I'd like to share this excellent article from The Telegraph today. I think you'll enjoy it.
The anti-war-on-terror lobby has had a bad week. Not that it hasn't kept its end up. Oh no. Faced with a threat so devastating that it seemed more like a world-domination plot from a Superman comic than a hard-headed act of war, there was nothing for it but to fall back on semantics.Mark Alexander
George W. Bush was pilloried for referring to "Islamic fascists" by, among others, the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu. Using that kind of language "on the ranch in Texas" did not help, he said, to make society "a good, neighbourly place".
I don't know what the ranch in Texas has to do with anything, but Dr Sentamu seems not to understand the difference between describing Islamic fundamentalists as fascistic, and saying that all Muslims are fascists. Read it all here: 'Fascistic' is the right word for Islamic fundamentalism by Janet Daley
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Daniel Pipes has a few words to say on this subject.
Eleanor:
Islam, by its very nature, is prone to being totalitarian and fascistic. The fact there is no separation of the spiritual and temporal in Islam makes this tendency even stronger.
To use Bush's name in the same breath as Hitler's is absurd. They know that as well as we do. They say this in order to up the anti.
Yes, as you say, it's alright to call Jews and Christians "apes and pigs", but it is not alright for us to call a spade a spade. Muslims, to put it mildly, operate on double standards.
BTW, thanks for that great link.
Mark,
What an excellent article! I'm so glad that you've directed us to it.
The word "fascism" means an extreme totalitarian system that suppresses human rights and democratic freedoms.
Islamic fundamentalism is fascistic in the precise, technical sense of the word.
And why do the various Muslim groups so strongly object to the terminology "Islamic fascism"? Because that's what Islam itself is! The West's attempt to separate radical Islam from Islam itself is downright stupid. Also, Muslims themselves make no such distinction.
My most recent posting is about CAIR's objections to GWB's terminology. How I despise CAIR! And to top it all off, the FBI and CAIR recently held a joint news-conference. ARRGGGHHHH! The dhimmitude of the West knows no bounds!
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