NP - Everything is not Everything

[Ghetta Life]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1525172,00.html

"I feel the appeal, believe me. You are exasperated with the manifold faults 
of Tony Blair and George W Bush. Fighting your government is what you know 
how to do and what you want to do, and when you are confronted with 
totalitarian forces which are far worse than your government, the easy 
solution is to blame your government for them.

But it's a parochial line of reasoning to suppose that all bad, or all good, 
comes from the West - and a racist one to boot. The unavoidable consequence 
is that you must refuse to support democrats, liberals, feminists and 
socialists in the Arab world and Iran who are the victims of Islamism in its 
Sunni and Shia guises because you are too compromised to condemn their 
persecutors.

Islamism stops being an ideology intent on building an empire from Andalusia 
to Indonesia, destroying democracy and subjugating women and becomes, by the 
magic of parochial reasoning, a protest movement on a par with Make Poverty 
History or the TUC.

Again, I understand the appeal. Whether you are brown or white, Muslim, 
Christian, Jew or atheist, it is uncomfortable to face the fact that there 
is a messianic cult of death which, like European fascism and communism 
before it, will send you to your grave whatever you do. But I'm afraid 
that's what the record shows." - Nick Cohen, writing yesterday in London's 
Observer.

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