Repent ye wicked. Repent!

Al-Qaeda has called on the US to convert to Islam. That’s not particularly surprising, but I think it adequately illustrates the point I was trying to make here about some of the quotes I read here. Long story short: Islam has a serious problem with fascism on its hands.

Yet some clearly hesitate to call it such. Why? If fascism is defined as a form of hyper-nationalism that seeks to concentrate power in the hands of an authoritarian state, what better word could you use? Replace hyper-nationalism with a pan Islamist desire to subjugate the Middle East under a single Medieval Caliphate and there you have it: Islamic fascism.