I know this is an old column by Pat Buchanan but considering we are still in a "War on Terror" I thought this is still a good one about the mis-use of the term "fascist" when speaking of Islam:

http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-islamo-fascism-75

“'President Likens Dewey to Hitler as Fascist Tool.'

So ran the New York Times headline on Oct. 26, 1948, after what Dewey biographer Richard Norton Smith called a 'particularly vitriolic attack in Chicago' by Harry Truman.

What brings this to mind is President Bush’s assertion that we are 'at war with Islamic fascism' and 'Islamo-fascism.'"



"Unsurprisingly, it is neoconservatives, whose roots are in the Trotskyist-social Democratic left, who are promoting use of the term. Their goal is to have Bush stuff al-Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran into the same 'Islamo-fascist' kill box, then let Strategic Air Command do the rest.

But the term represents the same lazy, shallow thinking that got us into Iraq, where Americans were persuaded that by dumping over Saddam, we were avenging 9/11.

But Saddam was about as devout a practitioner of Islam as his hero Stalin was of the Russian Orthodox faith. Saddam was into booze, mistresses, movies, monuments, palaces and dynasty. Bin Laden loathed him and volunteered to fight him in 1991, if Saudi Arabia would only not bring the Americans in to do the fighting Islamic warriors ought to be doing themselves."



"Why did the ayatollah let the American hostages go as Reagan raised his right hand to take the oath of office? Why did Syria not rush to the rescue of Hezbollah? What did Ahmadinejad not rocket Tel Aviv in solidarity with his embattled allies in Lebanon? Res ipse loquitor. The thing speaks for itself. They don’t want war with Israel, and they don’t want war with the United States.

'Islamo-fascism' should be jettisoned from Bush’s vocabulary. It yokes the faith of a billion people with an odious ideology. Imagine how Christians would have reacted, had FDR taken to declaring Franco’s Spain and Mussolini’s Italy 'Christo-fascist.'

If Bush does not want a war of civilizations, he will drop these propaganda terms that are designed to inflame passions rather than inform the public of the nature of the war we are in, and the war we are not in."