I like the title "Islamists" too but it is too nice.

Submitted by Tiberius (United States), Aug 17, 2006 at 16:13

I want a word to show no respect for these people. While I can understand the need to have the world stop 5 times a day to "pray" makes for a nice siesta break and one gets to socialize with fellows (while washing hands feet and removing shoes) BUT, this communion with their Allah does not lead to a humane existence with non-Muslims - they justify their murder with the philosophy of their religion as coming from the Koran or its required as a command to follow the life of their Muhammad - fighting non-believers.

Now, about Fascism, Islamists do take a person's private property and insist that those profits be used to further their aims, this is in keeping with a FASCIST system, look at all the money funneled into their religion by the profits of oil wealth, if there were no financing coming into their miserable deserts, they would be all living in stone huts and cold wet tents, using papyrus instead of cell phones. They would also really need to fear pork for its disease carrying potentials (trichinosis) from unclean environments. In short, they are NOTHING without the WEST and her civilization and technology. Sure, the West's has its shortcomings, but we are learning, but without the Islamists jihad, there would be virtually NO WAR on Earth! And that is a good Godly thing.

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