Thanks for posting. I don't know what to say. Right now I am just very, very angry.
However, I don't think the word "fascism" applies here -- it's something very similar, though, so if that is the word people use, I am not going to argue with it. But I prefer the term "totalitarian."
But I think it's impossible to see into people's hearts.
I have a Pakistani client whose former husband is from Afghanistan. Her entire family is OK, his is not, but you couldn't tell that by looking at him.
You can't tell from the way he acts at work and in other public venues that his new wife is kept home confined to a Taliban-style existance, not allowed to drive, not allowed to go out except all covered up. You can't tell by looking at him that he takes his daughter to be taught Arabic by a teacher who also teaches the children to hate Christians, not five miles from my own house. You can't tell that he's planning on marrying his daughter to her first cousin and keeping her locked up once she reaches puberty, that she was promised to her first cousin in marriage the day she was born.
All the men who were arrested in England were quiet, friendly, neighborly, polite, hung out with Christians and Muslims both. |
