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Steve Bannon (Literally) Calls for War Against Islam

The danger that Steve Bannon represents is all to often made vague and abstract by reference to the alt-right “news” outlet Breitbart. In fact, this man who will be a member of the National Security Council believes that the Judeo-Christian West is and should be at war with Islam.

Word for word, these are remarks Steve Bannon made at a conference of Catholics meeting in the Vatican in 2014.

“If you look back at the long history of the Judeo-Christian West struggle against Islam, I believe that our forefathers kept their stance, and I think they did the right thing. I think they kept it out of the world, whether it was at Vienna, or Tours, or other places… It bequeathed to use the great institution that is the church of the West….”

“I believe you should take a very, very, very aggressive stance against radical Islam. And I realize there are other aspects that are not as militant and not as aggressive and that’s fine….

“[W]e’re now, I believe, at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism….

“And we’re at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict, of which if the people in this room, the people in the church, do not bind together and really form what I feel is an aspect of the church militant, to really be able to not just stand with our beliefs, but to fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity that’s starting, that will completely eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years….


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I didn’t set out to be a terrorist. As a student activist, I moved from protesting the war in Viet Nam to waging guerrilla war to overthrow the government….

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