Republicans target 'Islamic fascism'

yahoo! ^ | Aug 30, 2006 | TOM RAUM

[Nachum]

Fascism is too genteel of a word. Nazi suits them better.

[b4its2late]

If they ever wrote articles on what the democrat talking points are and how many of them use "the word of the day", it would fill that ragsheet NY Times.

[Puppage]

Fascism is too genteel of a word. Nazi suits them better.

I trust you speak of the MSM?

[Matchett-PI]

If you go back through Bush's comments a year or more ago, you will see that he specifically said that they had made a mistake by calling this a "war on TERROR" because in reality it is more a war against fanatics whose religious beliefs impel them to kill themselves and others who don't believe the way they do-- or words to that effect.

In other words, a war against Islamofascists.

[minus_273]

sand nazi

[Nachum]

The MSM? They would fall under the title: "Useful Idiots".

[Maceman]

Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzz word for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.

As buzz words go, I much prefer it to "gravitas."

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I think they're finally using the correct term, but can't help but observe that they probably took their cue from talk radio and the conservative "blogs."

[HitmanLV]

President Bush in recent days has recast the global war on terror into a "war against Islamic fascism." Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzz word for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.

He hasn't used it since that rare lucid flash a couple of weeks ago. Just a few days after Dubya called the terrorists 'Islamic Fascists,' he referred to the same bad guys as 'an extremist....group of folks.'

Damn inspiring.

[Vision]

The enemy within, Tom Raum.

While "fascism" once referred to the rigid nationalistic one-party dictatorship first instituted in Italy, it has "been used very loosely in all kinds of ways for a long time," said Wayne Fields, a specialist in presidential rhetoric at Washington University in St. Louis.

"Typically, the Bush administration finds its vocabulary someplace in the middle ground of popular culture. It seems to me that they're trying to find something that resonates, without any effort to really define what they mean," Fields said.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998

[GatorGirl]

Good. Way more accurate than "terror".

I've actually heard liberals say "McVeigh was a terrorist" when confronted with the term "War on Terror".

[Indomitable_Briton]

And we have to use this term to effect in the media. The liberal extremists have long made it difficult to debate issues surrounding muslim assimilation and multi-culturalism.
We need to use this type of description to wake people to the danger.

[steve-b]

The correct term is "Islamic Fundamentalism" -- the problem is with believers who fail to adopt a civilized modernistic interpretation.

[Victoria Delsoul]

he referred to the same bad guys as 'an extremist....group of folks.'

Damn inspiring.

I'm still laughing... so funny.

[HitmanLV]

His pause where he had to collect his thoughts was particularly stirring. :-)

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL!

[HitmanLV]

I got misty eyed!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Did ya? Hmmm, yeah right.

[LC HOGHEAD]

All we have to do is compromise with the Muslims. After all they are peace-loving just like us. All we have to do is give in on a few points and we would have peace. NO BIG DEAL !
First, since muslims believe homosexuality is a crime, all we have to do is agree with them and make homosexuality a crime, punishable by death. NO BIG DEAL,right? Secondly, muslims believe and insist that women are third class citizens, who should be subjugated and treated as chattel. So we just do as they say, don't let women vote anymore, don't let them go to school, kill them if they are not virgins before marriage, promote female clitoral castration to reduce the sex drive, and deny them divorce and property rights. Its what Allah commands. NO BIG DEAL, RIGHT?. Thirdly, let them annihilate the jews. Its only a tiny country anyways, and then we would have peace. ITS NO BIG DEAL, Right????? So all you Jews, Gays and Females, think about it. Its your reward, and its NO BIG DEAL !!!!!