Imagine if the right-wing fundies ever realized how much they have in common with Islamic extremists

[Hugabear]

Hatred of homosexuals? Check

Women as second-class citizens? Check

Government based on religion? Check

Forcing others to conform to your morality? Check

Immediately going after anyone who dares criticize your religion? Check

Intensely strong belief that your views and actions are sanctioned by GOD, and that everyone else is wrong? Check


When you get right down to it, there isn't really a whole lot of different between America's right-wing fundies and the extremists in places like Afghanistan or Iran. Maybe it's a good thing these two groups haven't figured this out yet. One can just imagine that they might align themselves and decide to partition the world, much like Germany and Japan during WWII.

[liberal N proud]

1. Their brain might short circuit. n/t

[Geoff R. Casavant]

2. Wouldn't matter -- they have the trump card of cognitive dissonance:

"Those Islamofascists do what they do because of their crazy false god. We do what we do because we have been commanded by the ALMIGHTY!"

[hifiguy]

15. Don't you need cognition to have cognitive dissonance?

These imbeciles on both sides have the cognitive abilities of a lower form of plant life. Fungi or moss, perhaps.

[valerief]

3. Same vermin, different name. nt

[malaise]

4. Indeed noone personifies it better than

Santaliban

[fascisthunter]

5. they live in a bubble... their own skulls

never to open their eyes to uncomfortable truths. It's what makes them extremists, and it is why I consider them to be nuts.

[LeftishBrit]

6. I've been saying for a while...

that one day, and probably sooner rather than later, Muslim and Christian social conservatives will join forces against the Evil Secular Left. Might have happened already if not for Bush's wars. After all, 20 years ago it would have seemed unlikely that Catholic and Protestant social conservatives would have joined forces to the extent that they have.

It's already beginning to some extent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4141294.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/9084631/Baroness-Warsis-strike-at-secular-fundamentalists-as-she-meets-Pope.html

http://www.spuc.org.uk/about/muslim-division/why

[EgaLitE]

7. It's been going on for longer than you think

The Far Right has been secret allies with Islam for a long, long time:

http://www.nothingbritish.com/10/nick-griffin-ally-to-attend-islamist-conference-in-london/

They pretend to dislike Muslims, but it's only because those Muslims happen to be immigrants. In reality the far right LOVES Osama bin Laden. Look at this video:

Let me repeat that the far right LOVES Islam. How many anti-fascists or leftists attended Iran's Holocaust Denial Conference? Zero. How many conservative/right-wingers did? Too many too count:

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/file.php?40,file=52755,filename=santorum.jpg

[superpatriotman]

8. Kick and recommend

Nothing short of global holy war will please the clerics.

[Spazito]

9. Yep, their extremism is virtually identical...

in just about every way, imo. Santorum and his supporters would fit in quite well with the Taliban and their thinking.

[Initech]

10. I've been pointing this out since Bush's "election".

[YellowRubberDuckie]

11. Think about how much they have in common with the Third Reich.

That'll get them going...

[TheKentuckian]

12. I tend to believe the Islamic radicals actually know their scriptures and are less likely

to be pushing their bullshit to make money or support a system of extraction.

Unchecked, I think the local variants would be far more dangerous. Luckily, they don't have oil rich nations where they are stacked up without dissenting opinion to fester in and they still kill and blow shit up.

[HillWilliam]

13. I don't post on FB much but I have let more than one wackogelical have it

with: If you want to live in a country where the law of the land is extracted from some holy-book, where women are chattel to men and must walk several steps behind, where homosexuals are put to death just for existing, where there is no other allowable faith except the one sanctioned in the national document, then I submit that your heaven on earth already exists. It's called Iran. Now pack your shit and go.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Perhaps that's what they're doing now?

"When you get right down to it, there isn't really a whole lot of different between America's right-wing fundies and the extremists in places like Afghanistan or Iran. Maybe it's a good thing these two groups haven't figured this out yet. One can just imagine that they might align themselves and decide to partition the world, much like Germany and Japan during WWII."

They don't have to be open allies to accomplish the task, the U.S. and former Soviet Union did something along those lines as adversaries during the Cold War.

They just create a fearful box for everyone else to live in making it easier to manipulate, use and abuse the people in their respective spheres or regions of control.

They play off each other to empower and or enrich themselves.

Thanks for the thread, Hugabear.