[humint]

Stephen Schwartz is a frequent contributor to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

[george76]

[Borges]

Isn't Islam inherently fascistic?

[bnelson44]

I don't think the President is using the term anymore.

[gcruse]

"Fascism is distinguished from the broader category of extreme right-wing politics by its willingness to defy public civility and openly violate the law."

Heh. This will stir up the Freeper faction who believe that, simply because it had the word socialism in its name, the Nazi party was somehow a party of the left, not the extreme right. Similar logic would have the various people's democratic republics being democracies by the simple act of calling themselves so.

[ichabod1]

Naw. I think Michael Savage must have said it first.

[bnelson44]

Fascism is something that happened in Italy

[Ozone34]

I believe he is also a convert to Islam, which makes his take on things a bit more interesting than that of the average random Western pundit...

[Congressman Billybob]

The concept is correct. The language needs to be simpler -- to be better understood, and for use in headlines, on posters, and in bumper stickers. I suggest MAZIS, which means Muslims who act like Nazis.

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[Blue State Insurgent]

New tag line. Thanks, Steve.

Socialism seems also to be a common thread.

[FormerLib]

Stephen Schwartz, AKA Suleyman Ahman, is a Jihadist scum who should be deported forthwith!

[FreeRep]

IslamoNazi are groups such as Al Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, Hizbollah who's essence is Socialism. They want to controls the many by the few with ethnic cleansing and genocide as common goals.

[sittnick]

While the term gets the point across (like "feminazi"), not all of the elements of fascism are present. In fascism, you typically have technically non-governmental but effectively government subsidiaries in all major industries (e.g. Volkswagen under Hitler). Moreover, fascism as a political system can simply be authoritarian (Peron, Franco) as opposed to totalitarian. Fascism is also intensely nationalistic. These types are not too interested in borders, as they figure it all belongs to their flavor of Islam. They might have an interest in being Arab or Persian, and that might be close enough to satisfy the definition.

It's not the tightest term, but at least it is closer to the truth than the manufactured term "homophobe" (which would technically mean an irrational fear of sameness, often used to refer to those with a rational disgust at perversion). The term has been so misused by leftists over the years (I was called a fascist after helping create an anti-communist student newspaper), it's just as well that the leftists get a taste of their own terminology.

[orionblamblam]

> I admit to a lack of modesty or neutrality about this discussion, since I was, as I will explain, the first Westerner to use the neologism in this context.

Meh. Wiki:

The origins of the term are unclear, but appear to date back to an article, "Construing Islam as a language", by Malise Ruthven that appeared on September 8, 1990 in The Independent, where he wrote:

Nevertheless there is what might be called a political problem affecting the Muslim world. In contrast to the heirs of some other non-Western traditions, including Hinduism, Shintoism and Buddhism, Islamic societies seem to have found it particularly hard to institutionalise divergences politically: authoritarian government, not to say Islamo-fascism, is the rule rather than the exception from Morocco to Pakistan.

[Chili Girl]

Michael Savage coined the word first!

[sauropod]

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