Sunday, November 4th, 2007...2:56 pm
“Islamo-Fascism”
Those paying attention to USA politics have probably noticed that the term “Islamo-fascism” has increasingly crept into the lexicon of the candidates for the republican presidential nomination and their pundit promoters.
The term, I suppose, emerged from one of the so-called “institutes” or “think tanks”, which really act primarily as progenitors of “talking points” propaganda tendered by the political hacks parked within the institutions under such mellifluous job titles as “visiting scholar”.
The term, as with all terms of propaganda, through its repetition is permeating the USA consciousness; and will probably soon be taken by a majority as a matter of fate. That is, that there indeed exists an Islamo-Fascist movement.
Soon polls will indicate that 50% of the USA population supports a war on Islamo- fascism, whatever that might be. “Don’t bother me with details. CBS, FOX, and the others have alerted me to the Islamo-fascist threat, so let’s turn the ragheads to glass”, soon will consider the uninformed, disinterested half of the USA population.
Juan Cole, an instructor of “Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan” and the most credible voice I’ve found with respect to all things Middle Eastern, regularly expresses his understanding of events at his excellent blog Informed Comment.
Those interested in the subject of so-called Islamo-fascism should read Cole’s take in “Combating Muslim Extremism” , appearing at the online version of The Nation.
Kicking Calvin in Playa Baracoa.
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