"World Purificationism"

(Background / related issues) New Age / Aquarian Age / Planetary Cleansing
/ Sword of Cleavage / Theosophy / Bailey / Maitreya and so on. Do your own
leg work, if interested or unaware of the above (only because it's 2 am here)


(via asorted blogs & web sites) search "World Purificationism" /
Purificationism (etc)


Will islam prove to be an end, or simply a means to an end in bringing about
a "purified" world, "free" of both Empire (especially
the USA) and Zionism
(especially Israel?).

The source document:

http://spme.net/library/pdf/PurifyingtheWorld.pdf


(a couple of extracts)

[...]

Purifying the World: What the New Radical Ideology Stands For
by Ernest Sternberg

Ernest Sternberg teaches at the University at Buffalo, State University
of New York.

Abstract: The past decade has seen the coalescence of a new ideology that
envisions social movements in a cataclysmic struggle against global
capitalist Empire. Controlled by U.S. militarism and multinational
corporations, in cahoots with Zionism, Empire contaminates environments 
and destroys cultures.

Its defeat will bring about a new era of social justice and sustainable
development, in which the diverse cultures harmoniously share the earth.
Is this a totalitarian ideology? From fascist and communist precedents,
we learn that lovers of renewed humanity are not sufficiently motivated
by abstract ideals. They must also identify humanityAEs enemy, the cause 
of all suffering.

Equipped with a scapegoat, diverse communities can achieve solidarity
through shared execration.

[...]

The Enemy of Humanity 1: The United States

This is the first warning sign: that purificationism has found the new
enemy of humanity. For former ideologies, it was the global parasitical
race or brutal master class. It is now the fiendish, U.S.-dominated global
system that kills untold numbers, keeps billions in misery, threatens
environmental cataclysm, subverts cultures, and blocks the advent of world
harmony. Note that, in the Galloway quotes, the United States'
monstrousness cannot rest simply on its savagery in having caused so many
deaths. It is also guilty of killing cultures.

[...]

The Enemy of Humanity 2: Israel

Another warning sign is that Anti-Zionism pops up in the most unlikely
places and in remarkably virulent forms. At the World Social Forum meeting
at the mouth of the Amazon, 5,000 miles from Jerusalem, packed with over
100,000 purifiers from around the world, demonstrations against Israel
count as one of the three foremost accomplishments.50 In Durban, South
Africa, hundreds of governmental groups and NGOs meet allegedly to fight
racism, but ignore its genocidal manifestations in Africa, and can agree
only to condemn Israel. In the United States the Green party condemns
Israel as its sole piece of foreign policy. In Britain, unionized academics
vote each year to boycott Israel. In Toronto, a demonstration for equal
wages displays anti-Israel placards as does a demonstration in France
against the loss of appellation for Roquefort cheese.

What does "the defense of the true Roquefort," asks Pierre-Andre
Taguieff - France's premier author on anti-Semitismuhave to do with
Palestinians or Israelis? His answer is the "neo-communism that does not
speak its name." The neo-communists, as Taguieff calls them, thrive on the
myth of the Palestinians as the authentic humiliated people, "the offended
par excellence," the pure representation of the aeaedominated and the
oppressed."

Correspondingly, in "the demonized figure of Jews-Israelis-Zionists
supported by the Americans, "the new ideologues have "Zionism as an
incarnation of absolute evil."51

Why Israel? The clue is the variety that Taguieff observes in the new
movement: Islamists, Arab Nationalists, post-Christian humanitarians,
thirdworldists, and anti-globalizers of various stripes.52 This is the
movement's ticklish problem: how to keep so much diversity in check.
If Empire is too abstract as a nemesis, and the United States seems
too formidable, Israel represents a scapegoat manageable enough in
size, and devilish enough in the popular imagination.

[...]


Steve

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