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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (4891)	9/4/2006 12:25:04 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224720

On July 20, 2001, our former religion editor, Larry Witham, interviewed the Muslim scholar who is sometimes credited with inventing the term. Daring to question hardline Islam, the German-born Khalid Duran told The Washington Times that Islamism is really "Islamofascism" because it seeks to impose a forceful religious orthodoxy on the state and the citizenry. Use of the term has mushroomed ever since. It's easy to see why. It describes a real phenomenon. But assuming for a moment that all this talk of Islamic fascism is some cynical Republican public-relations ploy, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman must be in on the action. In 2002, he referred to "the Islamic fascism of Osama bin Laden" in an opinion piece on Iran. Also count Robert Wistrich, who holds the Neuberger chair for Modern European History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His evident cynicism led him to pen the essay "The New Islamic Fascism" in the journal Partisan Review in 2001, ostensibly to give the term some academic currency. Even the Brookings Institution's Michael O'Hanlon must be an honorary collaborator; he recently told reporters that while he does not wholly buy into the term's usage, he thinks it "calls attention to the Islamic quality of the movement.