Islamofascists?

Islamofascists

The first time I heard one of our right wing overlords use the term Islamofascist I was confused. It obviously was not being used in the proper context and I expected it to be a one-off blunder. But then I heard Limbaugh use it and Hannity then Rumsfeld and finally the president. It now seems to be the rallying cry of Bush apologists everywhere.

Al Qaeda, fascists? It made no sense. They are simply criminals whose tactic is to use murder to cause fear and terror amongst a population. They are merely a “rag tag” group of individuals with very little central control not an authoritarian government like that of Hitler or Stalin who would arrest people in the dead of night and wisk them away to a secret prison somewhere and hold them incommunicado for years on end. They don’t spy on their own population and turn friends and neighbors into snitches for the good of the state. They don’t use fear and alarm as a method of control over the populace and scare innocent citizens so much that they simply want the government to protect them no matter what the cost.

No. Al Qaeda doesn’t do these things.

Our government does. The Bush government.

Of course! Unpleasant as they are I have to admit that Bush’s controllers are brilliant people.
It’s a dark, nasty brilliance to be sure but it is clever.

Because of the direction they have taken America they knew that pretty soon the country would wise up and see what was really happening.
Americans would see the parallels between Germany and Russia in the middle of the last century and the United States of America today and would be appalled at how a once beautiful example of freedom and democracy had been subverted in just a few short years and transformed into a vicious hate filled fascist semi-dictatorship.

They are now labeling Al Qaeda as the fascists as a way of deflecting the name away from themselves. Their thinking is obviously “Call our enemy fascists first and no one will then be able to use it against us”