Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Relearning with today's totalitarians what we should have known all along By Sol Sanders

Through the din of the cut and thrust of Washington politics at the moment — a necessary if destructive part of the democratic system — there is the necessity “to preserve your courage and your head” as Kipling said.

The eruption of worldwide terrorism in the name of Islam is a kind of fascism, an effort to turn back the clock to an earlier ideal of a perfect society which never existed; or as Aneurin Bevin said about European fascism of the 1930s, “[F]ascism is not in itself a new order of society; it is the future refusing to be born.”

As throughout its history, jihadist Islam will dissolve, eventually, in a bloodbath of ethnic and internecine rivalries [the preview is seen today in Iraq and on the streets of Karachi], if its opponents in the West maintain their ground [as they did at Tours and Vienna].

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