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Move Over, Islamofascists

by John Cole|  August 12, 200811:55 am| 41 Comments

This post is in: I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To

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K-Lo’s House of Crazy:

“Fascislamism” [Mike Potemra]

It’s Bernard-Henri Levy’s word for that segment of the Muslim world that defines itself through support for political violence and oppression. In his forthcoming book Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism, he has also unearthed a great quote from the journal of the writer Paul Claudel. From May 21, 1935: “Hitler’s speech: a kind of Islamism is being created at the center of Europe . . . “

Now not only do we have to worry about the Islamofascists, but the Fascislamists and the Liberal Fascists. And don’t even get me started on the wankers at the People’s Front of Judea.

I have lost track of how many times the Corner has taken to imitating Monty Python.

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  1. 1.

    cleek

    August 12, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    “Fascislamism” ?

    that K-Lo’s one crazy mutha-zizzlamism fuc-kizzlamism ! fuh shizzlamism!

  2. 2.

    junkiebrewster

    August 12, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    I, for one, am a Liberal Islamofacislamist.

  3. 3.

    Brother Flaming Taser of Warm Reason

    August 12, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    Now if only they could imitate the Judean People’s Front crack Suicide Squad.

  4. 4.

    CapMidnight

    August 12, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    The least they could do is make up terror words that are easier to pronounce.

  5. 5.

    Brachiator

    August 12, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    cleek Says:

    “Fascislamism” ?

    that K-Lo’s one crazy mutha-zizzlamism fuc-kizzlamism ! fuh shizzlamism!

    The way these neoconservative clowns create new terror genres is a page right out of Shakespeare’s Hamlet:

    Polonious: The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited.

  6. 6.

    4tehlulz

    August 12, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    Hitler’s speech: a kind of Islamism is being created at the center of Europe . . .

    I…words fail me.

  7. 7.

    CFisher

    August 12, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    Conservative pundits would be a great source of endless humor and entertainment if so many people didn’t take them seriously.

  8. 8.

    Zifnab

    August 12, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    I…words fail me.

    /Hands 4tehlulz a napkin and a drool cup.

    Yeah, stuff like this has that effect on more than a few. What scares me is the people who don’t try to pound the stupid out of their heads the minute they’re finished reading.

    This, ladies and gentlemen, is the bold contribution of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists of the Intertrons. Inventing new, increasingly unpronounceable names to call your enemies. It’s like 3rd Grade all over again, except someone somewhere who is reading this drivel has his hand hovering over the nuclear button.

    *sigh*

  9. 9.

    AlanM

    August 12, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    “Time will pardon Paul Claudel, Pardon him for writing well.”

    Auden.

    K-Lo…not so much.

  10. 10.

    Ed Drone

    August 12, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Soon we will see the enemies of Islamofascism square off against the enemies of Fascislamism for the rights to the term “Cryptislamodemofascislamisticism.”

    Ed

    [“Cryptislamodemofascislamisticism” © 2008 Ed Drone; all rights reversed.

  11. 11.

    cleek

    August 12, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Cryptislamodemofascislamisticism is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious !

  12. 12.

    garyb50

    August 12, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    Christ, I wish I had even one little clue as to what that means.

  13. 13.

    bootlegger

    August 12, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    I love the way they always couch some nasty bit of human nature as “new”. Now it’s the New Barbarism, as though there was some not-so-long-ago age free of barbarism. Perhaps during the 1970’s? Yeah baby, that’s when Idi Amin put a sack of hammers in a prison cell with all his political enemies and told them last one standing goes free.

    I’ve had similar arguments with Wingnuts who argue that the 20th century was the bloodiest century evah, then blame it on secularism or Darwin. Right. Like putting entire cities to the sword, practiced all the fucking time back in the day, wasn’t somehow bloody.

    It’s particularly ironic given that their model of human thought is rationality and they assume that people are capable of great evil (hence the need for punishment and big guns).

    BTW JC, I love the Monty Python clips, makes my day every time.

  14. 14.

    Third Eye Open

    August 12, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    dime-store neologists…

    I’ll stick with just being a beer drinking misanthropist and call it a day.

  15. 15.

    The Moar You Know

    August 12, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Goddammit I am so sick of this shit.

  16. 16.

    Brother Flaming Taser of Warm Reason

    August 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    I’ve had similar arguments with Wingnuts who argue that the 20th century was the bloodiest century evah, then blame it on secularism or Darwin. Right. Like putting entire cities to the sword, practiced all the fucking time back in the day, wasn’t somehow bloody.

    This bears repeating and it bears further repeating to include that those cities and people were put to the sword in the name of religion.

  17. 17.

    bootlegger

    August 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Cryptislamodemofascislamisticism is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious !

    Lib-ruls are always using them big words to confuse us Murkans.

  18. 18.

    daryljhusseinfontaine

    August 12, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    I thought they were the Islamopopular Fascist Front?

    D

  19. 19.

    MikeJ

    August 12, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    It is ironic that the theme of the GOP convention was announced today to be “Putting Country First”. K-Lo ends the post with, “There is a universal dynamic at work, whenever a fetishization of the collective is allowed to gather steam. “

  20. 20.

    dadanarchist

    August 12, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    Since when did wingnuts get a hard-on for French writers?

    BHL (as Bernard Henri-Levy is known in France) is a total ass, a media philosopher, not taken seriously by anyone with half a mind.

    While he has more substance than Jonah Goldberg, that’s only because he got a real education.

  21. 21.

    bootlegger

    August 12, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    This bears repeating and it bears further repeating to include that those cities and people were put to the sword in the name of religion.

    Sometimes, particularly the Christian Crusaders. But I think more often than not it was punishment for not surrendering the city and the savage bloodlust that accompanies battle.

  22. 22.

    Wilfred

    August 12, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Off topic but pretty interesting:

    Cyberspace Barrage Preceded Russian Invasion of Georgia

    By JOHN MARKOFF
    Published: August 12, 2008

    Weeks before physical bombs started falling on Georgia, a security researcher in suburban Massachusetts was watching an attack against the country in cyberspace.

    A screen grab of the Georgian Parliament Web site, parliament.ge, which had been defaced by the “South Ossetia Hack Crew.” The site’s content had been replaced with images comparing Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, to Adolf Hitler.

    Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks in Lexington noticed a stream of data directed at Georgian government sites containing the message: win+love+in+Rusia.

    Other Internet experts in the United States said the attacks against Georgia’s Internet infrastructure began as early as July 20, with coordinated barrages of millions of requests — known as distributed denial of service, or D.D.O.S., attacks — that overloaded certain Georgian servers.

    The Georgian government blamed Russia for the attacks, but the Russian government said it was not involved.

    Researchers at Shadowserver, a volunteer group that tracks malicious network activity, reported that the Web site of the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had been rendered inoperable for 24 hours by multiple D.D.O.S. attacks. The researchers said the command and control server that directed the attack, which was based in the United States, had come online several weeks before it began the assault.

    As it turns out, the July attack may have been a dress rehearsal for an all-out cyberwar once the shooting started between Georgia and Russia.

    According to Internet technical experts, it was the first time a cyberattack had coincided with a shooting war. But it will likely not be the last, said Bill Woodcock, the research director of the Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit that tracks Internet traffic. He said cyberattacks are so inexpensive and easy to mount, with few fingerprints, that they will almost certainly remain a feature of modern warfare.

  23. 23.

    Cap'n Phealy

    August 12, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    Splitter!

  24. 24.

    demkat620

    August 12, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    I betcha he got dizzy thinking about how cool he was after he wrote that.

    “I just created a new enemy!”

  25. 25.

    David Hunt

    August 12, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    I betcha he got dizzy thinking about how cool he was after he wrote that.

    “I just created a new enemy!”

    Give the poor schlub a break. Creating enemies is one of the few things they’re good at.

  26. 26.

    calipygian

    August 12, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    On the other hand, the Derb passed on the crack pipe today:

    Either you believe the U.S.A. ought to commit — in writing — that we shall go to war on behalf of Georgia (Estonia, the Ukraine, etc.), or you believe we ought not.

    If you do believe it, as our President does (or else what were all those efforts to get Georgia and Ukraine into NATO about?) then you ought honestly to admit the nonzero probability that Putin, or some future Putin, will call our bluff. Then we shall be at war with Russia. On behalf of Georgia. (“The U.S.A. should commit to go to war against Russia on behalf of Georgia” — anyone care to estimate how that would poll among the U.S. population?)
    ….

    At this moment, Putin & his pals are rolling around the Kremlin floor laughing helplessly at our stupidity and gullibility. As a patriotic American, I don’t like to contemplate that. What could we do to wipe the smiles off their faces, though? Bomb Moscow? They know we’re not going to do that. That’s why they’re still laughing. Game, set, and match to Putin.

    When I 100% agree with the Derb, it makes me want to make sure I’m not Calipygian +12

  27. 27.

    libarbarian

    August 12, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    Who’s afraid of Cryptislamodemofascislamisticism when THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING??

    I’d be interesting in seeing the percentage of foreign policy “crises” which the Kagans haven’t analogized to Hitler in 1938. I’d bet its not a large number.

  28. 28.

    Brachiator

    August 12, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    Brother Flaming Taser of Warm Reason Says:

    This bears repeating and it bears further repeating to include that those cities and people were put to the sword in the name of religion.

    Not really true. The Vikings, for example, put people to the sword just for the sheer thrill of it.

  29. 29.

    Sirkowski

    August 12, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    The Neo-Cons are taking their cues from the French now? They shall now be known as “Nouveaux-Cons”.

    Hon! Hon! Hon!

  30. 30.

    Delia

    August 12, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    Not really true. The Vikings, for example, put people to the sword just for the sheer thrill of it.

    Well, yeah, for starters. But then they settled down on the land they stole, began keeping cows and making cheese. And composing long epics with lots of alliteration.

  31. 31.

    Brother Flaming Taser of Warm Reason

    August 12, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    Brachiator Says:

    Brother Flaming Taser of Warm Reason Says:

    This bears repeating and it bears further repeating to include that those cities and people were put to the sword in the name of religion.

    Not really true. The Vikings, for example, put people to the sword just for the sheer thrill of it.

    True, it was all part of their conquest and pillage strategies, however that was viewed favorably under their own religious traditions (though religion was not the sole factor). The claim that the 20th century was the bloodiest ever with secularism as being partially to blame is complete and utter horseshit and ignores a long history of violence and war in the name of various religions, christianity being only one of many.

  32. 32.

    rawshark

    August 12, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    You’re all a bunch of BalloonJuicifascists.

  33. 33.

    Wilfred

    August 12, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    The Mongols destroyed everything in their path and built nothing in its place. They were responsible for the destruction of the zenith of Islamicate civilization from Northeastern Afghanistan to Syria, something that Islamic civilization never really recovered from. Baghdad suffered terribly

  34. 34.

    binzinerator

    August 12, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    Hello I am just reading this blog with my wife and our au-pair and I’d like to say how shocked we are that a pleasant collection of Norwegian folk songs should be turned into an excuse for Islamofascist-Fascislamists propaganda of the shoddiest kind.

    What’s gone wrong with the world? I can’t even take a bath without 6 or 7 Islamofascist-Fascislamists jumping in with me. They’re in my shirt cupboard and bin Laden and al-Zawahiri are in the kitchen now eating my wife’s jam!

    Ohhh! They’re climbing up my legs!! I can see them peeping out of my wife’s blouse!!!

    WHY DOESN’T MR. MCCAIN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!!111!!1!

    AHHH!!!

  35. 35.

    Delia

    August 12, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    The Mongols destroyed everything in their path and built nothing in its place.

    Hey, the Mongols didn’t stop with Islam. They swept all the way through Asia, including China and Korea. Only Japan escaped. According to Wikipedia, the Mongols didn’t even invent the barbecue that bears their name.

  36. 36.

    Brachiator

    August 12, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    Brother Flaming Taser of Warm Reason Says:

    Brachiator Says:

    The Vikings, for example, put people to the sword just for the sheer thrill of it.

    True, it was all part of their conquest and pillage strategies, however that was viewed favorably under their own religious traditions (though religion was not the sole factor). The claim that the 20th century was the bloodiest ever with secularism as being partially to blame is complete and utter horseshit and ignores a long history of violence and war in the name of various religions, christianity being only one of many.

    The long history of violence and war in the name of religion is largely a myth. And even here other myths are more interesting. The myth of the Trojan War bases years of bloodshed on little more than lust and ego. Athens and Sparta fought over ideology, power, and territorial rivalry. Alexander of Macedon made use of the superstitious power of religion to sell himself as a god, but it had little to do with his scorched-earth ambitions. The Persians kicked ass all over, but allowed the survivors to keep their own religions. Zulu expansion was rapacious, but was more cultural than religious-based.

    Genghis Khan, the Moguls, the Tokugawa Shogunate. Even with many of the European Wars during the Christian era, religion was an excuse for other motives.

    And ironically, many of the neo-cons who want to rail against secularism exploit phony claims about Islamo-fascism in order to make more palatable a fetid, war-mongering brand of American exceptionalism.

    As always, Star Trek is the source of wisdom on this point:

    Kirk: [War] is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We’re human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop it. We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill – today!

  37. 37.

    Cain

    August 12, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    Knowing that we’re not going to kill – today!

    haha, you put in teh dramatic pause. I can actually see Kirk saying that.

    cain

  38. 38.

    dadanarchist

    August 12, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    “They shall now be known as “Nouveaux-Cons”.”

    Brilliant!

  39. 39.

    jake

    August 12, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    “Fascislamism”

    Oo, oo! Maybe Bush will try to pronounce that one!

  40. 40.

    Big E

    August 13, 2008 at 12:18 am

    re: “Fascislamism”

    I had mine removed last time I was in the hospital, damned nurses and their rubber gloves…. OUCH BABE!

  41. 41.

    grumpy realist

    August 13, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    *sigh*…so it looks like we’re back to having another “war started over a damn foolish thing in the Balkans”?

    Time to haul out the A.J.P. Taylor again….which is why I say that nobody, bar none, is more cynical and realistic about humans than a damn good bloody historian.

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