Prof: Don’t Call It ‘Islamofascism’
Monday, August 14th, 2006“Islamic fascism” or “Islamofascism” is a term that should be dropped from our political lexicon.
Since the 9/11 attacks President Bush has walked a politically correct tight-rope in referring to the enemies of this country operating from an Islamic geographical and ideological context. The President, and his administration, have always been careful to describe the struggle, from our end, as a war “on terror.” (In fact, the official rubric was, and remains, the “Global War on Terror,” or GWOT.) Perhaps burned by his one rhetorical sin–declaring a “crusade” to get those responsible for killing 3,000 Americans and catching hell for using that term–Bush has been bending over backwards to mollify his critics and avoid even the perceived hint of impropriety toward Muslims and Islam.
