Muslims Standup

Why they call it 'Islamofascism'
Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, October 26, 2007

At least since the days of Oswald Mosley and the Spanish Civil War, "fascist" has been the preferred slur of campus revolutionaries and other leftists of limited vocabulary. But something curious has happened in the last few years.

Among conservatives, "Islamofascist" has become the standard label for those who butcher in the name of Allah. Practically unknown prior to the Sept. 11 attacks, the term was first embraced in the nether regions of the blogosphere before it seeped into the mainstream. President George W. Bush used it only once, in 2006, but Rudy Giuliani, the Republican with the best shot at succeeding Bush, has made it a crowd-pleasing fixture of his stump speech.

There is even an "Islamofascism Awareness Week." On now, this creation of neo-conservative David Horowitz will have Ann Coulter and other right-wing luminaries attend consciousness-raising sessions -- as the new left called them when the new left was new -- at universities across the United States........