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I hear you marched in your thousands against my religion. Last week, and last month. You marched against immigrants, foreigners, and anyone a shade darker. I will not draw comparisons to Nazi Germany. I will not call you bigots, I will not insult you... (Rabah Kherbane, 'A Muslim's Response to the 25,000 Anti-Islam Protesters in Germany', Huffington Post UK 18/01/2015)

‎'Islamisation' across the nations, you think? Rabah Kherbane questions that notion: 'A pretty lousy colonisation process, no?' Please read the article quoted above, 'A Muslim's Response...', from beginning to the end.

And then you can start complaining and exclaiming that Pegida (self-proclaimed 'Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization ‪of the West') and other counter-jihadist organisations or movements or politicians are not racist, not against all muslims, not far-right, not islamophobic, not xenophobic, not-this-and-not-that, &c &c.

Correct me if I am mistaken, but it seems to me that one paradoxical thing about Pegida is that its leader Lutz Bachmann (whose mask has definitely fallen and revealed a Hitler-moustached racist underneath) drew the initial inspiration to found the movement from a demonstration in Dresden that demanded military support, namely arms, for the Kurds to fight ISIS in Northern Syria. Pegida was 'initially ... mainly directed against arms shipments to the PKK' (Wikipedia), namely to the Kurdish party that defends the multi-cultural population of Kobani and other parts of the Kurdistan area against Jihadist terror!

If Bachmann's kind of 'counter-jihadism' is not hypocritical, I don't know what is. The real resistance to 'Islamisation' (if we can recycle and mis-use that stupid label for the utterly disgusting terror whose aim is to create a theocratic, fascist caliphate) does not take place on the streets of Dresden.

Pegida was founded to counter the leftist, Kurdish PKK, and not to act against islamist extremism and terrorism. It is the Kurds who are involved in armed resistance, putting their lives at stake, against the so-called 'Islamic State'.

So, as preposterous as it may seem, in choosing to react against the fantasy of an 'Islamisation of the West' and thus ignore the nature of the more or less violent antagonisms within 'the Islamic world' (namely the muslims who are exposed to the threat of the jihadist type of fascism and who defend themselves and 'others' against it), Pegida is rather in league with the radical 'islamist' terrorists than with those who really fight against the 'jihadists'. The strategical goal of the jihadist is the same as that of the counter-jihadist: to propagate the fundamental incommensurability of 'the Islamic' and 'the Western'.

Mirkka Rekolan (26.6.1931–5.2.2014) runo kokoelmasta Taivas päivystää (1996).

Jää hyvästi.

  7.2.2014