In proffering a new label to describe terrorists, President Bush cooks up controversy.
By SUSAN ASCHOFF, Times Staff Writer
Published August 22, 2006
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We knew about the war on terror. We knew about the war on al-Qaida. We knew about the war on Islamic extremists.
But fascists?
On talk TV and talk radio and in talk from the podiums of news conferences, terrorists are being labeled fascists. President Bush, in his first statements after a thwarted plot to blow up airplanes over the Atlantic, called the plan proof we're at war with "Islamic fascists."
His choice of words provoked American Muslims, Middle East leaders and some of Bush's own supporters.
The term fascists is inaccurate, they said, and Islamic fascists defames all Muslims. Saudi Arabia issued an unusually harsh rebuke of its ally. And the honest among us admit consulting a dictionary to recheck the definition of a word we thought we knew.
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