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Welcome, rarmcwa!
Thanks for posting!
posted by
WriterofLight
on September 21, 2006 at 12:04 PM
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FW, thanks for the information
Not sure what connection that has to the subject at hand, or where you got your definition, but for anyone who's interested, here's an extensive discussion of the subject on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive. Interesting that President Reagan's administration has a heading but no entries beneath it, and that Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, Carter and George W. Bush aren't even mentioned. But then this is Wikipedia, so what do you expect?
posted by
WriterofLight
on September 21, 2006 at 12:02 PM
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Writer,
superb post! Islamo-fascism is the only appropriate term for this unfortunate tendency in a religion that also has a peaceful face, though it is less and less visible.
What particularly disturbs me, aside from fools like Feingold whose minds are befogged by the vapors of political correctness, is the deafening silence on the part of moderate Muslims over the crimes committed in the name of Allah. Yet when the Pope makes some politically ill-advised, though factually entirely correct comments, there is a world-wide uproar! (My answer to that is found in my log).
Daniel Pipes speaks of a 'nurturing community' which, while not directly engaged in acts of violence, nontheless supports it tacitly and at the very least cannot bring itself to condemn it.
We can only hope that this community will not itself spawn such jihadi.
posted by
Nautikos
on September 18, 2006 at 12:57 PM
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I like Islamo-Nihilists just fine
Dear Friends:
Or perhaps we should just call them the New KKK. They are about as openminded on the subject of persons with alternative belief systems, and bombing little kids and grannies and civilians in Haifa pizza parlors seems about as lame and sick as bombing churches in Birmingham.
Just one man's opinion.
PS - anyone who believes anything Senator Feingold says beyond "the sun rises in the East and sets in the West" is not paying close attention to events in the Real World.
posted by
Rarmcwa
on September 14, 2006 at 8:30 AM
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Fascism is too light a word
It has to be an Islamo-something. To not include their Islamic identity (especially when 10% at least of the world's Moslem population supports what they're doing) is like removing the Confederacy from the South. The problem is not even the fascists were as bad as these psychopaths. Maybe Islamo-Nihilist? I like the Islamo-Fascist term because it gets people riled up and thats what we need. There is too much tolerance for mass murder in the Moslem world and they need to take care of that issue before they start complaining about terminology.
posted by
LeRoyCoyote
on September 13, 2006 at 1:25 PM
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Sounds like another definition of "Unitary Executive"
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
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posted by
fwmystic
on September 13, 2006 at 7:31 AM
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Writeroflight, Right. The Islamic Fascists should avoid using misleading
explosive devices and homocide bombers. Then their denomination will hold its head up.
posted by
kingmi
on September 12, 2006 at 8:57 PM
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