"Terror, Islam, and Democracy,
I have felt for a long time that the Muslim "Terrorist" movement was based on Marxism. This analysis, which I accept as factual based on Tekboy's putting his brand name on it, proves that. I have taken the liberty of snipping out some slices from the article and stringing them together here in order to "Highlight" this.
>>>"Qutb"s brand of Islamism was formed by his knowledge of both the Marxist and fascist critiques of modern capitalism and representative democracy. His ideal society was a classless one where the "selfish individual" of liberal democracies would be banished and the "exploitation of man by man" would be abolished... They spread their revolutionary Islamist ideas,including the organizational and ideological tools borrowed from European totalitarianism... The Leninist characteristics of his rule, his policy of terror, his revolutionary tribunals and militias, his administrative purges, his cultural revolution... Zawahiri, who would become al-Qaeda's top operational planner,is reported to have said publicly that Osama is "the new Che Guevara"....Thus he employs the very term that Lenin had borrowed from "la Terreur" of the French Revolution. The line from the guillotine and the Cheka to the suicide bomber is clear.... We have also lost the keys to our own culture, otherwise, how could a degenerate Leninism aspire today to pass itself off as the true expression of a great monotheistic religion?... The Islamists see themselves as bold warriors against modernity and the West, but in fact it is they who have imported and then dressed up in Islamic-sounding verbiage some of the most dubious ideas that ever came out of the modern West, ideas which now, after much death and suffering, the West itself has generally rejected.<<<
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