1-0 in the propaganda war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1405605,00.html
How the right played the fascism card against Islam
Albert Scardino
Friday February 4, 2005
The Guardian
Fascism is coming back into fashion, at least in the propaganda wars.
For the right, it comes in the shape of a new word: "islamofascism".
That conflates all the elements into one image: suicide bombs,
kidnappings and the Qur'an; the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan;
Iranian clerics and Hitler.
The term seems to have appeared first in the Washington Times in a
reference to Islamist fundamentalists. Coined by Khalid Duran, a Muslim
scholar seeking to explain Islam to Jews, the word was meant as a
criticism of hyper-traditionalist clerics - who in turn denounced Duran
as a traitor to the faith.
Islamophobia
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Albert Scardino
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