Experts, pundits debate use of 'Islamic fascism' | csmonitor.com

Experts, pundits debate use of 'Islamic fascism' | csmonitor.com: "Experts, pundits debate use of 'Islamo-fascist'
Some call the term appropriate, others say it is misleading and historically inaccurate.
By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

In what The Associated Press calls, 'the new buzzword for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq,' President Bush, members of his cabinet, and conservative columnists and bloggers have recast the global 'war on terror' into a war against 'Islamic fascism.' The phrase has become hotly debated among experts and in the blogosphere, with some writers calling it a correct description of the enemy that the US is facing, while other say it is 'emotional' and 'misleading.'

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Tuesday that Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who is in an extremely tough reelection race, called Iran 'the greatest threat we will ever face,' and said that 'Iran and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are the driving forces behind a movement bent on destroying the United States.' After the president used the term over the weekend, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Tuesday told a veteran's group in Salt Lake City that the US was facing 'a new kind of fascism.'"