C’mon, kiddies, let’s put out the decorations and bake a cake!
Someone is actually paying Rick “Man-on-Dog” Santorum to speak to universities, and not to mock him, surprisingly enough:
“I am enormously grateful for the opportunity to speak at three of Pennsylvania’s great universities. While the sounds of opposition to the war are heard frequently on our college campuses, I plan to offer a perspective our students rarely hear - my views on who our true enemies are, what they believe, and why it is so important to defeat them,” said Santorum.
“Rick Santorum has been the most courageous and outspoken public figure in America alerting all of us to the true nature of the enemy we face,” said David Horowitz, founder of the Freedom Center, and organizer of “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” which includes events at over 100 schools across America.
Oh….this is organized by David Horowitz. ‘Nuff said.
As an actual college professor, Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, has noted, the Islamo-Fascism label makes no sense:
Fascism is not even a very good description of the ideology of most Muslim fundamentalists. Most fascism in the Middle East has been secular in character, as with Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party. Fascism involves extreme nationalism and most often racism. Muslim fundamentalist movements reject the nation-state as their primary loyalty and reject race as a basis for political action or social discrimination. Fascists exalt the state above individual rights or the rule of law. Muslim fundamentalists exalt Islamic law above the utilitarian interests of the state. Fascism exalts youth and a master race above the old and the “inferior” races. Muslim fundamentalists would never speak this way.
Remind me again how many times these neo-cons have been right? Oh that’s right, zero. I’m sure parents will be thrilled to know their tuition dollars are going towards instilling ignorance, hate and fear in their children. Will Bunch has the whole sordid affair.
No Trackbacks To “It’s “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week”!“
Islamo-Fascist of the Decade award winner is George W. Bush.
The Saudis couldn’t be prouder of their man.
Chicken-little?
Frist! Always wanted to say that!
I have yet to hear of any economic theory coming from these fanatics, so fascism is out of place.
They don’t want a blurred corporate/government state but a theocracy anywho.
Am I supposed to take a Islamo-Fascist out to lunch???
Hey College Republicans: 2004 called. It wants its idea for a special week back.
They’re bringing one of these asses here to Dartmouth. We’re getting together a Middle Eastern and African Studies contingent to go and ask him the tough questions, though somehow I think that, like dealing with Creationists, we will be met with ad hominem, ad nauseam and possibly a Horowitzite favorite tactic: deliberate deflection and shoutdown attempts coordinated with audience confederates. Our “guy” is Robert Spencer, who wrote the “politically incorrect guide to Islam” and some other ridiculous xenophobic screeds.
Cheney and the neo-con fascists are using the paleo-fascist big lie technique to deflect the public from their plot to establish a neo-fascist regime in the US by labeling the Islamic Fundamentalists as Islamofascists. As the article shows there is no connection between the Islamic Fundamentalists, the neo-fascists’ enemy of record, and the fascist principles that they are putting in place in the US in place of the Constitution.
Translation: I’m going to present my list of made up shit to be afraid of and see if they dance.
I’m assuming “islamo-fascist” is the new term for republican conservative.
I’m more inclined to want to promote Zionist treason awareness week as far as Mr. Horowitz is concerned.
“Islamo-fascist awareness week?”
I would say that Orwell would be proud of the term, but he wouldn’t be; he would roll his eyes in exasperation and futility.
It’s not so surprising that Santorum is speaking at universities.
It’s not surprising because Crooks and Liars, Americablog, DailyKos and other left leaning blogs have done a terrible job at convincing people how bad Santorum really is.
A lot of times it’s just complaining and bickering and other rather childish arguments against these neo-con assholes. Often times the arguments are actually contradictory.
I have only the left to blame for not making their case strong enough to make people realize the evils of the neo-cons. Their efforts have been too weak for too long.
I mean, after all the bullshit, after all the complaining by the left, my phone calls are STILL being wiretapped, my rights are STILL being violated, and the standard of living of the average American is STILL declining.
I’m afraid that the left is completely useless today, and I think we need a fresh perspective, because the status quo has OBVIOUSLY been a complete and utter DISASTER.
And next week is “Christofascist Awareness Week”.
Oops, they messed up. Next week is Halloween week, that’s the time to tell scary stories, isn’t it?
Are any of the Republican candidates joining in? Damn it, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if they did.
The promising part of this is that they’re giving the impression at least they believe fascist to be a bad trait.
This from the king of Reslug sicko’s who brought his dead baby home so his other chilldren to talk and play with the body.
David Horowitz, Jihad video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDsEGJcfXE
The man is a complete nutcase spreading fear for his warped political purposes.
I hate to say we might be our own worst enemy. We are the fascists. This homeland has fallen so far down the **** hole.
It’s the Reslugs favorite week of celebration.
“I need more welfare checks!”-David Horowitz to Sarah Scaife Foundation
Other guests
I won’t link to it.
Rick Santorum ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
If he’s so outspoken, why hasn’t he been out speaking anywhere (except for Fox News). These are the first appearances I’ve heard of since he was courageously booted from the Senate.
Stop Big Media
Anything that links Ann Coulter and Rick Santorum together in thought just makes me feel sick inside. Anyone who believes a damned word either of them say needs care at a mental facility.
gee! i thought it was delusional fascist bush week.
While we focus on the threat overseas from Muslims who all want to kill us and enslave our wimmin’….
I’m not seeing any articles that discuss the California wildfires and the California National Guard in the same story.
Maybe Blackwater needs to be sent back to the states to shoot the survivors?
The majority of the repugnacans don’t know what fascism means and don’t care. They don’t want to be educated they just want to be white, I mean, right.
Well, I certainly agree that Horowitz and Santorum are idiots. However, I don’t think Juan Cole is helping much here. Has he never heard of the Caliphate? Whatever you want to call the ideology underpinning Al Qaeda, the fact is they reject the modern nation-states of the Middle East, but not the idealized Caliphate - an idealized Islamic super-state for which they are constantly (if not very successfully) striving.
And as to racism, I really think it is dehumanization that is at the core of “fascism,” more than racism per se. Whether that dehumanization pivots around racial differences, as with the Nazis, or religious differences, as with Al Qaeda, seems beyond the point to me.
Anyway, I think they could all do a little more analysis and homework on the issue, of which I’ve attempted a start here:
www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
Here’s the candidate all the “values-voters” have been dreaming of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_D7WtOHZd0
Yes, Ms. Coulter is speaking here at Tulane tonight, though torrential rains may mess with attendance some. That and a dearth of extremely stupid people (this can be a problem at universities).
I’m thinking about organizing a “Christo-fascist Awareness Week.” Remember, all the leading fascists of history, from Hitler and Mussolini on down, where christians.
Coincidence? I think not.
David Horowitz is sponsoring this fucktardery. It’d be interesting to ask him if he’s ready to be ‘perfected’ yet.
I can only pray there will be video from some pies that hit their marks from these ‘Two Minutes Hate’ rallies.
The right like to throw out extreme words like fascist, Nazi and commie all the time without knowing the real difference between the two ideologies. Orcinus however can always set you straight on who the real fascist are threatening America;
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2.....human.html
Bill @ 28:
You could have started by researching who Juan Cole is first before making such a completely stupid comment.
The United Iraqi Alliance, in a report to the Iraqi National Assembly on Sunday, said that a probe launched by the parliament into the incident had proved that the US army helped terrorists attack the Shia village of Jizani al-Imam on October 15.
At least 26 civilians, including women and children, were killed in the raid, one of the bloodiest massacres since the US invasion of Iraq.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4570
Juan Cole is the man! I was lucky enough to take his America and Middle Eastern Wars class two years ago. Horowitz represents everything that’s wrong with the States’ foreign policy right now. People like Cole, who have invested their whole lives in trying to understand the West’s role in the Islamic world, should have the platform currently occupied by Horowitz, Bill Kristol, et al. That it’s the other way around is, well, just plain wrong.
Wikipedia had this to say about Fascism:
Hmm, that does sound very familiar…but I don’t think it’s much like Islamic fundamentalism.
The whole point to the term Islamo-Fascist is to defuse and deflect the ability of the left to accurately pin the term ‘Fascism’ on the current Republican Party, its adherents, like Horowitz and Sanctimonius-er-Santorum, and the corporate billionaires that fund them.
We all hear about George Soros, but we never hear about their money-men, like the recently-defunct Olin Fund, the Bradley boys, Coors (all relatives) as well as Dick Mellon Scaife of the Arkansas Project and Rev Sun Myung Moon, who publishes the Washington Times and Insight magazine, as well as funding Horowitz’s operation.
Don’t Be Terrorized
You’re more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder
Horowitz is a certified nut case.
He reminds me of the typical Woody Allen character roller skating through Central Park wearing oven mitts and a surgical mask screaming about “Islamofascism”.
It can only end badly…
Just another example of “Godwin’s Law”. The use of the word “fascism” is just a very simplistic way to demonize your enemy. Especially, when you have (or desire) little knowledge the underlying details of the situation. Just bring out the white hats and black hats.
Reminder! This week is also Bigfoot Awareness Week, a very important event reminding Americans that Islamo-Fascism is not the only fictional enemy we face.
Of course, you Sasquatch-hugging bipedal cryptozoology-enablers are probably going to deny that the threat from Bigfoot is real.
ATTENTION ATTENTION: for christ’s sake …there is no such thing as “islamo fascism”…The frightened right wing goose stepping nazis made it up. Now there is neocon fascism …that’s real because you’re living it today in America…WELCOME to GERMERICA.
I love their speakers: bigots seeking to sell books! Now THAT’S reliable. Seriously though, what is it about fascism that these gutter-balls don’t understand. Fundamentalist Islam is about as far away from actual “fascism” as anything I can think of. On the other hand, the brand of white, male, Christian supremecy advocated by these very same mouth-breathers is pretty much in lock step with fascism as it is historically understood.
Never mind. History and reality don’t really play into their agenda.
Don’t forget:next week is “Man Boobs Awareness Week”.
David Horowitz is speaking soon at Emory in Georgia…
Legalize @ 43:
Its simply another classic case of projection-a game the wingnutz never tire of.
The truth is,America and its allies have been purposely installing and supporting Islamic Fundamentalism for decades.The LAST thing they want is for actual Democracy to take hold in the Middle East.
islamofascism makes perfect sense to idiots. no one ever had to tell them what it meant. they just had to be terrified that it was the all encompassing evil. what maroons we are. baaa
Harry Scrote @ 45:
The Emory bored?
I thought you might find this interesting–I’m a student at Northeastern University, one of the schools at which “events are being planned” according to one of the website linked above. Just now is the first I’ve heard of this. There is nothing noticeable going on here on this subject, no advertising, no fliers, nothing. Not even a few students handing out pamphlets. I think most of the “event planning” at these schools is one kid in his dorm room they’ve been emailing. I’d love to know how things are at some of the other schools “at which events are being planned.”
You’d think that the Republicans, who’s rise to power was achieved through inflamatory wedge issues and a rabid sense of nationalism, dependant on symbols of ‘The Homeland’ like bumper stickers and flag lapel pins, and relies on whipping up hatred against certain groups like gays, athiests, or ‘liberals’ to stay in power would be afraid to invoke images of fascism. Especially now that they’ve created a network of secret prisons, suspended Habeas Corpus, and organized a paramilitary police force that wears BLACK UNIFORMS.
But then again, didn’t somebody once say that when fascism comes to The United States, it will be called ‘anti-fascism.’