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Kungfoochimp wrote me the following comment regarding the shooting incident at Fort Hood:
"I am irritated that you, like the vast majority of the people I meet who self-indentify [sic] as liberal, dismiss any concerns of islamofascism as patently ridiculous."
Now, readers, please realize that I am a retired English teacher. I'm familiar with debate and linguistics. And in fact, I never said any such thing. I didn't dismiss anything in my article. I definitely did not make any remarks about "islamofascism."
With regard to islamofascism, if it exists, I have to say the most important thing first. That is: the vast majority of people that I meet who self-identify as conservative are very prone to fascistic behavior themselves. It isn't self-identified liberals who bomb clinics. It isn't self-identified liberals who make the most reprehensible, racist statements about our President. Self-identified liberals don't make gun threats at political meetings.
If I had any respect for the right wing, they killed it with their conduct since Barack Obama was elected. Their conduct has been so overwhelmingly reprehensible that if I had not been a liberal before the election, I would have become one in protest to their racism and treason. The conduct of Republicans in Congress alone is so heinous that I would vote for any other party rather than for them.
It's a mistake to believe that if you believe in something very strongly, you must be right. Wanting to believe that something is true does not make it true. Conservatives seem to believe that everyone in America is a vast lynch mob that can be galvanized by Republican members of Congress. They have insulted the President to his face in the Congress--and they look around smiling, waiting for the applause. And these people represent only about 5% of the American people, I am happy to say. So Kungfoochimp is wasting his time trying to get me to jump with a trigger word.
Furthermore, there is a phenomenon in psychology called "projection." People project their own feelings on others and then criticize them. The classic example is the jealous husband who accuses his wife of playing around with other men, while he has a few girlfriends on the side himself.
So in short, no joke, take this seriously: I would be more impressed with the worries of self-identified conservatives if they did not practice the very behavior that they deplore. Someone who wants to treat American Muslims like the Nazis treated Jews--purging them from the military or even from the country--is not going to impress me with words like "islamofascism." It wasn't that long ago when these same people were using the term "feminazi" but now we have apparently run out of them and the attention of conservative fascists is directed at Muslims.
Now, Kungfoochimp and other neofascists who read me now and then--ask yourself this question: just how much recruiting are you going to do for Al Qaeda? Do you think that there is no Internet in the Middle East? Post away, all you want, and rest assured that your hatred and bigotry are going to show up on sites that will tell people from China to Dubai "the truth" about Western civilization.
Muslims are rubber and you are glue--the word "fascist" bounces off them and sticks to you.
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