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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