Harry Rose

I have signed up because a primary responsibility of anyone who regards themselves as a liberal or a socialist is, when confronted by fascism, to identify it for what it is and to oppose it.

The threat to liberalism posed by the international forces of jihad is fundamentally fascist in its aims and its theology. This is obvious to anyone who is paying proper attention.

Al Qaeda epitomise the politics of reaction. You will not find a better example of a world-view based of totalitarianism, inequality, misogyny, and puritanism. In short, the antithesis of liberalism and socialism.

In response, those who get this must assert the values of the enlightenment - liberty, equality, secularism, humanism - with renewed confidence.

Such values must also be intellectually pummelled into the complacent minds of those more concerned with moronic anti-Americanism, school-playground pacifism and outright fascist sympathising.