Fighting Extremism Over There,
So It Can Flourish Over Here?
by George Aleman III - Axis of
Logic
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_24863.shtml,
Jul 7, 2007
A Surge Of Hypocrisy
The United States entered World War II in 1941 to block the extension
of a utopian, extremist worldview called Nazism. Despite the fact
that Imperial Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, it perceived Nazi Germany as the greater threat to world
peace and waged war against the racial state. Hitler's extension
of "totalitarianism, racism, militarism, and overt aggressive
warfare" had to be stopped at all costs. [1] The fate of
humanity was in the balance. As America entered the war against
Hitler's utopian, racial fanaticism, many felt a surge of hypocrisy
in the action. Why was the United States going off to fight a
state that was committed to segregation supported by law and racial
hierarchy when things looked almost no different at home? How
could the United States claim to be fighting injustice and racism
abroad when it was allowing injustice, segregation, and overall
racism to flourish within its borders? This double-standard was
never addressed in this time, has yet to be reconciled in America's
history, and most surely never will.
An Artificial Parallel
Over sixty years after World War II has ended, the United States
has once again undertaken a global endeavor. This time, to eradicate
fanatical Islamic-terrorists who are bent on destroying freedom
and democracy. Apparently, our new enemies embody goose-stepping
fascists with a religious twist. Hence the phrase, 'Islamo-Fascists,'
created and perpetuated by the media. The great purpose of this
broadcasted phrase-among many others-is to imbed the idea that
the United States is somehow taking on an endeavor comparable
to that of World War II (The Good War). By creating an artificial
parallel between the enemies of World War II and those of today,
the public relations industry and those within governmental institutions,
wish to mislead the American population into feeling that a foreign
policy of preventive global aggression is just and right. Tactics
are of no concern, as the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
What is done must be done to ensure humankind's freedom. After
all, the enemy is of Second Great War proportions.
No doubt, there are religious-extremists in the world who would
like to see a global utopia manifest, and who will even go as
far as trying to implement it. There is no denying this. Historical
and current examples are abundant. However, the propagandistic
tendency of the media to portray most, if not all, Muslims as
fanatics who want to create, and export, a Caliphate (the Islamic
form of government representing the political unity and leadership
of the Muslim world) that will be "as Fascist as Nazi Germany
was," in a convert or die approach, as well as the overall
comparison to the 20th century European fascist movements, to
foster fear and xenophobia in the American population to keep
them in their hermetic, insular condition is wholly misleading.
[2]
First, fascism is a system based on the fusion of government and
corporations. Also known as Corporatism, the two institutions
work in concert to bring profit to a tiny minority and discipline
to the rest of the population, which acts as the workforce. Second,
it is a post-democratic occurrence. In other words, "[i]t
is a phenomenon of failed democracies" [3] Third, fascist
movements are limited to state territories where the people's
passions are channeled "into the construction of an obligatory
domestic unity around projects of internal cleansing and external
expansion." [4] Hence, it is a state-centered utopian project
that expands itself by way of force from the inside out. Fourth,
fascists use the state of confinement's institutions (political,
economic, and military), usually those of a democratic society,
to seize control and implement their utopian visions. Fifth, it
is a state-centered "political religion" that mobilizes
"believers around sacred rites and words, excite[s] them
to self-denying fervor, and preache[s] a revealed truth that admit[s]
no dissidence." [5] In essence, the state is extremely insular
and seen as the most important entity of all. As Robert O. Paxton
describes in The Anatomy of Fascism:
The [state] community comes before humankind in fascist values,
and respecting individual rights or due process gave way to serving
the destiny of the volk or razza. Therefore each individual national
fascist movement gives full expression to its own cultural particularism.
Fascism, unlike the other "isms," is not for export[,
it does not seek to convert the outside world]: each movement
jealously guards its own recipe for national revival, and fascist
leaders seem to feel little or no kinship with their foreign cousins.
[6]
The so-called illusive, global network of Islamic terrorists who
are apparently committed to destroying freedom and democracy worldwide
and, most of all, America, for its having been born-of course
not because of its policies in the Middle-East-have no such political,
military, and/or economic institutions through which to wage combat
on the scales presented to the American public. On the contrary,
most of these groups are sparse, disconnected factions comprised
of Third World populations in a deep political and economic crisis
that most often "eclipse religion." [7] Most foreign
extremists " are not driven by religion as much as they are
by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern [imperial] democracies
to withdraw military forces from the territory that [they] view
as their homeland." [8] Moreover, "[f]undamentalist
Muslims offer little loyalty" to any given state, as "Islam
is their nation." [9] Many Muslims also feel a kinship with
those outside their religious world, especially in times of crisis.
Was it an anomaly that the Muslim world rallied to denounce the
attacks of 9/11 and support the United States during its time
of grievance? [10] And finally, as Paxton asserts:
The principal objection to succumbing to the temptation to call
Islamic fundamentalist movements like al-Qaeda and the Taliban
fascist is that they are not reactions against a malfunctioning
democracy. Arising in traditional hierarchical societies, their
unity is, in terms of Émile Durkheim's famous distinction,
more mechanical than organic. Above all, they have not "given
up free institutions," since they never had any. [11]
In February of this year, a global poll of twenty-seven countries,
some Muslim majority countries included, was taken by the BBC
World Service. A majority agreed with the sentiment that most
radical groups are sparse, disconnected factions comprised of
Third World populations in a deep political and economic crisis
that most often "eclipse religion." [12] A majority
also believed that common ground can be found in what has been
ludicrously labeled, "the clash of civilizations." [13]
So, what the media portrays as 'Islamo-Fascism,' in order create
an artificial parallel between the enemies of World War II and
those of today to dupe the population into supporting a policy
of preventive global aggression to fend off a 'global enemy' of
Word War II proportions by any means necessary is not only misleading,
it is also ignorant, dangerous, and "intellectually dishonest."
[14] At base, it is just a "way to cut short any discussion
of neo-imperialism." [15]
All this is not to say that there are not deranged, ultra-orthodox,
fanatical perverts of Islam, or any other religion for that matter,
who are bent on creating a utopia of their own through wanton
violence and destruction. This is also not to say that some radical
groups cannot conjure the ability to attack the United States.
9/11 proved that they can. It is, however, to say that the American
public has been misled, for some time now, about the magnitude
and true reality of happenings outside, even inside, their country.
It is to say that what they have been led to believe-that there
are 'fascist' Muslim killers on the prowl everywhere waiting to
strike at their throats because they are free-is certainly not
the case. It is also to say that a policy of "full-spectrum
dominance" to achieve hegemony is surely not the path to
security. [16]
A Resurgence Of Hypocrisy
What is a concrete analogy of World War II proportions, however,
is the fact that once again a surge of hypocrisy is felt as America
undertakes this global endeavor to eradicate religious extremist-terrorists
while there are such problems of the same type flourishing at
home. Accordingly, the question becomes: "Why has the United
States committed itself to fighting religious extremism abroad
while it is allowing such fanaticism to thrive at home?"
"How can it claim to be fighting overt religious fundamentalism
abroad when it is allowing overt religious fundamentalism to prosper
within its borders?" This is a double-standard that needs
to be addressed and reconciled in this time.
Home-Grown Extremism
There resides in America's Protestant world a powerful movement
known as dominionism. Also known as reconstructionism, this movement
is a profoundly influential force on evangelicals and other Christian
Right sects in America. [17] According to Chris Hedges, author
of American Fascists: the Christian Right and the War on America,
dominionists share many traits with fundamentalists and evangelicals.
For instance, they view the world through the prism of literal
biblical narrative, blindly submit and cohere "to a male
hierarchy," and reject and hold "disdain for rational,
intellectual inquiry" into worldly occurrences. [18] According
to Frederick Clarkson, who authored a four part series in The
Public Eye Magazine on Christian Reconstructionism in 1994, the
key commonality between dominionists and other sects of the Christian
Right is the commitment to the "dominion mandate." [19]
Also called the "cultural mandate," it "derives
from the Book of Genesis and God's direction to 'subdue' the earth
and exercise 'dominion' over it." [20] The ultimate goal,
then, for dominionists is to seize the world's hyper-power and
use it to wage war on all who refuse to submit to the Christian
God and to cultivate a utopian domain, a worldwide Christian theocracy
for the return of Christ. In order to attain the instruments necessary
to implement this divine scheme, dominionists encourage mass political
and social activism by the Christian Right. Hence, dominionists
seek to galvanize radical Christians and "politicize faith."
[21]
In a worldwide Christian theocratic domain the death penalty,
according to doctrinal leaders, "would be used for a wide
range of crimes," including "rape, kidnapping, murder
apostasy (abandonment of the faith), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft,
astrology, adultery, 'sodomy or homosexuality,' incest, striking
a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency," and pre-marital
sex. [22] In addition, "women who have abortions [would]
be publicly executed, 'along with those who advised them to abort
their children.'" [23] According to Clarkson, "biblically
approved methods of execution include burning (at the stake for
example), stoning, hanging, and 'the sword'" The "[p]unishments
for non-capital crimes generally [would be] whipping, restitution
in the form of indentured servitude, or slavery." [24]
In addition to their wanton desire to promiscuously use lethal
punishment for crimes committed against Christian Laws, dominionists
also subscribe to "Christian Revisionism." [25] This
is a pseudo-view of the world where science and history are understood
and "written by means of retroactively discerning 'God's
providence.'" [26] Accordingly, one's understandings of the
world are "articles of faith Whatever does not fit neatly
into this 'Biblical world view' becomes problematic, perhaps a
delusion sent by Satan." [27] Facts are distorted and injected
with biblical propaganda to absorb individuals into a "big
lie." [28] The danger, according to Hedges, of such a pseudo-worldview
is that "it allows facts to be accepted or discarded according
to the dictates of a preordained ideology." [29] Moreover,
it extracts disciples "from the rational, reality-based world"
and inserts them into another realm where they "can believe
what they want to believe, where there is no possibility of reaching
any conclusion not predetermined by those who interpret the official,
divinely inspired text." [30] Hence, irrationality and illogic
precede rationality and logic. The world is black and white, divided
between sinner and crusader, Christian and non-Christian, savage
and civilizer.
In their pursuit for disciples, dominionists seek both Christian
and non-Christian victims to disseminate their radical, totalitarian
ideology to. Though they target the weak-minded, they habitually
prey upon those in a state of despair. As Hedges describes:
Isolation, the plague of the modern industrial society, has torn
apart networks of extended families and communities. It has empowered
this new movement of dreamers, who bombard the airwaves with an
idealistic and religious utopianism that promises, through apocalyptic
purification, to eradicate the old, sinful world and fill the
resulting emptiness with a new world where time stops and all
problems are solved. The movement promises to followers what many
never had: a stable home and family, a loving community, fixed
moral standards, financial and personal success and an abolition
of uncertainty and doubt. It offers a religious vision that will
make fragmented, lost individuals whole. It provides moral clarity.
It also promises to exterminate, in one final, apocalyptic battle,
the forces many of these people blame for their despair. [31]
This fanatical movement has flourished and infected many of the
weak-minded by employing "jargon, methods and data that appear
to be [legitimate], to make an argument for [revisionism]."
[32] It has "created parallel research and scholarly institutions"
to "preserve appearance" and advance acceptability.
[33] It has infiltrated important sectors of American society,
including the government. Moreover, it continues to:
pump out articles in self-published journals to provide 'evidence'
that homosexuals can be cured, that global warming is a myth,
that abortion can cause breast cancer, that something they call
'post-abortion syndrome' leads to deep depression and suicide
and that abstinence-only education is an effective form of birth
control. [34]
Dominionists brandish extreme intolerance and hostility towards
non-believers and harbor a strong desire to transform America
into a theocratic nation by hijacking the " U.S. state and
religious institutions" and symbols.[35] Though these dark,
radical characteristics are not shared by every camp within the
Christian Right, even the Christian community as a whole, influential
exertion by dominionists to dissolve these differences is mounting.
While there are differences now, there may not be later. Like
all totalitarian movements, Hedges says, dominionists seek:
to appropriate not only religious and patriotic language but also
our stories, to deny the validity of stories other than their
own, to deny that there are other acceptable ways of living and
being. There becomes, in their rhetoric, only one way to be a
Christian and only one way to be an American It has, like all
fascist movements, a belief in magic along with leadership adoration
and a strident call for moral and physical supremacy of a master
race, in this case American Christians. [36]
This is alarmingly close to Paxton's conclusion of a future fascist
movement that:
would undoubtedly call itself something else and draw upon fresh
symbols [and] would probably prefer the mainstream patriotic dress
of their own place and time [37]
Hedges continues to say that American values, Christian and non-Christian,
"are being dismantled, often with stealth, by [this] radical"
movement that cloaks "itself in the mantle of Christian faith
and American patriotism." [38] Accordingly, dominionists
are a dangerous, "huge and disastrous" mutation within
the Christian world that seeks to contaminate and subvert the
foundations of American democracy and anything that challenges
Christian lore. [39]
This movement is a flourishing and growing one; it continues to
feed on the despair and feeble-mindedness of others. It is an
influential movement that is "based on emotion..." [40]
It encourages mass political and social activism by all who have
either been converted to their way of being or share similar attributes.
It is determined to dismantle the open society by using the open
society. It is bent on destroying everything non-Christian, even
democracy, in the name of Christ. And, as America becomes increasingly
devastated and rocked by a rising deficit, fiscally irresponsible
representatives, an increasing war debt, exportation of jobs,
a massive trade deficit, stagnant and decreasing wages, a swelling
Third World scale poverty rate, a Malaysian level infant death
rate, destruction of the middle-class, suppression of the lower
class, racism, uninsured citizens, an eroding education system,
homelessness, a cruel tax system, dwindling and gutted domestic
relief services, it will only become stronger, more active and
appealing. [41]
These ultra-orthodox, fanatical perverts of Christianity are committed
to using American institutions, influence, and power at home and
abroad for their own delusional, utopian benefit and lust of power.
They have "embraced cultural antimodernism, war hawkishness,
Armageddon prophecy, and a demand for [governance] by literal
biblical interpretation." [42]
In the end, this movement has been able to gain such momentum
because of compliant individuals who have benefited from it. Whether
one believes in this unstable mystical movement is of no consequence
as long as one is benefited by it. Arrogance of control abounds
in politicians who eschew the dangers of using such a politicized
religious movement that is highly toxic to democracy for their
own gain.
It has also been able to gain such momentum due to the majority
of open society proponents who, as Hedges points out, do not "understand
the power and allure of evil or the cold reality of how the world"
really works. [43] The misdiagnosis by non-confrontational individuals
of the potency of this ideology on citizens searching a way out
of despair is hazardous. As Kevin Phillips, author of American
Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and
Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, asserts:
the radical threads of American religion are being proclaimed
openly and analyzed widely, even though bluntness is frequently
muted by a pseudo-tolerance, the polite reluctance to criticize
another's religion. However, given the wider thrust of religion's
claims on public life, this hesitance falls somewhere between
unfortunate and dangerous. [44]
Dominionists are not alone in their extremist conduct and view
points. There are other right-wing branches of extremist sects
within the United States that cloak themselves in the religion
of Christianity. The most infamous, and gaining wider attention,
is the repugnant Westboro Baptist Church ministry from Topeka,
Kansas, led by reverend Fred Phelps, that roams the country to
disrupt fallen soldier's funerals. This group claims to "adhere
to the [literal] teachings of the Bible, preach against all form
of sin ( e.g., fornication, adultery, sodomy), and insist that
the doctrines of grace be taught publicly to all men."[45]
They engage in "demonstrations opposing the homosexual lifestyle
of soul-damning, nation-destroying filth," by displaying
"large, colorful signs containing Bible words and sentiments"
that include:
GOD HATES FAGS, AIDS CURES FAGS, THANK GOD FOR AIDS, FAGS BURN
IN HELL, FAGS ARE NATURE FREAKS, FAGS DOOM NATIONS, THANK GOD
FOR DEAD SOLDIERS, GOD BLEW UP THE TROOPS , GOD HATES AMERICA,
AMERICA IS DOOMED, THE WORLD IS DOOMED, and THANK GOD FOR I.E.D.'s.
[46]
Furthermore, they disseminate flyers that convey how America is
"an evil, lawless nation" that condones homosexuality
and sin, and has therefore made God its terrorist, and will soon,
thankfully, meet its demise. [47]
It is interesting that a deranged group that shrouds itself in
Christianity and parades around the nation disrupting the funerals
of fallen soldier's by spitting hate at their families, and even
giving support to how they died, is given a free pass for their
endeavors. This group actively gives credence to the tactics used
in killing those individuals who supposedly gave up the American
Dream so that others did not have to and who are said to be so
supported by our representatives. Moreover, they roam the landscape
terrorizing American citizens with odious messianic language.
Indeed, they are committed to using First Amendment rights to
terrorize American citizens.
Divine Exhilaration
Make no mistake about it. America is a virulently religious country,
whose pious roots stem from early colonial settlements by radical
European theologian separatists and stretch to the nation's founding
and beyond. Indeed, "[n]o other contemporary Western nation,"
according to Phillips, "shares this religious intensity and
its concomitant proclamation" of choseness. [48] Furthermore,
it is "the world's leading Bible-reading crusader state,
immersed in an Old Testament of stern prophets and bloody Middle
Eastern battlefields."
This does not negate the fact that there is a "large and
growing secular culture in the United States." [49] However,
as American democracy becomes more unresponsive and the state
itself falls into greater despair, citizens will continue to vote
out of fear and allow their free institutions to be dismantled
for a gain in security. As this process continues, those who have
cloaked themselves in the benignity of the Christian faith and
"learned to moderate their language, abandon classical [totalitarian]
symbolism, and appear "normal," will make their way
even more into the center. [50] The most "well-known warning
signals" will become even more insufficient. [51] As Paxton
says, the "historical peculiarity of the original fascisms
does not mean that future integrist movements could not build
upon a religion in place of a nation, or as the expression of
national identity." [52] Indeed, America may be headed towards
the path of other democracies that gave up "free institutions"
in order to transform themselves into a malignant entity of mass
mobilization for the reunification, purification, and regeneration
of their society. [53] In the current climate of fear and mass
manipulation, the time may be coming for home-grown, radical religious-extremists
to be able to channel the people's passions into the "mass
enthusiasm and demonic energy of fascism, along with the mission
of 'giving up free institutions' for the sake of national unity,
purity, and force." [54] Fittingly, the image of America
as a potential "preemptive righteousness of a biblical nation"
that is a "high-technology, gospel-spreading" hyper-power
is divinely exhilarating. [55] As a result, the highly radicalized,
politicized dominionist wing of the Christian Right is further
encouraging political and social involvement to achieve the grandiose
moment of seizure.
As the environment is such, how does it make sense for America
to wage war on religious extremism abroad when it cannot control,
even refuses to give proper attention to, it at home?
Asserting Control
It must be understood that America's home-grown extremists do
not embody the religion they purport to represent, nor the people
of that faith, just as the minority of the perverts of Islam,
or any other religion for that matter, do not. On the contrary,
they are "a large minority" of deranged, power-hungry,
archaic personalities who seek to convert others to their movement
by infecting them with delusional perceptions and hate. [56] Accordingly,
they prey upon the situational weak that are facing socio-economic
despair and seeking a way out, as well as the frail-minded. They
then present a totalitarian utopia to these vulnerable victims
and more numbers are subsequently added to their cause. Hence,
these individuals are not a majority of the religious population.
As this is such, religion should not be detested. That sentiment
must be reserved for those who choose to pervert it for their
own revolting purposes.
In all this, extremism must be combated with extremism, but of
correct methods. Combating power-hungry, totalitarian, fanatical
parasites bent on producing a utopia on earth, infecting those
with weak minds and who wallow in despair, is going to take devotion.
That is, devotion to more emphasis on secular education, alleviation
of socio-economic despair, negotiation, and more openness and
fairness in the media to inoculate the currently infected and
foster immunity in potential future victims. This is the correct
arsenal, among others, for the "large and growing secular
culture in the United States" to combat viral, emotion latching
extremism. [57] The long standing boundary between church and
state must be reinforced. Furthermore, ambitious politicians who
use such influential militants to advance themselves need to come
to realize the extent to which they are playing with fire of an
unpredictable nature. "Historically, great powers have too
often gone down in blazes of religious invocation." [58]
If such endeavors cannot be provided proper devotion and attention,
then dangerous extremism will only continue to flourish and assert
control at home, and I fear that once it has spun out of total
control, only then will the end be truly near when the button
is pushed to forward Armageddon.
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[36] Ibid., p. 11.
[37] Paxton. p. 174.
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[39] Ibid., p. 14.
[40] Ibid., p. 195; 202.
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[44] Phillips. p. 100.
[45] Content can be found in the "About" section of
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[46] Ibid.
[47] Westboro Baptist Church Demonstration Event flier in pdf
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[49] Ibid., p. 103.
[50] Paxton., p. 205.
[51] Ibid.
[52] Ibid., p. 203.
[53] Ibid., p. 174.
[54] Ibid., p. 216.
[55] Phillips., p. 103.
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[57] Ibid., p. 103.
[58] Ibid.
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