How come China and Cuba always support mullahs in Iran? It is foolish if I think they don't know being a communist in Iran leads you to death and turture. Has anybody ever heard of China/Cuba/USSR being worried about human right in Saudi Arabia for not allowing communist parties? On the other hand the condition of muslims in China/North Korea is far more worse than Isreal, they don't even have the right to practise their religion, have you ever heard bin Ladan threat them? Muslim fundamentalists always say they want to take revenge for their martyrs in war agains USA, how about muslims in Chechen? You just try some muslims randomly and ask them if they choose between China and Israel to live. If only one in ten chooses china I join Bin Ladan - on codition that I don't kill anybody -. A commrade and an Ayat-o-Allah??? One theory is that perhaps they are brothers in root. .
The biggest difference between Islam and Communism is that Islam believes that free will exists. Otherwise, both works against capitalism. Anyway, both have a common enemy for different reasons.
China doesn't take $hit from anyone. If Bin laden wanted to do something serious to China, you could expect a change in arab map. China could literally boat people to the middle east and the swamp of people would be too overwhelming if they got released on the arab penisula. Other than Russia (and us), I would say China could kick anyone elses ass. **Who knows what Russia or China are up to....
China and Russia trying a strategycal game to get better positions. China is very tough on religions though, but 8000 daily converts to Christianity and often supported secretly by local politicians tells also about the positive trend. They found out that everywhere where are converts , everything functions better.
Owing to Russia's current economic debacle, they have pretty much ceased to be a military threat to the US. On the other hand, China is currently undergoing a massive rebuilding and refitting of its military, which until even five years ago was fairly pathetic in regard to technological warfare. You might remember that a few months ago they send their first astronaut up, and quite a bit of their ability to do this is is a direct byproduct from their ongoing missile researches. To try to get back to the salient point of this post however, it's definitely true that the Chinese government doesn't have very much time for foreign religions. Heck, you've probably seen some of the stuff that they do to their own people just for practicing Falun Gong, and I'm pretty sure that that's more of a philosophy than a religion. The current Chinese leadership is quite intelligent and that they are allowing economic restructuring in the hopes of forestalling any kind of changes in their autocratic political system. All we can hope for is that it backfires on them, and that the rise of a moneyed middle-class will lead to greater demands for political freedoms. JP
To me facsism seems closer to islam than communism. The way women are treated, lets look at Hitler, he believed woman are good for housework and making babies, pretty much the same as islam... The way the whole nation has to come together and unite (Hitler), replace this with islam instead of a nation... Be willing to die for it etc... The belief that life is not about the individual but about society as a whole, islam always claims that the individual is not that important, same as facsism Hating jews, let me say no more Hating capitalism and its decadence, let me say no more I know this post will insult some people, but i think its easy to see the similarities, i hope someone will agree with me.
Fascism is not an ideology that hitler invented. Better to call Hitler an Islamist then Yeah but it's the same thing with communism, right? Yeah but communism isn't invidualistic either. According to communism, the society or the group is much more important than the invidual. They are supposed to not be friend with any non-moslem. Christians and Jews are however their so called 'allies' according to the quoran. Communism is pro-capitalism??
It is not just the matter of governments. Look at socialist/communist parties around the world specially in free world. Shouldn't they at least appreciate the fact that their commrads in Iraq are now allowed to have a communist party and take part in election? Ridiculesly even those in Iraq don't appreciate this - Kurdish socialist parties are exceptional in this matter -. .