Revealed: The Secret Thread That Binds Our Enemies Together

by hilzoy

I normally read RedState for amusement, but today I found a diary whose implications are truly earth-shattering. (Boom!) The author, dahMich, is musing on Churchill's foresight in taking Hitler's statements about what he planned to do seriously when he says this:

"It is interesting to note that the name of his biography, Mein Kampf, translates into English as, "My struggle." It is of further note, that the tool by which radical Islam attempts its World domination, Jihad also translates into English as, "My struggle." Is this a coincidence? Hardly! It is because of this "coincidence" of World views that many of us choose to call the people we fight today by their real name, Islamofascists!"

As I read this paragraph, I had the sort of experience of blinding revelation that Pat Robertson must have felt when he began to realize just what George H. W. Bush meant by the New World Order, or that must have led Edward Casaubon to begin work on 'The Key to all Mythologies'. The scales fell from my eyes, apparently unconnected details began to relate themselves to one another, and in a flash and I realized both how vast and multifarious our present enemy is, and how deviously he has concealed the relationships between his different parts. Just think of the different movements that use words translated into English as "struggle", and gasp with horror at the thought that at bottom, they are all one:

Obviously, "class struggle" was one of the central concepts of Marxist-Leninism. After all, as Marx wrote, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." -- Or maybe I should say: class jihad!

Moreover, all Mao Zedong's enemies were, according to him, engaged in 'struggle': "After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly." But this was all a sham, since Mao and the CCP were themselves engaged in struggle: "Until late 1978, class struggle was the official line of the Chinese Communist Party." Apparently, both the Chinese revolution and the Sino-Soviet split were carried out by participants in "struggle". In the words of dahMich: "Coincidence? Hardly!"

There are millions of lesser allies of the Jihadist/Nazi/Leninist/Maoist/Kuomintang alliance of struggle: the Buddhist Struggle Movement in Vietnam in the mid-60s, the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, Chile's Movement of Homeless Workers in Struggle (and just think how many other tentacles of the enemy lie concealed beneath that innocuous-looking little word, 'lucha'), a multitude of struggles for Tamil independence in Sri Lanka, struggles in East Timor, peaceful struggles in Ethiopia, an International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, not to mention such exotical as the Zapatistas' Electronic Fabric of Struggle. (Nylon? Tulle?)

The idea that all these organizations and movements are secretly linked is breathtaking in its scope, and appalling in its implications. However, the worst is yet to come. Read the following two quotes, and shudder at how completely we have been betrayed by those we trusted the most:

First: "Man is divided in himself. As a result, the whole life of men, both individual and social, shows itself to be a struggle, and a dramatic one, between good and evil, between light and darkness." -- The Catholic Church? Bound up in the nexus of jihad that unites Hitler and Islamofascism? Teaching innocent young catechists to practice jihad and to start their own little kampfs? It's hard to believe. But not nearly as hard as this:

"We are now in the early hours of this struggle between tyranny and freedom."

That's right: our very own President! And it gets worse: if you search the White House website for 'struggle', you can find fully 1363 clues to our President's secret kinship with the Jihadist/Nazi/Leninist/Maoist/Kuomintang/Tamil/Zapatista/Papist/Homeless Chilean alliance of strugglers.

The very man we trusted to keep us safe turns out to be in cahoots with the enemy.

We are doomed. At least, according to RedState.

Comments

[Frank]

Seems more like a psychotic break than a revelation to me. I know you are kidding, but I don't find the mental illnesses of the right as funny as once I did.

[liberal japonicus]

Funny they should mention Churchill. I was googling around to check info on Kipling's son and got this.

I wonder what they might have to say about this?

[KCinDC]

Not only that, but Bush is always worried about keeping the base happy, and you know what "the base" is in Arabic.

[Bernard Yomtov]

And bear in mind that the 9/11 attacks were sudden, like a lightning strike, or, in German, blitz.

What more do you want?

[Fledermaus]

I have nothing to add except for the revelation that "Struggle" is a funny looking word. Sounds like it could be a muppet

[Gromit]

I was struck by the same thought upon reading this post, Fledermaus. Only I thought it might be a Dr. Seuss Character.

[godoggo]

Um, I assume "Kuominta" is supposed to be "Kuomintang". I wouldn't mention it, but you typed it that way twice.

[Jon Hendry]

Hilzoy,

And what of "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles?

Hm? Clearly a bit of deceptive naming there.

I think it's worse than you fear. This has been sapping the minds of Western youth for almost 30 years!

[cleek]

Struggle, Buggle.... Muggles!!!! the Islamists, the Maoists, our President, they're all ... Muggles!!!

Patronus!

(wherein i summon expensive tequila)

[KCinDC]

It's not as common as "struggle", but I see that a search produces 482 results for "fabulous". Now, what group could that indicate a connection to?

[Fledermaus]

Muggles!

Damn! I knew Ms. Rowling was on to something!

[Andrelas]

And my notion that all consciousness is virtual becomes even more entrenched.

[Andrew Frederiksen]

(and just think how many other tentacles of the enemy lie concealed beneath that innocuous-looking little word, 'lucha')

Just think, indeed.

[hilzoy]

godoggo: curiously, Kuomintang comes out correctly typed in my browser. Anyone else seeing it spelled wrong?

[SomeOtherDude]

Hitler was a Muslim?

Damn, and this whole time I thought he was Roman Catholic.

[HankP]

Thank goodness for the internet. It's so much easier to read stuff like this when it's not scrawled in crayon.

[godoggo]

Oh, I see, it's 'cause I like to make the fonts really big.

[liberal japonicus]

HankP. sounds more like letters cut out and glued on like a ransom note to me.

[muddy]

Getting into a wet bathing suit is a fascist act.

[Jesurgislac]

And you know what GOP stands for - and how God's Own Party translates into Arabic.

[Slartibartfast]

Seems more like a psychotic break than a revelation to me.

Or more like Revelations.

This sort of thing is, to me, not all that much different from some of the 9/11 conspiracy theories I've seen floated about. Which pretty much reduce to something like Coincidence? I think not!

Rosicrucians! Templars! Freemasons! Professional wrestlers!

I mean, who could miss the connection?

[Jon H]

"Damn, and this whole time I thought he was Roman Catholic."

Let's just say the Battle of Lepanto didn't go the way the history books say.

[upyernoz]

actually "jihad" can just be translated as "stuggle." my struggle would be jihadii

[Ugh]

Reading Bizarro World can do strange things to your brain.

[Slartibartfast]

Oh, and thanks to hilzoy for the reference to David Icke. Whee!

(Via the NWO link, if you must know)

[KCinDC]

Let's not forget the important documentary that John Carpenter made with Rowdy Roddy Piper, which anticipated Icke by several years.

[hilzoy]

I'm still waiting for someone to note the reference to Middlemarch...

[Ugh]

Let's not forget the important documentary that John Carpenter made with Rowdy Roddy Piper, which anticipated Icke by several years.

Best fight scene, evar! So good that South Park replicated it for the fight between Timmy and Jimmy.

[Nell]

I hope there's room in the vast conspiracy for Frederick Douglass:

Power concedes nothing without a struggle. It never did, and it never will. It may be a moral struggle, or it may be a physical struggle...

On the other hand, I've never seen the inspiring quotation sourced. And I don't have time to look it up now; off for Thanksgiving visit.

[Ugh]

Our leader's glorious war marches on.

Militias come to funerals and offer to carry out revenge attacks. Gunmen execute blindfolded people in full public view. Mortars are lobbed between Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods. Sometimes the killers seem to be seeking specific people who were involved in earlier attacks, but many victims lose their lives simply to even out the sectarian toll.

[bob mcmanus]

"I have nothing to add except for the revelation that "Struggle" is a funny looking word."

Me too.

struggle (v.) Online Etymology Dictionary

"c.1386, probably a frequentative form, of uncertain origin. Skeat suggests O.N. strugr "ill will;" others suggest a connection to Du. struikelen, Ger. straucheln "to stumble." The noun is first recorded 1692."

Why are some of us interested in etymology and linguistics? What is the point? I have been going to weird Sapir-Whorf places lately...

[Anderson]

Hm, didn't think I could be first with this after 30 comments ...

The title Mein Kampf was suggested by Hitler's publisher; it wasn't Hitler's.

Hitler wanted to call it Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice, but his publisher was afraid nobody would buy it.

So, obviously, his publisher was Muslim.

[Hogan]

Let's just say the Battle of Lepanto didn't go the way the history books say.

Someone should tell Gates of Vienna--they may want to redeploy.

[Jon H]

"The Secret Thread ..."

Hilzoy...

You don't mean to suggest that.. The Kabbalah Center is part of it?

Oh, and I should also note, it is clear in retrospect that in the early 80s Billy Idol was acting in support of the Caliphate when he sang of burkahs in his song, "Eyes Without A Face".

[cleek]

Why are some of us interested in etymology and linguistics?

because it's interesting! :)

[cleek]

more evidence that Bush is a muggle: look how awkward he and Putin look in their Wizard Robes.

mudblood!

[Slartibartfast]

he sang of burkahs in his song, "Eyes Without A Face".

Sha.

[Ugh]

Sy Hersh's lastest.

But many in the White House and the Pentagon insist that getting tough with Iran is the only way to salvage Iraq. "It's a classic case of 'failure forward,'" a Pentagon consultant said. "They believe that by tipping over Iran they would recover their losses in Iraq—like doubling your bet. It would be an attempt to revive the concept of spreading democracy in the Middle East by creating one new model state."
...
The Administration’s planning for a military attack on Iran was made far more complicated earlier this fall by a highly classified draft assessment by the C.I.A. challenging the White House’s assumptions about how close Iran might be to building a nuclear bomb. The C.I.A. found no conclusive evidence, as yet, of a secret Iranian nuclear-weapons program running parallel to the civilian operations that Iran has declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency. (The C.I.A. declined to comment on this story.)
...
A current senior intelligence official confirmed the existence of the C.I.A. analysis, and told me that the White House had been hostile to it. The White House’s dismissal of the C.I.A. findings on Iran is widely known in the intelligence community.
...
But some in the White House, including in Cheney’s office, had made just such an assumption—that “the lack of evidence means they must have it,” the former official said.

[JakeB]

"struggle (v.) Online Etymology Dictionary"

I originally read that v. as versus, as if it were a wrestling match, or struggle must never cease struggling!

[Slartibartfast]

But, speaking of -uggle words, a video.

[Tim]

Bush wants the hat trick: losing three wars.

[farmgirl]

I am so there with the Middlemarch ref, Hilzoy.

[Pooh]

We are doomed. At least, according to RedState.

Somehow, I think the RS crowd often defines "we" somewhat more narrowly than do the rest of us...

[grumpy realist]

OK, now we got the Islamists, the hippies, the moon-landers, the Templars, the Illuminati....Atlantis....

Who's next?

[Pooh]

OK, now we got the Islamists, the hippies, the moon-landers, the Templars, the Illuminati....Atlantis....

YEAARRGHHHH!

[Anarch]

What I Learned Today: There was a porn flick from the 1980s entitled "Max Bedroom".

I don't know how it fits in, but I'm sure with a little effort...

[Francis]

porn flick ... I don't know how it fits in

missed s3x ed? try here for some free lessons.

ps: definately NSFW.

[Anarch]

I completely agree. 404's should never be viewed in public.

[justdrivingby]

Oh my. I just got back from RedState. It reads like "Beavis and Butthead Discuss Politics." Apparently representative of the political discourse found on the site was some bizarre piece about how Olbermann got the domino theory wrong because in the years following Vietnam, a handful of tiny countries, some of which you've never heard of, flirted with Communism.
I honestly don't know how these people find their way to work every morning.