http://larison.org/2007/10/22/be-aware/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:21:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://larison.org/2007/10/22/be-aware/#comment-7920 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:28:47 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/10/22/be-aware/#comment-7920 There are certainly jihadis, but calling them fascists seems pointless and almost deliberately intended to confuse rather than clarify. Their threat does not merit overreaction, but it also requires intelligent responses, and I don't think the name "Islamofascism" makes any sense at all. I consider the term itself absurd. In a sense, yes, I would say it's redundant, but this is because it describes incorrectly a religious thing in terms of a dead secular ideology. There are certainly jihadis, but calling them fascists seems pointless and almost deliberately intended to confuse rather than clarify. Their threat does not merit overreaction, but it also requires intelligent responses, and I don’t think the name “Islamofascism” makes any sense at all. I consider the term itself absurd. In a sense, yes, I would say it’s redundant, but this is because it describes incorrectly a religious thing in terms of a dead secular ideology.

]]> http://larison.org/2007/10/22/be-aware/#comment-7918 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:51:40 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/10/22/be-aware/#comment-7918 I admit that I do not quite understand your point about the Islamofascists. You might clarify. Do you mean that there are no such people, or that there are but the threat they pose does not merit overreaction, or that the word <em>Islamofascism</em> is redundant because all serious Muslims are Islamofascists? I admit that I do not quite understand your point about the Islamofascists. You might clarify. Do you mean that there are no such people, or that there are but the threat they pose does not merit overreaction, or that the word Islamofascism is redundant because all serious Muslims are Islamofascists?

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