Has President Bush actually defined what an "Islamic-Fascist" actually is? Where did he get the phrase?

Question

What does the expression mean to you?

Answer 1

It's a phrase used decades ago, and being (mis-)used in the current instance because it sounds nasty.

A fascist is someone trying to establish a right-wing authoritarian hierarchical government, one opposed to democracy or liberalism. None of the terrorists so described seem to be very interested in establishing a government, right-wing or otherwise. So the term fascist is not accurate.

The attachment of the prefix "Islamo-" (or "Islamic") just associates Islam with the word Fascist in the minds of the audience, and is a not-so-subtle way of implicating the entire religion with deniability.

Amusingly, even Bush acknowledged that "this radical ideology is very different from the religion of Islam" (November 2005).

Answer 2

I think Bush used the term "Islamo-fascism", which is simiilar, although Wikipedia has, for the moment at least, given it a separate definition.

Salafism -- Wahhabism, Deobandism, the Muslim Brotherhood and the teachings of Sayyid Qutb and all the rest related to it -- hold more or less, and in common with Khomeini's teachings -- that democracy is only valid insofar as it arrives at the proper solution: election of an Islamist slate to power.

The intolerance and totalitarian nature of these teachings lead us in the west to see Political Islam as both Islamic and fascist, although technically that's probably an oxymoron. Suffice to say, Bush's listeners know what he is talking about.

More accurate adumbrations of what Islamists (Salafists and their Shia counterparts like Hezbollah) want can be found in the works of Bernard Lewis (Princeton) and Gilles Kepel (Paris).

Answer 3

George W Bush is too stupid to innovate or even to understand
such expressions.he showed his stupidity in countless number of situations.I think he is repeating what ramsfield,condaliza Instructs him before every single time he talks in pubic.
the people behind Bush are using him in their cultural and propaganda campaign against Islam those racist maniacs
Like chiny and Condaliza rice have deep hatred towards Islam
and dream of the day they can wipe Islam out of the earth
they are the real FASCISTS the are the ones who kill Muslims
in Iraq and Afghanistan BECAUSE they are Muslims
Didn't George W Bush say that he is making CRUSADE?
didn't he say that GOD has ORDERED him to fight Iraq and Afghanistan?
aren't George W Bush one of the NeoCons who consider killing
Palestinians and talking their homes the ONLY way that enables
the RETURN of the CHRIST?
there is nothing called Islamic Fascists...even Muslim Extremists
are not. because FASCISM is killing they others for racial reasons and this is applicable of American government but not even
Muslim terrorists.

Answer 4

It is good you seek answers, Grasshopper. The first step to wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

An Islamofascist is a broad term used to refer to anyone of the Salafi sect of Sunni Islam, or what is often derogatorily referred to as Wahabbism, named after Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab, one of its primary proponents in recent years, but which began in the 11th century, taught and spread by Taqi Ad-din Abu Al-'abbas Ahmad Ibn 'abd As-salam Ibn 'abd Allah Ibn Muhammad Ibn Taymiya (try saying that in one breath! Fortunately he is also known as Ibn Taymiya).

The term is also used to refer to anyone who is part of the broader movement in Islam to use violent means to restore the empire of the Caliphate from Spain to India.

The term dates back to an article in 1990 by Malise Ruthven that appeared on September issue of The Independent, "Construing Islam as a language." In it he says:

"Nevertheless there is what might be called a political problem affecting the Muslim world. In contrast to the heirs of some other non-Western traditions, including Hinduism, Shintoism and Buddhism, Islamic societies seem to have found it particularly hard to institutionalise divergences politically: authoritarian government, not to say Islamo-fascism, is the rule rather than the exception from Morocco to Pakistan."

To Coragryph:

They absolutely are striving to establish a government. It may not be "right-wing" as you understand that confusing and muddled -nearly meaningless - word, but they do intend to re-establish the Caliphate and restore the Islamic empire.

And Bush's statement is only amusing because it is wrong. Islam demand, as a basic tenet of the faith, the establishment of an Islam-based government, even using violent means to achieve that.

Answer 5

It is a clear definition of what the terrorist are trying to achieve and who they are:

1. Al Queda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Taliban are terrorist organizations and they believe and practice the religon of Islam.

2. Fascism: To gain power through violence and ruthlessness.
A government under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the democratic idea through terror and censorship,

Sound like the perfect explanation of Terrorist!

Answer 6

It is, in fact, the very correct term for the islamic terrorist that are trying to take over the world.

Answer 7

It means nothing to me actually..its about the same as him calling the iraqis who fight against our invasion being called "insurgents." He got the word from karl rove or some other adviser he sure didnt think of it himself.. he has not proven to me that he can think for himself at all (remember the debates when he had to answer the questions somewhat from his own knowledge)

Answer 8

president bush reffer to the people whome are fascist but they call themselfe moslem where as islam has never any relationship to the fascism

Answer 9

Are the words that this 'dummy' Bush is using too big for you to understand?

Answer 10

He might have found "fundamentalist" not so good because he noticed that he is one himself. When he finds out about "Fascist" he'll have someone think of something else.