Thursday, August 31, 2006

Denial is comfortable

Over at HuffingtonPost, R. J. Eskow takes on Pres. Bush's use of the phrase "Islamic fascism." I'll just take one quick excerpt:
The term "Islamic fascism" paints all Muslims with the same brush [emphasis added]
Of course, the term doesn't mean that. Pres. Bush has repeatedly gone out of his way to distinguish between the "religion of peace" and the extremists. (It is obvious that the term "Islamic fascism" refers to a variation of fascism rather than all muslims just like it is obvious that the term "German fascism" refers to a type of fascism and not all Germans.)

It appears that Mr. Eskow finds it easier to criticize his self-created false characterization than to do the hard work of addressing the real issues.

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