Kesher Talk

Islamofascism.

In a speech that he gave at Columbia University, Umberto Eco spelled out fourteen features that he considered were typical of Eternal Fascism (which he also calls Ur-Fascism ); adding however this explanatory detail: " These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it."

The author then goes on to relate each of these features to traditional Islam.

posted by Judith @ 3/25/2003 03:04:06 PM