Towards a true popular front against facism

[Moon23]

Friends,
Essentially the reason why the BNP is gaining popularity is the left has failed to universally tackle fascism and extremism in all its guises. It has failed to be true Anifta. The working class see crypto-fascist organizations like the Taliban and Extremist Jihadist and cry out for a popular front to oppose it alongside other forms of fascism such a Nazism, and Racism. It's within this vacum people then believe that the BNP are the only solution, when really they simply hate all Muslims and will make the problem worse.
The Left has been too worried about the political consequences of speaking out against Islamic extremism for a number of reasons:
1. Islamic Extremism has been used as a justification by the state to wage wars, and remove essential liberties of the people.
2. Recognition of the problem of Islamic extremism could then be seen, to support the states medicine. For instance if those opposing the war banged the drum more loudly against Islamic extremism, then it might make the states argument for war seem stronger. This is a fallacy, in denying the problem there has been no opposing solution to tackle it.
3. As the state and media have demonized on group of people, the Left has tended to side with conservative forces within that demonized group that share the same ‘identity’ regardless of their views. This embrace of Identity politics has furthered the BNPs aims and goals.
Many genuine working class now turn to the EDL that does tackle extremism, but does so by defending the British state and establishment rather than any universal idea of freedom. As such the Establishment that enslaves working people and which interests serve only the ruling class has now become the rallying flag around which the working classes turn to show off the fascist threat of Islamic Extremism.
We need desperately to build a genuine popular front against all forms of extremism, whatever it’s guise for all people whatever their nation. We should smash the Ideological link perpetrated by the EDL between defending freedom and defending the nation state, but to do that we must have an inclusive popular front that speaks out against all forms of fascism.

[Ravachol]

This seems like another of those EDL buffoons with 5 posts trying to 'swell their ranks with the antifa' or something.
Listen honey, I'm sick and tired of explaining how far-right Islamism relates to fascism so HERE (http://www.revleft.com/vb/sharia-law-and-t120985/index.html) is a great thread about it. Read it and DON'T post here again until you've done so.

I'm really in favour of stickying that thread, if only to make this debate clear for once and for all to any genuine newcomer.

[Moon23]

Leaving aside your rude assertion that i'm some EDL stooge i'd be happy to debate that point if you so wished. Personally I was going by the definitiong given by Robert Paxton's in The Anatomy of Fascism. Vintage Books.

a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

Islamism is in my view a fascist hybridisation of the Islamic religion, in that it sets out a clear political goal of establishing Caliphate, a form of nation state within geographic areas under each control. The Caliphate is not much different from the Third Reich.

It is obsessed by community decline to such an extent that women who sleep with non-Muslims may be victims of 'honour killings', it certain areas it fits in with existing tribal elites and abandons democratic liberties and pursues redemptive violence for the aims of internal cleansing (crucifixion, beheading, stoning, beating children) and external expansion. (The desire to create a global caliphate, in places like the UK)

It is not religious in so far as true Muslims do none of this, in fact to call it Islamic extremism is a form of Islamaphobia as it implies there is something Islamic about it, and that it is just an extreme manifestation of it.
As an anarchist i'm committted to opposing all forms of Facisim and Authortarian rule, and as such i'm committed to opposing these facist extermists. In the absence of any Left or Anarchist opposition up untill now the void has been filled by the nationalistic and Islamaphobic EDL, who due to constant media lies by the capitalist media associate all Muslims with this facist Islamist ideology.