Islamic Fascism is Islamofascism by Another Name

William Shawcross has a salutory article in the Jerusalem Post entitled "Yes, the Problem is Islamic Fascism." He notes the "moral madness" as the ineradicable virus known as leftist anti-Americanism proliferates among the ill-lettered EU masses. A couple of money quotes:

It took President George W. Bush to tell the truth to Britain about the massive plot to blow US-bound airliners out of the sky. In his first comment on the apparently foiled attempt to explode airliners flying from Britain to the US, Bush put it simply: "This was a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists."

He is right. But in the early news reports in Britain the words "Islamist" or "Muslim" were hardly emphasized. Let alone "extremist" or the dread word "fascist." Instead the common code words on television were that the 24 men arrested were "British-born" and "of Pakistani origin."

No mention of their Islamist ideology. Did the BBC think they might turn out to be from Pakistan's embattled Christian minority? I don't think so.

In Europe the truth is so terrible that we are in denial. Perhaps it is understandable. We simply do not wish to face the fact that we really are threatened by a vast fifth column - that there are thousands of European-born people, in Britain, in France, in Holland, in Denmark, everywhere - who wish to destroy us. They are part of a wider war, what Tony Blair rightly calls an "arc of extremism" - Islamist extremism.

Europeans brought on two world wars by their reckless militarism and then feckless denial that a disaster like the Great War could happen again. Their smug little bourgeois head-in-the-sand mentality cannot admit that their cozy little "social paradise" is being threatened by the so-called "political refugees" and Commonwealth members they fatuously let invade their countries in an historic fit of absent-mindedness.

That's okay, Europe. We're doing the same thing in the USA with the help of the very US President who decries Islamic Fascism while at the same time welcoming a reconquista horde of unwashed wetbacks into the USA.

And speaking of reconquista, do the witless hordes of Espana realize that Osama bin Laden wants Andalusia back, and really doesn't care so much for oil-profits as much as historical vengeance. Let the sleepyheads in Europe forget their proud tradition of Roland and Roncevalles as they doze in tapas-laden bars and mid-day siestas. Another Madrid is bound to happen, either in Barcelona or elsewhere in the EU. More on back when men were men:

As the American historian Victor Davis Hanson recently pointed out in these pages, there is a kind of moral madness at work here.

We refuse to admit that there is a pattern to global terrorism. European papers are frightened to publish cartoons which some Muslim leaders demand we censor, but are happy to portray the Israelis as latter-day Nazis. Not for nothing does Hanson say we have forgotten the terrible lessons of 1938.

The same people who scream the sky is falling concerning tiny bits of evidence about global warming laugh when comparisons with Hitler are brought up---although the evidence is huge and staring them in the face that Islamic Fascists are plotting right in their home towns in terrorist dens laughingly called "mosques." In South Lebanon, mosques are where the rocket launchers are stored and the bivouacs of Hezbollah Command and Control are headquartered. Shawcross notes that the UK, unlike France and Spain and until recently, Germany, has a real leader whose perspective goes beyond being popular in the ultra-left MSM:

In Britain we are actually quite lucky. We have a prime minister who, in my view, has committed many, many errors at home; but abroad Tony Blair has a clear vision, both moral and pragmatic, of the threat that we face.

And for this he is mocked and abused as nothing more than Bush's "poodle."

In a thoughtful recent speech in Los Angeles Blair spoke of fighting an "arc of extremism." That extremism is Islamic extremism, whether it is inspired al-Qaida or by Teheran, whether its foot soldiers are Sunni or Shi'ite, whether they were born in Britain, or southern Lebanon, or Iran, or Saudi Arabia, or anywhere else.

As Blair said: The battle is over the values that are to govern the future of the worlds. "Are they those of tolerance, freedom, respect for difference and diversity; or those of reaction, division, hatred?"

"This is war," said Blair.

Blair's talk in Los Angeles got little coverage in the US mainstream media, as it does not parrot the Pravda-on-the-Hudson twaddle concerning the need to confabulate, negotiate, play pattycake, ignore the wolf at the door, and yell about global warming.

But Bush and Blair are two leaders of courage who hopefully will be regarded as such after a successful confrontation of the Islamic terrorist threat rightfully called Islamic Fascism.