as g...Another little addendum:<BR/><BR/>Isn't "Islamofascism" as goofily imprecise a conflation as "Islamocommunist" would be to describe the same people?Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16967233497214731240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-1156096422187182822006-08-20T10:53:00.000-07:002006-08-20T10:53:00.000-07:00I'd like to echo these concerns by mentioning the ...I'd like to echo these concerns by mentioning the obvious points that:<BR/><BR/>1. The closest thing to fascism in the Mideast has been the authoritarian, if not totalitarian, Baathist regimes of Iraq and Syria.<BR/><BR/>2. The theocratic regimes and their friends (Iran, Saudi Arabia (and its U.S. enablers), Taliban Afghanistan, al Qaida, et alia) are quite disticnt from fascism.<BR/><BR/>3. Bush desperately needs to obscure the difference between Islamic theocratism and fascism as part of his efforts to keep bamboozling folks into believing that al Qaida and Saddam Hussein ever had anythinig but contempt for each other.<BR/><BR/>4. Bush also can't use the word "theocracy" to characterize al Qaida's aims because it would offend his Christian theocratist base, and might remind some people that Dominion Theologians have more in common with al Qaida than either does with Baathist authoritarians (or with the Nazi fascists that Prescott Bush's Standard Oil buddies used to do so much business with during World War II, come to think of it.)Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16967233497214731240noreply@blogger.com