Knowing your enemy.
From: Rev Dr Barrie Williams, Whitby.
WHEN I studied political theory, I understood that “fascism” was summed up in Mussolini’s dictum “Nothing above the state; nothing against the state; nothing apart from the state”. Racism and anti-Semitism were not part of the mix, at least until the Axis Pact. “Fascism” is often used where another term would be more appropriate, usually “Nazism”. What we confront in Daesh/IS is not fascism but something virtually unknown in Western Europe since the mid 17th century: militant religious totalitarianism. The first lesson in war is, know your enemy. It does not help to mislabel him.
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