Is Bush really trying to fight the Crusades all over again? His rhetoric certainly says so. “Islamofascism” — can you think of a worse insult to Islam, conjoining the religion of Islam with the slur of Fascism? Because there may be about 10,000 terrorists of the Muslim persuasion in the entire world, he now feels entitled to slur an entire religion of over a billion adherents?
“They hate our freedoms?” What is that supposed to mean — when Osama said again and again, he hated American troops being in Saudi-Arabia right by Islam’s holiest site of Mecca, with the desecration of unveiled American female troops in the vicinity? That’s not hating our freedoms. That’s hating something much more specific. That’s why they did 9/11 – because of our troops in Saudi-Arabia. That’s what they said.
These days, this “they” have made it clear they don’t like our troops being in Iraq, or Israel giving the Palestinians a hard time. If you were a Muslim, would you like foreign troops occupying a Muslim country? Would you like Muslim troops taking over Texas, even if they wanted to do some good, like stopping the Texans from executing black people via capital punishment, a punishment the entire civilized world has given up long ago?
“They hate our freedoms.” What freedoms? Seems to me it’s the Christofascists like Bush who hate our freedoms.
1. They hate the freedom of women to have sex and use abortion to prevent a pregnancy. This is a legally-won freedom they want to roll back. They’ve even used terrorism to fight this freedom –- bombing clinics and killing doctors.
2. They hate our Constitution. Bush has tried to override it.
3. They hate our laws. Bush has used 750 signing statements to say the laws he signed can be ignored by him. He hates the freedom of Congress to make laws he has to observe.
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Dave Nalle
An interesting argument, except that as far as I can tell the term "islamofascist" which may be popular on talk radio, is not one which Bush has ever actually used. Though I await your link (the article being sadly lacking in such) to prove me wrong.
He certainly didn't use it in his speech yesterday or his press conference last week. In fact, in yesterday's lengthy speech he never even referred to 'islam', just to terrorists without regard to their religion.
Methinks your crusader fantasies are a bit farfetched.
Dave
2 - brad schader
August 7, 2006
"And it takes a lot of work. This is the beginning of a long struggle against an ideology that is real and profound. It's Islamo-fascism. It comes in different forms. They share the same tactics, which is to destroy people and things in order to create chaos in the hopes that their vision of the world become predominant in the Middle East." - George W. Bush
3 - Janet Cohen
The term isn't Christ-o-fascist, it's
Christianist. Andrew Sullivan has been writing extensively about this.
4 - ANB
It is infinitely shameful that Yahoo News RSS feed features such an astonishingly narrow-minded piece of radical leftist demagoguery. This 'article' errs on so many fundamental points that it will take about an hour to go step-by-step, debunking the absurdities stated therein. A poorly written rant, that's all it is. Shameful.
5 - Michael J. West
Christofascist:Islamofascist::Christianist:Islamist.
6 - Michael J. West
ANB, you lose credibility when you call it poorly written. Actually, whether you agree with it or not, it's quite well written. You come off as just having sour grapes, which puts a stain on the rest of your response.
7 - Martin Lav
Nalle,
Bush used the term at least twice recently and I believe it's a bit of his parties "strategery" with word games. Their so many Islamists/terrorist-sympathizers that protested, that he stopped using the term. This has been written about extensively. Although Mr. Ash goes on with his rant and own word games, his argument is basically accurate. Mr. Bush and his handlers should know that inflamatory remarks such as this, would not go unnoticed or uncriticized. It's part of the tug of war with the press and sound bite news. The "strategory" of the use of this word, traced I'm sure to Karl Rove, continues to keep the public focused on the war on terror and Islamic radicals. Radicals however, are hard to hate, especially if you are one, as in the case of this administration. Fascists are easy to sink your hate into on the other hand and in the war of words, this administration excels even while it fails everywhere else.
8 - Joe Doe
Read this article
"They Are Fascists" by Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed the general manager of Al -Arabiya. Seems some muslims believe the term is entirely accurate.
and BTW Bush is wrong. It's not islamofascism, it's islamonazism. Dink
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Joe Doe V2.0
9 - Dave Nalle
I didn't realize he'd used the term so recently. Thanks for the link. My only objection to the term is that it's technically incorrect. I've got no problem with him calling islamic terrorists by any nasty name he can come up with on principle. Calling them names is the least of what he should be doing to them.
As for the term Christofascist, I prefer Theocon since the left insists on misusing Neocon for its own purposes so relentlessly.
Dave
10 - Arch Conservative
Wow.........more recycled bullshit from the left.
At least no one believes your propaganda but other moonbats Adam.
You keep regugitating it though as the Dems fail to take control of Congress this year or the white house in 2008.
11 - Martin Lav
Yeah Dave, I specifically recall Dubya using this term during his press conference when he updated the nation on the foiled terrorist plot out of London to bomb airliners bound for the US. You remember.....the same press conference where he reminded the American people that this war is still going on and the need to continue to use and excercise the tools granted him by Alberto R. Gonzales?
12 - Baronius
Michael, ANB is right. This is a poorly-written article. Adam can write a good piece, but this isn't one.
The article is unfocused. It picks up and drops terms without defining them. Adam presents his opinions as facts. When he does state specifics, they are often wrong. His numbering system fails to provide structure. The article fails to construct any argument more advanced than "I'm rubber and you're glue". It reads like a rant.
13 - Dave Nalle
Baronius, it's also awfully similar to one of his other recent articles, though that one is better written and even more crazy.
BTW, there's a pretty good defense of the term Islamofascist in this article. Of course most of the hard-lefters will reject it because it's written by a Jew, but it's still a good analysis.
Dave
14 - Sanjay
Adam needs to read about Godwin's Law. Then he can be aware of his own wasteful hyperbole.
15 - Sanjay
"worse insult to Islam"??
How about making an ass out of yourself by rioting over cartoons, or issuing death warrants against Rushdie?
How about the fact that Islamic regimes have killed far more Muslims than the infidels ever did, which Islamists conveniently ignore? Talk about making a mockery of yourself.
It's the Red-Green Show. Leftists and Islamists desperately embracing each other like doomed lovers. Losers of a feather flock together.
16 - Dave Nalle
I love that last image, Sanjay.
Dave
17 - AnArch
Nice to see conservatives agreeing with each other, since no one else does(#15,#16)
18 - Bliffle
Facism is an extreme form of Corporate-Statism, so it would appear to be closer to contemporary christianity than to islam. Christianity seems to have embraced corporatism, tho it's difficult to contrive the ecclesiastical basis, while islam is notably anti-corporate.
19 - Nancy
Nattering about this is like arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The point being made is that, whatever the correct terminology, such deluded persons of whatever persuasion all line up in mindless, unquestioning, unintelligent lockstep in obedience to those persons who have assumed power over them. Facists? Nazis? What other options for terminology are out there?
The use of "Islamofacists" by Bush is just a continuation of the BushCo longstanding policy of using whatever terminology will elicit a knee-jerk reaction on the part of Americans (& hopefully, our overseas allies) in order to marshal support for BushCo's increasingly suspect & failing policies & administration. I'd be willing to bet that if Bush or Rove thought the word "boy scouts" would ring an alarm bell, Dubya would be out there today claiming these parties were "Islamoboyscouts".
20 - Adam Ash
Right on, Nancy -- and great point, Bliffle.
21 - Martin Lav
Word games.....there are no winners....
22 - JR
Dave Nalle: Of course most of the hard-lefters will reject it because it's written by a Jew, but it's still a good analysis.
Under that assumption, most of the "hard-lefters" must also reject socialism. There seems to be no internal logic to your aspersions.
23 - SHARK
American Right-Wing Christoids...
Islmofacists...
Don't be confused, kids: IT DON'T MATTER.
~They're different sides of the same coin, both of which say "In God We Trust" in different languages.
~~And airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers was the ultimate Faith-based act.
Thanks, George!
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Nalle criticizing AdamAsh:
"...it's also awfully similar to one of his other recent articles, though that one is better written and even more crazy."
and
"..Methinks your crusader fantasies are a bit farfetched."
This from a guy who just posted an "Apocalyptic [WET] Dream" he had last night wherein he and a bunch of his "military trained" buddies experience a "cinematic" violent terrorist revolution against a U.S "elite, liberal, east coast elected government."
crazy?
crusader fantasies?
Dave, no shit: if you had ONE IOTA OF SELF-AWARENESS, you'd either stop posting on here or you'd kill yerself with a rusty melon-baller attached to a power drill.
But please don't: I need the laughs.
xxoo
S
24 - PHAT
Bush is the worst president america has ever had the zionist leader is a liar there r pictures of him holding babies but he loves to kill children in lebanon and palestine hezbollah r not terrist as they r made of lebanese people defending their country bush could never relise that. that's why hezbollah won the war
25 - Dave Nalle
Shark, I don't own a melon baller. Should I get one?
And again, it would be nice if you bothered to read my articles before commenting on them, but I guess that's a bit much to hope for.
BTW, close your bold command next time.
Oh, and aren't you glad that PHAT is on your side?
Dave