Feingold Slams Bush's Language: "Islamic Fascism" Is "Misleading And Offensive"...

Associated Press Frederic J. Frommer September 12, 2006 at 04:41 PM
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Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record) called onPresident Bush to refrain from using the phrase "Islamic fascists," saying it was offensive to Muslims and has nothing to do with terrorists fighting the United States.

"We must avoid using misleading and offensive terms that link Islam with those who subvert this great religion or who distort its teachings to justify terrorist activities," Feingold said Tuesday in a speech to the Arab American Institute on Capitol Hill.

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The rhetoric about "Islamic fascism" is a pack of lies--another attempt to repackage the increasingly unpopular "war on terror" by identifying a current enemy of the U.S. government with something that everyone can be counted on to oppose. Identifying latter-day enemies with the Nazis a longstanding public relations tool of the U.S. government. Washington politicians claimed that Saddam Hussein--whose secular Baathist Party was a sworn enemy of the Islamists--was the "new Hitler" before both the 1991 and 2003 wars on Iraq. Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic became a Hitler shortly before Bill Clinton launched the NATO war over Kosovo. Even the radical populist Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, toppled in a U.S.-engineered coup in 2004, was branded a "new Hitler"--by none other than former Sen. Jesse Helms, the arch-racist who kept up close ties with Aristide's enemies in Haiti, the FRAPH death squads, which actually do resemble fascism...

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