I'll bet the opposite. My beef with Spencer is that he does very little indeed to discourage the racists and hate-mongers who make up a considerable amount of his following. I volunteered to be moderator on his site for a few months, and gave up in despair, because the amount of hate, sometimes to genocidal pitch, was simply too much. Spencer may feel, because of his own background, that anything will serve so long as it serves to fight Islam; I do not. And then there is his friend Fitzgerald, the intellectual leader of Jihadwatch, who advocates the expulsion of all Muslims from the West and the transformation of the whole Muslim world into a kind of gigantic ring-fenced Indian reservation; an attitude I find both absurd and criminal. So yes, I do not think that Spencer would greatly object to "Islamo-Fascism". For that matter, Horowitz's arguments for assimilating Islam and Fascism are based on Umberto Eco's account of the Fascist mind, which is arguable but certainly not ignorant. (I wonder what he would do if he realized that Eco is an old-time leftie on the edges of Italian Communism?)
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Date: 2009-10-23 07:34 pm (UTC)