It's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!

October 22 kicks off Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, time to take a hard look in the mirror and ask, "Am I an Islamo-Fascist and just not aware of it?"

If you're not sure, get out your copy of The Ultimate Counterterrorist Home Companion (or buy one) and turn to Chapter 18: Are There Terrorists in Your Own Family? which starts off with the section, Are You A Terrorist? After answering the questions, you'll know if you are, aren't, or (most likely) are a "person of interest." More soul searching will reveal if you're an Islamo-Fascist terrorist, which, frankly, you probably are.

It's hard to know for sure without consulting David Horowitz, because fascism and Islam aren't that closely related. It would be easier if he'd come up with Islamo-Theocracy, because then if you find yourself yearning restlessly late at night for the return of the Caliphate, uncertain how to behave without guidance from the religious police, you'd know you're an Islamo-Theocrat. But to be an Islamo-Fascist you also have to think that the best way to get those religious police patrolling your street is to blow yourself up in a crowded place, and even then, it's not easy to make the connection between yourself and the Nazis marching into Poland.

But that's what Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is all about: asking the difficult questions, and turning yourself in, if you are one. So go out to the rallies, sign the petitions, and if you're just too busy, at least buy The Ultimate Counterterrorist Home Companion and give yourself a thorough interrogation.

Comments

[Myrrhis]

(I'm going to regret doing this . . )

First, I in no way subscribe to any theories of global Zionist conspiracies or Illuminati.

That said, is it possible, just possible, that someone of Jewish heritage (Horowitz) might see a threat being posed by Islamic radicals to Israel (among other targets) and protected by auto-theocracies (lol . .new word!) as being Islamo-fascist?

I personally hate the term. I think it too easily lends itself to being used as a blanket term for any Islamic group in opposition to the West and, especially, the US. But perhaps it has resonance with certain people; a resonsnce that I don't understand.

Surely we can come up with something better.

Amy

[Myrrhis]

erm, make that 2nd "resonsnce" into resonance . . . spelling, bleah.

[avergejoe]

Where are the hate crime laws when you need them?

[cognate]

Fascist means "bad guy". That's all us patriots need to know.

[brooklyncitizen]

Below is a link that is worth checking out. An interview with media critic Jack Shaheen on his new film "Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies A People"

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/19/144225

Since Arabs are semites we should broaden the term "anti-semite" to include the villification of Arab peoples. Maybe this will give us pause....

[Liberterna]

Wow, this is eye-opening.

Somehow I understand why they don't like us and can't really blame them. We've painted them not just as inferior (like we used to paint blacks) but utterly evil without a shred of evidence or supporting history.

Sad state of affairs.

[realitytrumpsbull]

Time to get out the dictionary again...

Main Entry: fas·cism
Pronunciation: ˈfa-ËŒshi-zÉ"m also ˈfa-ËŒsi-
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Date: 1921
1often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

[wldnswmmr]

I've always wondered how the Right came up with that annoyingly inapt moniker for Muslim terrorists. Fascism was an Italian invention involving the integration of government, the military and big business into a "tissue" or fascia of power. Totalitarianism soon followed, and what Hitler was running was a straight ahead police state, although he borrowed the Italian term. But what could any of this possibly have to do with Islamic terrorism? I think actually it was the always trendy and usually unhelpful Tom Friedman who gave the word its currency, thus adding to the confusion he sows among the reading public on a regular basis.

[peterg76]

I assume globalization-fascism awareness will get equal time....