Mr. Skeptic wrote:Those similarities are important.
The similarities are because they're networks of ideas held by large groups of people, and consequently there are positions taken which can be mapped to scales. So for example, we can make on a scale of authoritarianism to individualism, but that only really offers us 3 possibilities - authoritarian, individualist, something in between. Finding a few such positions which are similar between 2 different networks of ideas doesn't mean they are substantively the same or linked with one another, it means they have a few similarities.
Mr. Skeptic wrote:It's (functionally) Nazism and thus should be treated as such.
1) It's not 'functionally Nazism' at all - you've tried to argue that but haven't managed to even with a wide open platform.
2) Nazism in Western societies is like saying 'pedophilia' - there's nowhere lower to go, so it's about as negative a charge as you can make.
3) Nazis don't exhibit a range of characteristics like Muslims do - you don't find tolerant Nazis because Nazism is intolerant, whereas you factually do find tolerant Muslims who genuinely believe their tolerance arises from their Islamic belief.
I fear you are massively over-simplifying this, and that cannot produce a good outcome.
Mr. Skeptic wrote:I listed a bunch of similarities.
Yes, that's what I said you did - but even your list of alleged similarities was suspect to be honest.
I can list a bunch of similarities between humans and clouds, between Chelsea football supporters and ewoks, and between Capitalists and naked mole rats... that doesn't mean they're the same thing; it means there are some similarities.
Mr. Skeptic wrote: What are the differences between Islam and Nazism that I'm simply avoiding, other than the fact that it's a religion (which is a moot point anyway; nazism is based on fascism, which has religious under and overtones, not mention that you have to take it on faith that whites are superior to other races.
If there was a real expectation to list all the ways in which Islam and Nazism differ, it would take volumes of writing - whereas you've listed a handful of superficial ways, and most of those are suspect already. But to name a few: Islam is quite fundamentally about submission to God - Nazism isn't about submission to anything. Islam contains instructions on proper and forbidden ways to live your life in alignment with God's supposed wishes, even down to performing ablutions - Nazism has nothing to say on this at all. Islam contains numerous detailed rituals and ceremonies because it's a religion, whereas Nazism - being political - has no interest or content about this.
Even if I had the interest in listing every way in which they differ, I seriously doubt I could find the time to be exhaustive.
Mr. Skeptic wrote:That makes it at least a political religion; a political ideology that is based on faith and political mysticism, the belief that certain, often sacred, political actions and stances, should work as always, even if they never do. It's basically the Golden Hammer fallacy and wishful thinking.)
ALL organised religions are political; they always have been, it's one of the defining features of an organised religion.