Europe is returning to Fascist ideology

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Some people attend their house of worship on a regular basis, some don't, some pray daily, some don't.

No wonder you are so terrified of Muslims if you think all of them are hardliners who believe the original text! Just stop reading the hateful right wing propaganda designed to convince you of that and see things for how they really are.

You can if you want but I think they'd rather have some food.

Apparently he wants "all" of them given the boot

He says all Muslims are this or all Muslims are that, yet he accuses them of thinking of absolutes

No The hardliners are the only true Muslims.

That is true. Luckily orthodoxy isn't popular in Christianity either otherwise we'd all be like the Amish

I cannot even begin to contemplate the sheer level of arrogance someone must have to think that they get to dictate to millions of people whether they are Muslims or not.

I cannot contemplate the sheer level of arrogance of someone who worships a God yet picks and chooses his commands.

A few years ago, a muslim man was convicted and sent to prison for raping a 14 year old girl. He was sentenced to 4 years in prison followed by deportation back to Afghanistan. While in prison, he claims to now have converted to Christianity. Suddenly he can't be deported, because apostates risk getting killed in Afghanistan. When questioned, he couldn't answer even the most basic questions regarding the Christian faith. How genuine do you think his conversion was, seeing as how apparently the only criterion for being a thing is saying that you are that thing?

Will you let the non-hardliners in then?

If they accept they are not Muslims and abandon Islam then I would be against a few of them coming over. If someone goes round calling themselves a Nazi yet do not hate Jews or other races they are clearly not a Nazi but are promoting Nazism by making it seem more reasonable.

Neither really qualifies as a medicine, just that the two reliably followed in sequence.

One of the more educated things I've heard about fascism in general is that it's something like a cultural immune response and it centers around disgust. Weimar was collapsed under the Treaty of Versailles enforced by western Europe, the living conditions were reminiscent of how Venezuela is right now, and to top it off communism was all the rage since everyone kept hearing just how well Lenin and Stalin were bringing things together and making the egalitarian society of the future (or at least the they kept what was happening well under wraps and all too many people bolstered their beliefs with that information gap).

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened in Germany. In fact I think Italy's the more interesting story because there appears to have been a different kind of progression without nearly as much duress and it hardly ever seems to get talked about, which worries me because if anything it's probably the much more accurate description of what fascism ends up being under more usual circumstances (not good I'm sure but the unfolding would be really important to understand for the lack of artificial crisis).

It never bodes well when a country (or union) has politicians telling the public that they're going to do whatever they want to do and any objection, no matter how sensible, means you're racist. In fact I could hardly think of something that would more quickly make enough desperate but relatively macho sorts feel like their future or their children's future will be destroyed if they don't take matters into their own hands (and to a degree they're probably even right! - the problem isn't that they're doing something, but as a populist reaction they'll be chasing whatever's most visible and easy to understand). When life gets intolerable people stop being politic and start getting pragmatic, and if both the far left and far right start promising real change that's exactly where they go.

Fascist

Noun
__1. A derogatory term liberals and conservatives use to insult each other.
__2. Someone who disagrees with me.

Fascism is very well-defined, and is neither of the above.

It was originally known as corporatism, where the State and private corporations act to achieve the interests of the State and private corporations. In other words, it is capitalist economy with heavy state influence over people's lives.

The heavy state influence manifest in personal freedom being suppressed. This can be done through heavy use of consription, up-bringing by the state, and the extermination of those with defects like mental illnesses, disabilities or other issues.

The joke is that those "definitions" describe how the term is of used on the internet.

Honestly I think at this point Fascist has two meanings the original Italian one and the one that just means Authoritarian big government. Its like the term luddite we use this as an insult too now even though it was a political movement.