As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.
A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.
The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism. It is only by refusing to be in denial, by looking the enemy in the eye, that one can avoid conflating issues.
Fascism is very much a mob movement.
Fascism is a religious concept.