just because Christofascism exists doesn't mean Islamofasicsm doesn't.

I was just wondering if any middle-east scholar, or Prof. Cole himself, can point me to anything he has written for the Arabic press in which he condemns terrorism's links to Islam, and Islam's links to terrorism?

Can there be any doubt that one of the most repressive regimes on the face of the earth in the last half of the 20th century was the Taliban's reign in Afghanistan? Is any government more responsible for clutural repression and destruction? Is there any doubt that the most potent, deadliest, and most destructive terrorist movement of this generation has been the movement that might variously be called 'jihadism,' or 'al Qaeda' or 'Islamofascism'? If none of those terms is acceptable to Prof. Cole, is there any term he would accept? Or does he simply deny that there exists any generalized terrorist movement that threatens the United States in the post 9/11 era?

Professor Cole's article is largely a collection of inconsequential throwaway comments by candidates or their staffs. Is there any news, any polling, any evidence of any kind, suggesting that the Republicans can expect to suffer in a Presidential contest for their emphasis on national security issues? Will John McCain's courageous support for the recent troop surge hurt him? Polling suggests the opposite, with McCain currently holding strong leads in both a hypothetical McCain-Clinton race and a hypothetical McCain-Obama race.

Before November, I hope and expect that if the Republican nominee is John McCain, the Democrat nominee (for whom Professor Cole might be consulting) is asked this question: "Seantor McCain pledges that he will win the war - and the peace - in Iraq. Will you make the same commitment?"

GOP... we hate: gays, Mexicans, blacks, Muslims, poor people, trial lawyers, socialists, liberals... the list goes on and on.

Good article on the war on Islam being raged by the armchair warriors of the GOP. You have to realize that the presidential candidates are taking their inspiration from the hate speech spouted by the "base": Limbaugh, Coulter, Fox News, Savage, hotair, the Christian conversatives... you just have to read the comments at some of their websites to gauge the ignorance and hate that has been whipped up.

And bigotry is a passing fad. As the nation emerges from a post-9/11 fear-haze where many are more vulnerable to hate and bigotry, the bigotry goes out of style. The same as anti-Jewish, anti-black, anti-Asian, anti-Catholic bigotry has gone out of style.

Can there be any doubt that one of the most repressive regimes on the face of the earth in the last half of the 20th century was the Taliban's reign in Afghanistan? Is any government more responsible for clutural repression and destruction?

Um, how about the Soviet Union? They were pretty bad in terms of cultural repression and destruction.

...but I don't share it. The first two letters here illustrate what we are up against. First one must understand what Facism is and why no religion exists which is compatible with it, not Islam, not Christianity and certainly not Judaism. Certainly a Muslim or a Christian or a Jew (or a Hindu or what have you) can be a Facist also, and a Facist movement can even use religious symbolism to help put itself over on the people, but there is nothing about Facism which is innately relatable to a religion, nor to a race.

The Republican, neoconservative hate machine has created a new creature for us to fear, a new sort of bogeyman to replace the "Godless Communists" of a few years back. When that has burned out, the hate-filled will always find someone new as their whipping boy, and the ignorant will always jump on the newly repainted bandwagon and salute the new feuhrer who will, ironically, be the real Facist personified, alternately spewing lies and hate and tongue-kissing the nearest handy representative of the military-industrial complex for which Facism stands.

There are no Christo-Facists, there are no Islamo-Facists, there are no religiously-inspired facists. The only religions I can think of which might possibly have the potential to integrate facism are Scientology and perhaps Mormonism, although the latter seems to be moving in the opposite direction, its fair-haired boy Romney's naked intolerance notwithstanding. The same goes for Christianity's bastard son Huckabee. These are, respectively, people who claim membership in a religious sect and yet act in apposition to the teachings of said sect.

Unfortunately I fear there are still enough ignorant and hateful people who enjoy the status of American citizenship to make this idiot phenomenon viable in certain quarters. I hope to god I'm wrong. There's nothing I'd like better than to see bigotry blow up in the faces of those who use it to further their political agendae.

Perhaps Allah is willing.

"Can there be any doubt that one of the most repressive regimes on the face of the earth in the last half of the 20th century was the Taliban's reign in Afghanistan?"

Pol Pot and the Khamer Rouge made the Taliban look like amateurs.

The current regime in Myanmar? Taliban could look to them for ideas.

And elephant dung, you give a pass to the ritual tribal genocide that sweeps across Africa every couple of years like a prairie fire? It's more likely that you ignore it because you don't really give a damn what goes on in Africa. Remember Idi Amin?

You really should type your letters and put them aside for an hour, go take a crap, go for a walk, feed the goldfish, and then come back and read the ignorant stuff you scribble. Then you should delete it before sending.

In last week's spectacular display of his profound stupidity, our Baptist preacher tried to explain during the debate that Saddam could have had WMDs and we didn't find all the "Easter eggs" because they might have been smuggled across the border into "Jordan."

Putting aside how sad it is that there are still a dozen tin foil hat screwballs on Fox Noise who still believe there were WMDs. Gomer Pyle Huckster can't even read the Fox talking point machine correctly. It was supposed to be Syria, a country openly hostile to the United States that was the recipient of those illusive WMDs that never were. But Hucky said Jordan.

Jordan is an important ally of the United States and the royal family there has been a good partner for us in the so-called War on Tarrah.

Jordan, Syria, Hey they's all a bunch of ragheads, right Huckybuck? Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out.

What a great contribution to civilization Huckster could make.

If he would just commit suicide, that is.