The Enemy has a Name

Submitted by Paul la Demain (United States), Jun 19, 2008 at 11:46

Mr. Pipes:

Perhaps the following commentary stems from my own deficiencies, but I must share my concern about your use of two terms: "utopian" (as in: "Islamism, a radical utopian version of Islam") and your use of the adjective "lawful" Islam," (as in: "At one end, the war effort led to the overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan; at the other, it requires repelling the lawful Islamists who work legitimately within the educational, religious, media, legal, and political arenas.")

A connotation of "goodness" is attached to the word "utopian." Roget's Thesaurus associates such words as 'paradise,' 'heaven,' 'eden' etc. to the use of the word "utopian." There is nothing heavenly or edenic or desirable about a political system that offers only two alternatives: death or slavish adherence to pronounced dogma.

Radical Islam IS fascism and in fact was the inspiration for fascism's Mein Kampf. In short, the radical principles of Islam's Sharia were effectively transmuted into fascism for the advancement of Germany's Third Reich. As for the adjective 'lawful'--that word also carries a connotation of approval and thus the use of this word in connection with the radical Islamic's use of propaganda and foreign-funded suasion (instead of murder and torture) for to advance radical Islamism is, to say the least, extremely off-putting.

Some modest suggestions: 1) Eliminate all reference to or use of the word 'utopia' when referring to the societal system radical Islamics intend to impose on the Free World, and 2) Instead of using the word 'lawful' to describe "Islamic invasion through non-violent means," substitute the words "Islamic litigious use of our legal system toward the purpose of overthrowing our system of government and replacing it with Sharia." Or simply describe Islamofascism as: "The use of "non-violent means for the purpose of overthrowing our Constitution-based form of government. Strangely enough, Iran's dictator, Ahmenijad, offers a more succinct term by which to describe Islamism's objectives--a term which we are free to borrow and associate with Islamic objectives--and that word is "cancerous" ... yes, Islamism is a cancer that aspires to invade and destroy the Free World.

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