Who are the real fascists in Middle East?
While it’s clear who the Islamic fundamentalists are, who are the fascists? There can be no denying Muslims have carried out terrorist attacks, but how is one supposed to describe what the US and UK in particular are doing throughout the Middle East?
Apart from a growing tendency to try to link Islam and Nazism in the popular psyche, obviously Bush and his ilk never stop to consider how their actions in this regard might be perceived in the Muslim world.
Can anyone seriously believe that any government established in Iraq will be anything other than a western puppet?
One thing is sure: it is far more important to the US and UK that any Middle East ‘democracy’ is pro-west than that it is truly democratic. Proof of this can be found in their support for the repressive and totalitarian House of Saud and simultaneous rejection of the Palestinian people’s choice of a Hamas government. To even the most casual observer, it is clear that Bush and his ilk hate the way of life in the Middle East and regard these societies as backward, medieval and socially inferior. Social Darwinism is alive and well as US and British soldiers bring the benefits of civilisation to the ‘savages’ of Iraq and Afghanistan down the barrel of a gun.
There was the usual chatter after the foiled terror attack last week about the need for Muslims to fit in with the secular society in which they live in the west. This would be fair enough except that the west expects Muslims to fit in with the secular western model even when they are living in their own countries.
To this end, Bush and his cronies have a fascist tendency to impose their peculiar brand of selective democracy, which is nothing more than neo-colonialism, on Muslim societies, laying waste to those who decline to embrace ‘liberation’ with open arms.
Nick Folley
36 Ardcarrig
Carrigaline
Co Cork
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