Nationalism to Fascism

Ray Ibrahim: From Nationalism to Fascism to Terror

Ref:  VDH Online: September 4, 2005

“And so, in certain respects, Islamic fundamentalism is an old phenomenon in a different form. Just as for Germany, wars and wounded egos have produced a vicious backlash in many parts of the Arab world.  But these commonalities and shared histories are not only instructive regarding the causes of Nazism and Islamic fundamentalism; perhaps they can also shed some light on how to handle the latter.”

Islamofascism: a justified term

Christopher Hitchens: Defending Islamofascism

Ref: slate.com, Oct. 22, 2007

“Both movements are based on a cult of murderous violence that exalts death and destruction and despises the life of the mind. Both are hostile to modernity (except when it comes to the pursuit of weapons), and both are bitterly nostalgic for past empires and lost glories. Both are obsessed with real and imagined “humiliations” and thirsty for revenge.”