Re: [Marxism] The immigration thread

[Barney Katz <taxi4marx@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- rrubinelli <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Such a
> phrase is "Islamist
> filth."  The fact that a  "Marxist" uses those terms
> does not change the
> triggerering, and I do mean trigger, actions of the
> phrase-- the
> triggering action of general, indiscriminate attacks
> and justification
> of attacks on people of the Islamic faith


Messrs. rrubinelli and Proyect,

I certainly wouldn't be the first to use rhetoric
here, and I would appreciate if you didn't read into
my words what wasn't there. 'Islamist' and 'Islamism',
as you well know refers to the theory and practice of
political Islam. 'Islamic' refers to the religion. I
clearly wrote 'Islamist'. I was clearly referring to
Islamist militants and their methods of killing
workers on the job, etc.

Perhaps I could have used less emotive terminology but
I equate Islamism with fascism (is that a crime on
this site, too?). Islamism rejects modernity, rejects
Marxism, rejects democracy, rejects equality for
women. It's backward-looking, expecting to find the
guide to the perfect life in the Koranic writings and
the glorious history of Islam. Its financiers are
businessmen who figure they'd be better off allied
with the mullahs than with western imperialists.
There's nothing progressive about it, and the left in
Iraq hate them, too.

If I ever say fascist filth when describing the Nazi
filth, is this okay?

BK


                
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