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The Left comes up with a new slur....

Just had a look at Progress Online and I note they are describing Islamists as of the 'extreme right'. Hello?

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Anonymous Anonymous said... 8:44 pm

Wasn't it the US Neocons who first started talking about "Islamic fascists" (or some such phrase)?  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 12:32 am

I'd like to see proof of that.  



Blogger Croydonian said... 12:26 pm

Did some digging around, and the earliest use of 'Islamofacist' seems to be this:

"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."

This ran in The Independent back in 1990. Anyway, more here.  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 3:41 pm

Very interesting,Croydonian. Thanks.  



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