‘Imperialism and religious fundamentalism feed each other’ say Communists

[IndianaGreen]

‘Imperialism and religious fundamentalism feed each other’ say Communists

By CP of Britain

7-18-05,9:30am

‘Imperialism generates the conditions in which religious fundamentalism can thrive and spread’, Avtra Sadiq of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) told a well-attended seminar at the weekend.

‘US and British governments back corrupt Arab governments which themselves have encouraged Islamic fundamentalists to attack democratic and left forces, leaving the fundamentalists with their anti-poverty and anti-corruption appeal as the only political alternative’, he told the meeting at Ruskin House, Croydon.

‘Yet they have no real alternative programme to unite people against landlordism and exploitation, nor any vision for the future’, Mr Sadiq declared.

Navid Shomali of the Tudeh Party of Iran reminded the audience that the US Central Intelligence Agency and Britain’s MI6 had played a central role in bringing down the democratic, secular and nationalist government of Mossadeq in Iran in 1953.

‘This cleared the way for the brutal regime of Western puppet-shah Pahlavi and his SAVAK secret police, where the mosque was the safest place to build opposition’.

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/1504/1/109/

[Flubadubya]

1. Hah! I thought it would be a treatise on Christian fundamentalism...

and how the rise in imperialistic impulses in a country parallel a rise in fundamentalism within the "state" church (Christianity).

Oh well, I bet somebody could make a case for that one too. Would make somebody a good Ph. D. project. Bwahahah!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. This is spot on

and the same argument can be made for the US-the imperialists of this country court the fundamentalists so that they will support corrupt regimes like Bushco.

[ladjf]

3. Religious fundamentalism is at it's base imperialistic. They

crave an Empire of God, their God.