Oswald Mosley was the leader of the British Union of Fascists during the 30's, which Orwell derided as 'pimply blackshirts'.
Apparently Mosley's a distant relative of mine (according to my mum).
Anyway whilst touring the BUF wiki I came across this charming statement.
In answer to a question about the Blackshirt attitude towards Jews, Sir Oswald Mosley said:- "We will not tolerate within the State a minority organized against the interests of the State. Jews must either put the interests of Britain before the interests of Jewry or they will be deported from Britain."
Now, if we replaced 'Jew' with 'Muslim' and Britain with Australia, doesn't that ringingly sound familiar?
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Funny hey... I've seen the parallels pointed out before, in regard to modern US society. Of course the people who spout that sort of stuff deny it vehemently, because apparently you have to wear a funny moustache and say 'heil hitler' to be a fascist. And everyone knows that fascism is jew-specific, right? So if you say stuff like that about muslims it can't be fascist!
ReplyDeleteNot to mention their attempts to re-market resistance/nationalist/fundamentalist groups as "Islamo-fascist".
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