Why are neocons still fighting WWII? It’s long since over.
Over at the Up Pompeii blog, AjukDD has written a post called ‘When Friends Attack.’
It seems to revolve around a rather convoluted incident in which commenters at a couple of counterjihad/neocon forums and blogs called certain others ‘fascists’ or Nazis, and this in turn led to charges that groups like CAIR were using these accusations of fascism to discredit the counterjihad movement. It’s all rather complicated, and in the midst of it were accusations (by some Americans) that the European nationalist parties, like http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1766, were ‘fascists’, and further, that Europeans in general were guilty of collaboration with Nazis in the past. The Europhobic comments which are typical of many of the neocon/counterjihadists (the two groups substantially overlap) began to fly, apparently, on some of these blogs.
This is an example of what I was referring to the other day when I blogged about the tendency to try to disavow the so-called ‘far right’, mainly those with nationalist sympathies, because the connection has been made between nationalists and Nazis, and to the simple of mind, nationalist=Nazi.Why are neocons still fighting WWII? It’s long since over. They are still stuck in their anti-Nazi, anti-European mode. We have new enemies now, real enemies and they aren’t just the ‘Islamofascists’, so-called.
And what’s up with that label? Do they have to tack on the ‘-fascist’ suffix to make it acceptable to hate the Islamic enemy?
This little incident, though it may appear to be a tempest in a teapot, is indicative of an attitude that is common on the right, and especially so among the neocon/mainstream Republican types.
http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2007/10/internecine-squabbles.html
The reason why the neocons fear and hate the nationalist opposition to Islamism is because the nationalists are genuine about their concerns, while the neocons are cynically working a separate agenda. What motivates the neocons is Israel, not the immediate demographic threat Europe faces from Islam. Indeed, the neocons largely support the very multiculturalism that has made the Islamic problem so acute. Unlike the neocons, nationalist opposition to Islam is rooted in the need to defend the West from a predatory religion that has repeatedly attacked our homelands ever since the Muslim hordes burst out of the Arabian peninsula, beginning with the Patriarchal Caliphate in 632 AD and continuing today as immigration. Israel is a latecomer to this struggle, and if Israel ceased to exist tomorrow Europe would still have to contend with an enormous, fecund Islamic population within her own heartlands. For the Zionist neocons to seek to police the anti-Islamist movement and dictate who may and may not speak out against the Islamic threat is the sign both of their hubris and of their awareness that a European resurgence based at least in part on a crusade against Islam in Europe will re-ignite European self-awareness and endanger the multicult edifice, something those operating as neocons fear much more than Islam itself.