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Entry: Islamo-Foosball Awareness Week Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/islamo_foosball_awareness_week#10196 Post contents: All this talk of fascism made me remember an incident in my teens. Our school building had been slightly vandalized one night, by a few drunken lads, resenting this their only alma mater. On a wall they had spraypainted crude genitalian imagery, as well as unfounded allegations about our headmaster's sexual orientation. Come daylight, our janitor, a solemn Communist, stormed into the teacher's lounge to loudly announce "Now the fascists are here!" This utterly irrelevant use of the term "fascist", has only now been bettered, by American thinkers applying it to radical Islamists. The term is today used to conjure up images of dangerous military might, Panzer divisions, and polished boots. Never mind that a large part of the Jihadists are just bearded guys living in caves. Fascism is a good enemy because it has been beaten before, and therefore can be beaten the same way again. The danger here is that the Islamist terrorists actually have means to harm our societies, and daydreaming about Mussolini prevents us from seeing the actual enemy as he really is, with all his strengths and weaknesses. A more relevant case might be Europe's victory over Communist terror groups, the RAF, the Red Brigades and the likes. They were ruthless and organized, and had much support on the fringes of the political movement. They were capable of hurting a civilian society quite deeply. Still, hard police work and intelligence gathering prevailed, and they are all but forgotten today. There might be a lesson in there somewhere... Sent at: 2008 05 16