Fascist Saudi Arabia warns Bush on linking Islam with fascism

Man, oh man, our baseball loving president hit a home run with his "Islamic fascist" comment he made last week.

CAIR is upset, and now the Saudis are.

I can't wait until he says it again.

Actually, he said it a couple of times before, for instance, in this 2005 Veterans Day speech, although he used the more common term, Islamofascism.

(Style books have yet to rule on whether "Islamic fascist" or "Islamofascism" is correct.)

Well, President Bush touched a raw nerve. Good.

From the August 15 Arab News:

Saudi Arabia yesterday warned against linking Muslims with terrorism and fascism without considering the history of Islamic civilization. Referring to a recent statement by US President George W. Bush branding Muslim extremists as "Islamic fascists," the Council of Ministers said terrorism has no religion or nationality.

"What Islam is accused of today is a Western cultural product like fascism," the Saudi Press Agency

The article then veers predictably off topic, with a standard anti-Israel rant.

As for the "considering history of Islamic civilization," until Kemal Ataturk dragged Turkey, kicking and screaming into partial democracy, most Islamic states were war-mongering kingdoms.

In fact, the current rulers of "the Two Holy Mosques," the House of Saud, became rulers of that part of the Arabian peninsula by force, driving out the Hashemite dynasty in 1926.

There is no freedom of religion in Saudi Arabia. Women are not full citizens, instead they are property, with the status of car, according to Irshad Manji, the Muslim Refusenik. To make sure the subjects of Saudi Arabia behave in a proper Islamic fashion, the Saudi version of the SS, the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, patrol the streets. Capital punishment, via beheadings, are common sentences for murder. Hand or food amputations are accepted forms of punishment for lesser crimes.

Scapegoating: Nazis blamed the Jews for their problems, the Saudis blame the West, and of course, Jews, for the problems (poverty, backwardness) of the Islamic world.

Seems pretty "Islamic fascist" to me.

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