They are vehemently against abortion, they resist progressive woman’s rights. They view homosexuality as a crime against nature and God, some advocate the death penalty as an option for it. Separation of Church and State is despised by these folks; they insist the nation is founded on the principles of their religion, and they work hard to bring that de facto theocracy about. They deplore strong language, gay characters, and sexual content on TV and in the media. And they ignore the Geneva Convention when it suits their ideological purposes, including provisions against torture or due process. They’re anti-stem cell research, pro-creationism, and generally distrustful of science. These folks are easily whipped into a state of frenzy with ideological manipulation to the point where they will commit violence, or at least tacitly endorse that violence is acceptable, if it advances their Divine agenda. They then take great pains to justify that violence, including unprovoked attack of civilian areas, under certain conditions, with convoluted theological gymnastics. They are almost to the man pro-death penalty
DarkSyde is, of course, talking about Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalist Wahabism that Osama subscribes to, along with hundreds of millions of others, more and more each day. In a typically well-written article, he calls bullshit on Fox News and others who compare bin Laden to Michael Moore and other gadflies of the left, and he tells it like it is: “It’s the Neocon, fundie dominated, GOP that is the closest thing to fanatical Wahhabism in our nation today and there’s no major political faction anywhere near giving them a run for the money.”
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