Talk:Islamofascism
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Iran has stated they want to destroy America and Israel.--Colonel Sanders (talk) 02:15, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
- It gets way more complicated than that. Read. Learn. Grow. P-FosterCan't we talk about this, baby?
02:18, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the link. I'll read it, provided it wasn't vandalized by junior high kids.--Colonel Sanders (talk) 02:19, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
- Leading professor on the subject, not a junior high student P-FosterCan't we talk about this, baby?
02:23, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. I didn't realize the possibility of a mistranslation.--Colonel Sanders (talk) 02:30, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
- Leading professor on the subject, not a junior high student P-FosterCan't we talk about this, baby?
- Thanks for the link. I'll read it, provided it wasn't vandalized by junior high kids.--Colonel Sanders (talk) 02:19, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
- It gets way more complicated than that. Read. Learn. Grow. P-FosterCan't we talk about this, baby?
[edit] Fascistic Islam
I agree that this is partly drummed up by US neocons, but shouldn't we say something about fascistic Muslims, because they certainly do exist... albeit not in the form dreamed up by the Americans. Islamic Fundamentalism can certainly come very close--Albannach (talk) 17:41, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- Isn't this word just an Islamic form of clerical fascism? If so then it's is as real and interchangeable as any other theocratic ideology and we should embrace its use. This wiki's rational POV tends to oppose the war in Iraq but the term predates that war, being first used (according to Christopher Hitchens), "...in 1990 in Britain's Independent newspaper by Scottish writer Malise Ruthven, who was writing about the way in which traditional Arab dictatorships used religious appeals in order to stay in power." The three talking points given in this article as reasons for why this term is fabricated for a war are debatable as well; this article says the relationship between Islam and fascism is tenuous...really? I see a lot of similarities between fascist regimes and Islamic fundamentalism. You say, "Islamic form of authoritarian conservatism", I say "Islamofascism". --emc [TALK]