Hugo Chavez and the Anomaly of Latin American Islamization
"How
can they reconcile undigested readings of Marx with the most fundamentalist
version of the Quran? How do they marry the postmodern imitators of Che Guevara with the bearded, tie-less types
defending the most tyrannical form of Islam? How do you raise the banner of
liberty while supporting one of the fiercest dictatorships on earth?"
This isn't the first time
Chávez and Ahmadinejad have gotten lovey-dovey. They kiss, hug, sign agreements,
walk hand in hand, and in a thrall of delirium, they bestow fervent praise on
one another. Confessions of love between monsters.
Both Hugo and Mahmoud rhyme
with the many forms of the verb "to oppress", from the brutal option
of Islamo-fascism to the more camouflaged version of Bolivarian pseudo-fascism.
In both countries, individual freedom is persecuted and political opposition
castrated. The authorities threaten their critics, clamp down on media and
confiscate property. The gurus of power increase their enormous wealth while
poverty makes inroads among the people. Both possess the black gold, and far
from using it to liberate their countries and lift them out of poverty, they utilize
economic power to keep their respective peoples in a state of stagnation and despair.
They are modern expressions
of the evil tyrant: In Chávez' case, wearing the mask of a tin-pot dictator; while
in the case of his Iranian counterpart, there is no camouflage at all. And, although
it certainly isn't strange that such rulers should unite, it is also true that
their alliance exponentially increases the risk they represent. Chávez is the
door through which radical Shiite Islam enters South America - to the point of Islamizing
indigenous peoples - and it is the guarantor of the already deep inroads extreme
Islam has made into Latin America. Moreover, along with his Bolivarian friends,
Chavez is the most robust supporter of the Iranian dictatorship's nuclear
delusions. These are delusions that, if they came to fruition, would represent
the gravest danger confronting humanity. It will be Hitler with a nuclear bomb.
And still, foolish leftists
lend him their support. At what point did they lose all sense of proportion? How
can they reconcile undigested readings of Marx with the most fundamentalist
version of the Quran? How do they marry the postmodern imitators of Che Guevara with the bearded, tie-less types
defending the most tyrannical form of Islam? How do you raise the banner of
liberty while supporting one of the fiercest dictatorships on earth? Probably, as
usually occurs, it isn’t in vain that they all consider figures like Stalin to
be heroes.
But even accepting the
ideological perversion that unites Islamists and Bolivarians, it's difficult
to imagine the cosmopolitan society of Caracas applauding a guy who condemns
women to death by stoning. Beyond the periodic distress that nations are prone
to suffer, nothing in the Venezuela's history renders the recent madness
understandable. And, if we delve deeper into the nation's memory, how perverse
it is to stain the name of an illustrious and brilliant Freemason like Simon Bolívar with a delirious and violent demagogue likeChávez! Were Bolívar to raise his head and see
Ahmadinejad and Chávez in his noble land, he would die a second time of pure
shame.
