[McGavin999]

Frankly, I don't see the difference. The same tactics are used, the same outcome is achieved. You are picking nits to prove a point that is meaningless.

They are functioning in the same manner for the same goals and they DO work together as we have seen in Iraq. There is danger in pretending there is a difference.

[muawiyah]

Fascism, Islamofascism, Nazism, Stalinism ~ etc. ~ are ideologically based methods of implementating totalitarian forms of government.

Fanaticism is a description of the level of zealotry found in followers/members of any group, not just Fascism and its clones.

Actually, Hannah Arendt documented one of the truths of Fascism ~ it was not only evil, it was banal in its evil. She's the person who came up with the term "the banality of evil".

The term "fanaticism" implies something far different.

I am not sure what the point is in claiming that there is no difference between Shia and Sunni ~ that would be like claiming there is no difference between the Roman Catholic church and the Apostolic Charismatic Free Will Seventh Day Baptist church on the corner.