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Word Choice - Are we at war with “Islamic Fascism”?
National Review Online ^ | August 17, 2006 | An NRO Symposium

Posted on 08/17/2006 3:15:07 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 08/17/2006 3:15:09 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Shhhh! Don't tell anybody, "Islamic Fascist" is redundant.
2 posted on 08/17/2006 3:18:36 PM PDT by Uriah_lost (Cable News new slogan: Now running only one week behind the blogs!)
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To: neverdem
“Islamic Fascism” is redundant.
3 posted on 08/17/2006 3:19:48 PM PDT by Jeremiah Jr (Alef Male)
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To: neverdem

Islamic fascists is fine, but I prefer Hugh Hewitt's "Islamo-Nazis." I have no great reasoning behind this, I just like the way it sounds.


4 posted on 08/17/2006 3:22:47 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Free Iran! WARNING! Forbidden Cartoon: .. . *-O(( :-{>. . . .)
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To: neverdem

Nope, we are at war with muslims, period.


5 posted on 08/17/2006 3:24:39 PM PDT by calex59 (Hillary Clinton is dumber than a one eyed monkey with a brain tumor(credit to Harley69))
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To: neverdem

anything is better than "jihadists" which makes them Soldiers of God" which is an honorable title.


6 posted on 08/17/2006 3:25:24 PM PDT by TWfromTEXAS
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To: neverdem

Any good fascist would recoil in horror at being compared to an islamic!

It's just that "islamic fascist" sounds ever so much more PC than simply calling them what they are:
islamic.


7 posted on 08/17/2006 3:26:06 PM PDT by Redbob
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To: neverdem
Are we at war with “Islamic Fascism”?

Let's cut the crap. We are at war with Islam.

Back to the Bush statement - if you are not with us, you are a'gin us.

Moslems are not showing a great deal of being with the West. Period.

8 posted on 08/17/2006 3:52:26 PM PDT by llevrok (When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
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To: Uriah_lost
That's one of the reasons we should use the term "Islamo-fascism" so that it's clear that it's simply the Islamic brand of fascism ~ not fascism in general.

"Islamic Fascism" is, of course, a tuatological expression.

9 posted on 08/17/2006 4:00:13 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: neverdem

We're damn sure Not at war with the Girl Scouts.


10 posted on 08/17/2006 4:00:59 PM PDT by puppypusher
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To: neverdem

"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


11 posted on 08/17/2006 4:01:09 PM PDT by Vision (God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Hewitt might have been using the term "Islamofascism" in recent times, but I've posted the expression right here in FR as far back as 1997.


12 posted on 08/17/2006 4:01:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: calex59

Is that "all" or "some"? I am uncomfortable with any statement that says we are targeting women and children, which is what "all" does.


13 posted on 08/17/2006 4:02:09 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Redbob

The Nazis organized Moslems into active SS units in WWII. Other Freepers have posted standard, stock photos demonstrating it.


14 posted on 08/17/2006 4:03:16 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Vision

That statement, BTW, is justification for locking this guy up for insurrection against the United States. They are going to have to change some of their fundamental beliefs or we will have to expel them all.


15 posted on 08/17/2006 4:04:27 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: llevrok
Let's cut the crap. We are at war with Islam.

No we are not, actually.

Islamism is what we are at war with, and Islamists would LOVE for us to be foolish enough to make enemies of a billion people.

16 posted on 08/17/2006 4:05:19 PM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: neverdem
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17 posted on 08/17/2006 4:25:05 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Wormwood

You can't win a war if you can't name your Enemy!

The West has been casting about to find the right name
to call the Enemy we face in the War On Terror.

I nominate "Muslim Crusaders"

It's concise, rolls off the tongue easily, and as a
bonus, it rubs a thumb in the eye of their mercinary
apoligists like CAIR, and their friends the
perpetually offended.

Christianity went thru The Reformation after the
Crusades, Islam should be obliged to do the same after
the West ends the Muslim Crusades!

James Arlandson writes a great piece on the Muslim
Crusades that lead, after 465 years, to Pope Urban II
preaching the First Crusade in 1095 AD.

Included is a Timeline of the Muslim Crusades.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5024

Calling the Enemy "Muslim Crusaders" will also soften the Left's resolve vis a vis their insistance on rooting for the wrong side...nothing get's a Lib's panties in a bunch like a good old fashoned Crusade!

The constant naming of the Enemy as Crusaders will also help drive the point home to the Mythic "Muslim Moderate Majority"...

A constant reminder that the WOT IS their fight, it IS up to them to purge the Crusaders from their ranks, and to Reform their faith so it can peacefully join the 21st Century, where the rising tide raises all boats.

An invitation, if you will, to join the Human Family.


18 posted on 08/17/2006 4:26:32 PM PDT by M_Man
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To: SaxxonWoods
Hugh Hewitt's "Islamo-Nazis.

Isn't that Medved's term? Medved uses it constantly.

19 posted on 08/17/2006 4:29:45 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Why does our government "of the people" do things the people don't want--overtax & overregulate us?)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Hugh uses it too, maybe he swiped it from Michael.


20 posted on 08/17/2006 4:34:17 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Free Iran! WARNING! Forbidden Cartoon: .. . *-O(( :-{>. . . .)
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