Wishful thinking is one thing, intellectual dishonesty is quite another.
Many more or less gross attempts by Arab Muslim circles have been made
to hijack Evola's work, but
http://forum.europeans.ws/europeans/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=137 is
going too far, and, to our knowledge, is unprecedented.
First, we are told that "In The Manifesto of Verona, Evola expressed
his "absolute respect for those peoples of the Muslim countries, like
Egypt, which are civil and rationally organized." (Claudio Mutti,
"Evola e Nasser," www.centrostudilaruna.it/evolaenasser.html)."
The 'Manifesto of Verona' was the founding text of the Republic of
Salň (1943), of which J. Evola, who, in his 'Diario (1943-1944),
expressed disagreement with the socialist turn taken by Fascism in
these years, was not a signer, to start with.
Then, that, In "The emancipation of Islam is one road towards
socialism" (Meridiano d'Italia, March 3, 1957; cited in I testi del
Meridiano d'Italia, Padua: Edizioni di Ar, 2002, pp. 217-219), Evola
praised the Islamic resistance to Zionism and imperialism. He extolled
the virtues of Nasser's Egypt, including expelling the British from
the Suez Canal, nationalization of foreign companies, providing asylum
to European refugees from the Third Reich, Vichy France, and others
who fought for the nationalist cause.
While Evola viewed the Nasserite cause as "a true and just pan-Arab
socialism based on the spiritual foundations of Islam," he bridged the
ideological gap between Nasser and the Islamic movements, and examined
the values they shared and the directions both sought to move the Arab
world were closer than differences."
When we first read 'L'emancipazione dell'Islam č una strada verso il
communismo' in 2003, nothing of this could be found in it. We have
just read it again. It is still not there. The words 'Zionism', 'Third
Reich', 'Vichy', are not even mentioned in the text. Evola's actual
views on Nasser are the opposite of those which are ascribed falsely
to him : "With Kemal's Turkey, Nasser's Egypt is, among these
countries, the one which follows most the modern Western ideal of the
secular State, which is in stark contradiction with the Muslim tradition."
Finally, Evola supposedly "praised "orthodox Islam", which was "still
defended from Saudi Arabia and the organization of the Muslim
Brotherhood."
Evola did not praise anything at all here. He merely noted that
'L'Islam ortodosso č ancora difeso dall'Arabia Saudita e
dall'organizzazione dei "Fratelli musulmani", organizzazione che perň
in Egitto č stata proibita per la sua dichiarata avversione al nuovo
regime e che d'altronde nel suo programma attuale ha incluso idee
sociali riformiste e radicali assai spinte, per cui in Syria si deve
ad essa la formazione di un "Fronte islamico socialista."
http://msecchi.wordpress.com/2007/10/