Soren wrote on Aug 29
th, 2013 at 9:40pm:
Winston Smith wrote on Aug 29
th, 2013 at 9:24pm:
freediver wrote on Aug 29
th, 2013 at 9:04pm:
Does that include any of the ones I suggested?
The items you listed aren't mutually exclusive to Islam, you will find many parallels in other cultures.
But all those pathologies come together only in Islam.
Quote:They are only issues because targetted propaganda with an agenda made them so. My original statement about not buying into Islamic boogeymen based on the hype surrounding the subject on this forum is accurate. The disproportionate anti-Islam propaganda posts on here are the result of an agenda of a percentage of the users on this special interests board. The subjects enjoys overexposure here for that reason. The reason being that people with an agenda against Islam are using every opportunity to churn out anti-Islamic propaganda.
The 'agenda' againt Islamofascism is the same as against every other type of fascism.
Do you privilege or prefer Islamofascism over other types?
Quote:The is also the case on the world stage, any group could be targetted like this as an exercise in vilification, it just happens to be Islam in this case. To make comparisons becomes abstract and open to semantics lawyering. 50 years ago it was the Soviet 'Evil Empire', now it's Islamofascism.
Exactly. Hopefully Islamofascism will go the way of the Soviets and the Nazis - don't you think?
I will only respond to plain questions.
1. Islamofascism is a boogeyman of Western propaganda, it's not a real political movement. The 'agenda' against Islam on a global level is a propaganda exercise being conducted in parallel with military exercises. It is being conducted as a part of the US plan to maintain global military and economic hegemony.
2. What does my opinion on actual political movements of the past got to do with a boogeyman designed to keep people in fear and compliant?
3. What does my opinion on the validity of global political movements have to do with a made up boogeyman?
The reactiona against Islam as a focal point for terrorism is as ridiculous as someone invading America and calling resistance Christianofascism because the majority of people who participate identify as Christian purely by virtue of their background and location.
The two things are completely unconnected, there IS a Western agenda regarding military involvement in the Middle East, common elements of religion and ethnicity have been extrapolated into an easily digested idea of Islam = 'all the bad things including the last major boogeyman we sold you to show you we meant business: FASCISM!'.