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    • The Clash of Civilizations Doesn't Exist... Yet

      Posted by Billbar from Alternet

      We're fortunate that most of the Clash of Civilizations rhetoric is obvious nonsense peddled by cynics playing to our latent xenophobia, rather than something inherently violent or nihilistic in Islam (it is violent, but no more than any other religion). "Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims" is a common refrain on the many "war-blogs" that have proliferated since 9/11. That's wrong, and purely racist -- like saying all crack-heads are African-American. In the end, the Clash of Civilizations rhetoric is, by design, a way to cut short any discussion of neo-imperialsim (the same reason we hear gibberish that foreign policy critics "hate America," that "they hate us for our freedom" or that "you're with us or against us"). The truth is that we're threatened by a number of lethal organized crime networks -- with politics rather than profits as their chief motivation -- spread out over dozens of countries. ... those reactionaries within our own society who are pushing the Clash of Civilizations are mirror-images of the terrorists that inspire their hyperbolic fear; they're just as xenophobic, just as irrational and, ultimately, are just as great a threat to our security. Both have to be challenged aggressively before they give birth to another, even bloodier generation of culture warriors.

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    • Common Ground: The Islamic civil war

      Posted by Billbar from UPI

      This may be the last chance for the United States in the Middle East. The fault lines in the Islamic civil war have not yet fully rigidified. By using its energies in service of the strategic goals of the extremists' Muslim and local adversaries (Mahmoud Abbas, the Lebanese government, those Shiites and Sunnis committed to a political solution in Iraq), the United States can court Muslim populations much more effectively than through the direct imposition of its own goals by military or politically manipulative means.

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      Islamic radicalization of Europe's jails?

      Posted by Billbar from MSNBC

      While religion can assist prisoners in bettering their lives, there is a growing fear that radical Islamists are using jails to find recruits, with some analysts saying that al-Qaida is specifically targeting inmates for indoctrination. "The connection between criminality and Islamism is very tight in Europe," said Michael Radu, a terrorism analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

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    • Islamism is neo-Stalinism

      Posted by Billbar from UPI

      Today the idea of a global "class struggle" in which the Muslims (proletariat) is engaged in a battle against the evil Christians and Jews (capitalists, imperialists) to wage a revolution and create a new utopian Islamist state (communism) seems to be in the mainstream of the Arab and Muslim discussion.

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