> Question to all who are supporters of the "we must
> support anyone who is against U.S. imperialism" school
> of thought, and I mean this as a serious question, not
> a rhetorical one or one meant to trap you in order to
> prove you are wrong or something: does this mean you
> also give support to European Neo-Fascist structures
> which also oppose the U.S. imperialism and Zionism?
> If not, why not?
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The Islamists are fighting to free their homeland of foreign occupation or
the threat of same, which conforms to the principle of national
self-determination, which I support. The objective of European fascists is
to ensure the subjegation of coloured citizens and immigrants in their
countries in the name of white Christian civilization, which I oppose.
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Or do you disagree with Tariq Ali
> that these movements are equivalent to political
> Islam?
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I think Tariq Ali is appropriately trying to correct an adaptation to
Islamic fundamentalism by a part of the anti-imperialist left, such as we
have seen on this list. But I think he would also agree that, while Islamist
ideology has right-wing characteristics, the European fascist movements
place a much greater emphasis on race and ethnicity than does Islam, which
is actually among the most ecumenical and multiracial of creeds. What unites
Muslims is a common religion rather than the belief they constitute a
distinct ethnic or racial group. From this persepective, I think the
Zionists, who have subtly tried to transform Judaism from a religion to an
"ethnicity", are closer to the racist ideology of the European fascists. The
followers of Zeev Jabotinsky - the ideological forebears of the Israeli
right - were quite explicit about this connection.
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