Saturday, 5 February 2011

"Combating Extremism"?

Here?

The War Party has no problem with ghastly dictatorships. It has no problem with Islamists, including in Europe, and indeed in the Iraq where such forces have been unleashed by its actions. And it has no problem with Ba'athists, cheerfully encouraging and assisting the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI or MEK, but they are the same organisation) that moved during the Iran-Iraq War to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which until its own overthrow in 2003 provided most of the PMOI's money and all of its military assistance.

No, it is not made up of Arabs, and Ba'athism is supposed to be a form of Arab nationalism, founded, like so many such forms, by a Christian. But if there are Russian Nazis, increasingly in Israel because at least they are not Arabs, then there may as well also be Persian Ba'athists. And there are. In fact, in backing both the PMOI and Jundullah, the neocons are backing both the Ba'athists and the Sunni Islamists in relation to the same country. But it is that country. So that's all right, then. Isn't it?

In a comment on an earlier post, Campion asked, "Who has Cameron's "fundamental British values"? Do orthodox Catholics? Do mainline Evangelicals? Do traditionalist Anglicans? Do black Pentecostals? Who decides, and how?" We must hope to God that it is not decided by Struan Stevenson MEP.

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