What is an "Islamofascist"?

Question

I've heard this word tossed around by the right-wing quite frequently... I hate the Islamic Fundamentalists, but considering their belief system, then considering the Fascist belief system, where do these belief systems coincide?

According to both definitions, they don't coincide in many places. So why does the right-wing refer to Islamic Fundamentalists as "Islamofascists"?

Is it because they generally don't understand what a Fascist is?

Is it because they want to distract people from thinking about addressing Fascism here at home in the United States?

Or is there some other aspect, such as an overt business relationship between the clerics of Islam and other terrorist leaders, that isn't widely talked about?

Actually, I know exactly what fascism is. Do you?

I could try explaining it here, but I'd rather use a root source. I suggest Benito Mussolini as a source:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html

And I didn't say the United States was a fascist country... I said that there was fascism here, in the form of fascists in operation here. We, as a society and as a governmental system are not fascist. But there are most definitely fascists, in the Mussolini definition of the term, here in the United States. There's no denying that, though you may do so at your own peril (and perhaps at the peril of the rest of us as well).

By the way, I am giving thumbs up to conservatives who actually try to answer the question seriously. And they will be considered (and likely will win) best answer.

I never claimed to be non-biased, either, which my name should express. :) I was honestly curious about the way that other side of the isle defined the term.

Answer 1

An Islamofascist wants a country governed by a Muslim theocracy, where Sharia law is paramount to Constitutional law.

Since fascism is generally about 'state control', the coined term is state control via Islam and Islamic law of thought, media, and the general public. Such a theocracy exists today in Iran, complete with suppressed opposition media.

Answer 2

The Muslim clerics who tyranically rule the Islamic countries are fascist in every sense of the word. Hence the term Islamofascist.

Let's either prove or disprove this based on the meaning of the term, fascist:

1) A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator. --> Islam rules every facet of life in places like Iran. The clerics have indisputed power over everyone's lives in just about every aspect of their lives. These clerics are the dictators running the country.

2) Stringent socioeconomic controls. --> Consider how the Taliban ruled with an iron fist. You could not run any business they disapproved of. You couldn't listen to music. No dancing. No movies. No liquor.

3) Suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship. --> Nothing could fit the bill better than the Islamafascist terrorists in Iraq. The people of Iraq voted on a Constitution, and voted who to elect as their leaders. However, the Islamafascists refuse to recognize democratic rule.

4) A policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. --> The virulantly xenophobic radical supporters of Islam call everyone who does not share their faith an infidel. Look at the photos in the link below. A little scary, aren't they. Not exactly a bunch of innocent goat herders, eh?

Islamic leaders from these nations stir up the passions of the ignorant populace by inciting them to violence, reminding them that Allah wants them, the superior Arab and Persian people, to dominate the world.

Answer 3

I think you've got a point, with your musings. A lot of people just know "fascist" is a bad thing, or someone who tells someone else what to do. They don't necessarily realize everything that the term connotes. Here's a link someone else on Y!A kindly provided:

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

Thus, someone who wants to create a controlling state which is Islamic would be an Islamofascist.

Answer 4

Islamofascist is what an ignorant person says to bridge the gap that the religion Islam is Fascist. It is a form of psychology to get people to hate a specific religion.

Answer 5

How smart are we? You're reading too much into it. Islamo for "Islamic" and Fascists not so much in the actual term. It is being used in the sense of how oppressive Nazism was against it's own people and others. Fundamentalist is the more accurate term but the other is just easier to say. Stop over-anaylizing.

Answer 6

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Is it because they want to distract people from thinking about addressing Fascism here at home in the United States?
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Bingo. Give the man a cigar. Don't stick it up an intern please.

They know very well what fascism is, so they want to blur the term.

-Dio

Answer 7

What is an Islamofascist?
The connotation is a Democrat.
And also, the denotation is a Democrat.
Democrats are whatever they want to be to get votes.
They have been courting the terrorists for quite some time. And it paid off for them in Nov.

Answer 8

Many different characteristics are attributed to fascism by different scholars, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: nationalism, authoritarianism, militarism, corporatism, statism, collectivism, ANTI-LIBERALISM, and anti-communism.

Mussolini: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

Source: wikipedia

Answer 9

Islamofascists= Nancy Pelosi, Jane Fonda, Hillary Clinton

Anyone who supports the terrorists by defending them, aiding them through not giving support and funding for our troops, and people who call for "peace" without offering any solutions.

Answer 10

It's a composite word. Shorthand for the sort of person it is imagined or is needed to exist to support a poor argument. How did the Knick's get on?