Islamists

Submitted by GF (India), Aug 15, 2006 at 00:53

There is no comparable term to describe Islam'ist ' savagery, Islam'ist' barbarism in polite debate, with the exception of 'jihadi'. In India, there is 'Maoist', the mirror image, in terms of violent, ignorant, blinkered fanaticism against the State, the population, and strangely enough, also those it proclaims to be its protectorate. Terrorism, by any name.... Ignorance, couched in technology; sophisticated semantics; multi-tiered networking with groups planted in the polite society, including government, political parties, and the media; strategic planning; money power; and links with each other (jihadi-maoist) in terms of sharing of information and weapons. Brothers-in-arms. Both cannot win in the end, but that is the last concern of the Satanic creedo that drives both! Tweedledum-tweedledee.

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