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To: unionblue83
(8) The use of Islamic fascists should be seen as part of a decades-long search for the right term to name a form of Islam that is recognizably political, extreme, and often violent. I have already confessed in that I am on my fifth term (having previously used neo-orthodox, fundamentalist, and militant, and now using radical and Islamist). While Islamic fascists beats terrorists, let’s hope that a better consensus term soon emerges. My vote is for Islamists.

I have been going back and forth between Islamofacist and Islamist myself. I believe I agree with Mr. Pipes. I'll use Islamist. An Islamist is a practitioner of Islamism.

9 posted on 08/14/2006 4:40:29 AM PDT by PogySailor
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To: PogySailor; Valin

Very good link!

"Distinguishing between Islam and Islamism
June 30, 1998"
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/954

Thanks!


14 posted on 08/14/2006 5:10:42 AM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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