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Reader comment on item: Militant Islam Is Put In Class With Communism, Fascism
in response to reader comment: Right Wing use of Religion in the West
Submitted by Andy Phillips (Canada), Feb 5, 2007 at 15:42
Actually, a new book that is out has a lot to do with this.
American Fascists, by Chris Hedges, compares right wing religion with fascism.
He'll be interviewd on February 6th by The Hour
You can watch the interview at http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1357
I want to see some people's reaction to this!
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| Militant Islam and poverty [166 words] | Ayasha | Apr 10, 2007 18:54 | 88988 | ||
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| Middle East [44 words] | Clifford Ishii | Aug 5, 2005 02:04 | 24374 | ||
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| 1 | Similarities between Islam and Christianity? [329 words] | Dean Freeman | Jul 23, 2005 18:04 | 23738 | |
| Similarities between Islam and Christianity [94 words] | sharmake warsame | Aug 15, 2008 23:44 | 23738 | ||
| wow! [6 words] | kelsey | Nov 25, 2008 13:34 | 23738 | ||
| ignorance [44 words] | shay | Sep 2, 2012 09:16 | 23738 | ||
| London Attacks [39 words] | Clifford Ishii | Jul 7, 2005 14:38 | 23178 | ||
| Biblical Christianity [103 words] | Clifford Ishii | Jun 23, 2005 21:11 | 22838 | ||
| Radical Islam [58 words] | Clifford Ishii | May 15, 2005 17:49 | 22112 | ||
| Peaceful Islam? [63 words] | Clifford Ishii | Apr 27, 2005 18:04 | 21864 | ||
| Islam is Fascist, it is not a religion [273 words] | Craig Read | Apr 20, 2005 15:43 | 21742 | ||
| Militant Biblical Christianity [15 words] | Clifford Ishii | Mar 9, 2005 17:49 | 20932 | ||
| We Must return to a "Crusade" Doctrine,and not Just to a "Just War" Doctrine. [209 words] | Mark Kerezman | Mar 11, 2006 09:12 | 20932 | ||
| 2 | More religion not the answer [97 words] | Brian F. | Jan 23, 2005 11:06 | 19817 | |
| Fundamentalist Christianity and Al Qaeda [53 words] | Clifford Ishii | May 25, 2004 17:48 | 15358 | ||
| a fundamentalist Christian [135 words] | S.H. Kang | Jul 18, 2007 01:18 | 15358 | ||
| there are extremists for every religion and not just for Islam [11 words] | A.A.A | Jan 4, 2004 14:05 | 13090 | ||
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| Timothy Mcviegh was a Pantheist [17 words] | Alan Smithey | Sep 22, 2006 12:35 | 13090 | ||
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| Right Wing use of Religion in the West [577 words] | David O Reilly | Apr 17, 2003 07:57 | 8420 | ||
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| Irfan Khawaja - I respectfully disagree [365 words] | FreeMan | Aug 26, 2002 22:10 | 2112 | ||
| An International Threat [276 words] | Mary | Aug 26, 2002 21:07 | 2111 | ||
| Islam needs to grow up [142 words] | Joe | Feb 5, 2006 16:54 | 2111 | ||
| Conservative Christians also want to impose their viewpoints on others [508 words] | E Zucker | Aug 26, 2002 21:02 | 2110 | ||
| 1 | Radical Islam May Be More Dangerous than Fascism and Communism! [122 words] | Gary Vineberg | Aug 26, 2002 20:44 | 2109 | |
| There is no such thing as an extermist Muslim, the religion itself is extreme [37 words] | col | Jan 19, 2008 21:14 | 2109 | ||
| Prescient and Wise [46 words] | Harold & Selma Samuels | Aug 26, 2002 19:17 | 2107 | ||
| Militant Islam and Christianity [355 words] | Irfan Khawaja | Aug 26, 2002 16:58 | 2104 | ||
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