stevo: i vaporized an entire response, damn it...
1. the post on neofascism i put up i was making as i wrote it, so things are not in the best order (mea culpa)---the front national is kind of a template for understanding the rest of them--bt the last link (the bookrag link) is an actual comparative analysis across european neofascist organizations---so go there---i thought that the conclusions would be obvious from there regard mr. fjordman's politics.
i did not mean at all to imply that he was fn....
2. as for the "islamofascist" term, i'll simply quote back to you from dc dux's post on the previous page, which was initially debated in another direction:
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You dont defeat the extremists with policy and rhetoric that turns more moderate muslims to their side. At least Condi Rice recognized that:
In a controversial move within the administration, [Undersecretary of State Karen] Hughes and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seem to have persuaded Bush ? temporarily, at least ? to drop the label ?Islamic fascism? from his speeches; diplomats say that Muslims hear it as an attack on their religion, thereby validating the extremists? false charge that the United States is at war with Islam.
The move is a blow to conservatives, who celebrated last month when President Bush used the term several times in his speeches on terrorism. The phrase is a favorite of right-wing commentators like Bill O?Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity; the AP called it ?the new buzzword? for conservatives ?in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.?
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it is a meaningless far right meme. meaningless in that it refers to nothing in the outside world--the term unifies where there is none--it gives an entirely illusory sense of there being a single Enemy--and uses inflammatory rhetoric to substitute for its emptiness.
like os many other far right memes, it is about selling the fraud that is the "war on terror" and the bush people along with it. so there may be such a war on "islamofascists", but it is in your head.