more on Islamism as 'new social movement'

[joanna bujes]

At 06:11 PM 11/15/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >the leftist habit of
> >reducing everything bad to "fascism."
>
>You mean a habit among a majority of leftists? A significant minority
>of leftists? I'm confused about what's the correct language when
>making sweeping claims about that entity which does not exist.

Aw hell...a leftie calling something/somebody fascist is kinda like a 
menopausal mom calling her teenage daughter a "slut" ....probably not 
accurate, certainly not effective, but enormously morally satisfying to the 
aforesaid mom...who despairs of anything but a moral form of satisfaction.

The parallel here is meant to be loose and poetic.  Caveat emptor.

Joanna