[lbo-talk] nearly half rebel fighters are jihadists

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 17 05:33:40 PDT 2013


Gar: "Syria is culturally Muslim, so if non-Jihadist Muslims and secular groups combined represent more than 50% of the armed groups that is good news"

[WS:] Not at all. It is like saying that because Germany was predominantly Christian, the Sturmabteilung composed of Christians is good news, or because China was mainly Communist in the 1960, the Red Guards being mainly Communist is good news, or because Russia is predominantly Orthodox, Russian skinheads being mainly Orthodox is good news.

These pseudo-religious movements have nothing to do with religion of the majority - they are "Catonist" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catonism) ideologies and movements manufactured by reactionary political elites to combat liberal/democratic opposition. I write more about it here http://wsokol.blogspot.com/2013/09/islamism-vs-islam.html

-- Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."



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