From: "Roger A. Baker" <rabaker-AT-txol.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Antiterrorism = development of terror against ourstruggles
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:00:36 -0600


Good analysis Herald,

        I read something several years ago  by  Eqbql Ahmed published in
"against the Current," I believe, but I cannot get my hands on it.  The
thrust of this analysis of Islam was that every  "Islamic state" that
attempted to secularize it's society was smashed by the West, driving them
back into the arms of Islam.  If anybody has this article, please send  it
to me rabaker-AT-txol.net
thanks





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From: "Harald Beyer-Arnesen" <haraldba-AT-online.no>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Antiterrorism = development of terror against
ourstruggles


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amiri K. Barksdale <abarksdale-AT-mail.thenation.com>
> Date: 12. desember 2001 6:12
> Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Antiterrorism = development of terror against
> ourstruggles
>
>
> .Amiri, to be frank, I think your reply is absolutely nonsense.
> Islamism is a force that works effectively to subdue working
> class struggles. That is why it has also enjoyed so much
> support from various imperialist powers. The Islamists greatest
> enemy is "the left," however you define it, and then of course
> women ann every secular force there is. Their terror is foremost
> directed against "their own," and not against the US.  My view
> on this question is shared by every more or less social
> revolutionary person from the region I have ever met.
>
> Since Iran was one of the countries mentioned, Mohammad
> Ja'far and Azar Tabari in an article from 1981, draws a direct
> analogy to Zionism: (forget the language here still stuck in a
> Leninist heritage.)
>
> "To elucidate this point we will draw an analogy. [...] To arrive
> at a revolutionary socialist consciousness in Israel, that is for
> the Israeli working class to become convinced of the necessity
> to overthrow the bourgeoise state, it is necessary first to
> break with zionism ... anti-zionist demands, therefore, must
> form the central axis of a revolutionary programme in Israel.
> [...] To conclude:A revolutionary socialist programme for Iran
> today must include as its central plank hostility to the theocratic
> Islamic regime and the very idea of an Islamic republic [...]
> The break with Islam therefore takes on a transitional character
> in Iran today, in a similar sense to a break with zionism
> in Israel."
>
> Much of the argument leading up to these conclusion is lost
> here, and I do not necessary agree 100 per cent with every
> word (and on the party stuff I surely disagree) but it makes
> a hundred times much more sense than what you wrote.
>
> This is also a position generally shared by most social revolutionaries
> in the region, if for no other reason than it is forced upon them by
> realities, as a precondition for survival.
>
> Harald
>
>
>
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