Reply #39: It's a stupid offensive term...

[MrPrax]

I always figured it was Bush/Neo-Con NewSpeak -- a conjunction of two jarring terms that are negative.

The two have nothing to do with each; a society ruled by clergy and religious law is a theocracy; no sense to INVENT new terms simply to appeal to the more stridently ignorant in English-speaking societies...Europe and the Middle East lived in theocracies for centuries.

The Islamic fundamentalism is motived by 'restoration'. Fascism posits an individual allegience and devotion to State, Corporation and Leader which would be blasphemous to Muslims. Fundamentalist tend to be Literalists -- governed by religous doctrine and not the speeches of a leader with a personality cult. It's doesn't fit.

Fascism in it's ultimate expression is a religion; a State cult.

So it's doesn't make much sense to associate Muslims to the Nazis, unless your attempting to suggest that the 'shared trait' is racist anomsity to Jewish people.

Mutually exclusive ... like calling Plato a Communist.