Blogging will be light this week due to my schedule at WPRO.

The Times of London is excerpting a book called "Celsius 7/7" by Michael Gove. In this excerpt, Gove asserts that Islamism is a revolutionary attempt to remake society, in much the same way that the Nazis and Soviet Communists tried to do.

Islamism is a twentieth-century phenomenon. Like its sibling ideologies, fascism and communism, it offers followers a form of redemption through violence. Like fascism, Islamism envisages the creation of a purified realm purged of toxic outside influences and internal corruption. Like communism, Islamism is not ethnically exclusive, it seeks to enlist new converts through proselytisation, political education and military advances. Like both, it reserves a special hatred for the West, for political freedom the separation of the public and private realms, dissent, sexual tolerance and a belief in the sanctity of individual life. And like both it finds a dark and furious energy in hatred towards the Jewish people.

It is a very interesting analysis. Read the whole thing.