>>>>Anyone care to explain why podheretz's comments are correct?
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http://www.antiwar.com/orig/sahimi.php?articleid=11762>>>
>>>I don't have time to get into this right now, but I will say Sahimi's article is so off point as to be ludicrous. The short-hand "Islamo-fascism" has been defined very carefully by those who use it. The arguement Sahimi uses by insisting there is a requirement for a dictator and "racism" is a straw-man.
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>>>Any study of people like Qutb or Azzam makes the issue a lot clearer. Khomeini, despite being a Shiite, was a hero to Zawahiri and his Al-Jihad movement.
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>>>If you actually care about this stuff beyond the political talking points level it would be a good idea to expand your reading beyong DailyKOS, CrooksandLiars and Antiwar.com. ( Right wing websites are just as bad, I'm just saying that serious policy issues are being reduced to political bumper stickers and it gets things so muddied the point gets missed. Whether or not you call it Islamofascism there is a very powerful movement in the Islamic world that is much more mainstream than National Socialism was in 1929. To dismiss it just to take a swat at political opponents is short-sighted - and exactly the weakness that will be exploited. )
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>>Ludicrous?
>>Did you read Podheretz's bananas ?
>>That IS ludicrous.
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>>Comparing badly microwaved Islam radicals (Al-quaeda) with Nazie movement is ludicrous.
>>Comparing Ahmadinejad/Iran to Hitler/Nazie Germany is ludicrous.
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>>Iran as state that does not recognise Israel as state.
>>Hitler did not recognise Jewish right to life.
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>>These are fundamentally different things.
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>>Now, bananas like Podheretz's article try to present these two things as equal. But are they really ?
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>I think if you read the article carefully you'll see that was not the analogy.
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>I am not in complete agreement with all of Podhoretz's points, but I think the characterization of his argument is intellectually false.
I did not try to make 'characterisation' I simply overreacted :)
But what he wrote in it really does not make any sense to me.
