Isn't the term "Islam" good enough ?

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Nov 15, 2009 at 15:14

>If there was such a word, I'd use it. So Islamorealism is the term of choice at the moment until something better comes along. <

I myself prefer simply the word "Islam" which is precise and nasty enough. I don't know what Latin or Greek or English prefix or affix might make it uglier, more irrational, more horrifying and more inhuman. That the PC media use the term apologetically hardly justifies the creation of redundant neologisms in my opinion. Have we got a better term than "Nazism" or "fascism" to describe the known horrors and yet both were taken precisely from the apologetic vocabulary of the Nazis themselves. Do we need "Nazismophobia", "Nazismo-realism", "Nazismo-disappointedness", "Nazimania" etc. to serve better our intellectual or emotional needs while dealing with the subject ?

Frankly speaking, when I say "Islam" and "Moslem" I ALWAYS mean it ...

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