More on Islamic fascism

Katha Pollitt has an article in the Nation, which gives us a different perspective on the reasons why the use of the expression “Islamic fascism” or “Islamofascism.” Her argument is more political than mine, but it is worth reading. She argues that Islamic fascism is not an intellectual term, but an emotional one. I agree because the use of that expression is based not on reason or on the facts, but on a desire to connect what scared us in the past with what is scaring us now. Those who use that term are refusing stubbornly and angrily to accept that there is a lot that we don’t know about our world, its present and its future, and that what threatens use doesn’t have to be the same to be dangerous. The fact that Islamism is not Nazism or Fascism doesn't mean that it is as dangerous of an ideology, just that it is different and that difference shouldn't be denied or camouflaged with the use of expressions such as Islamic fascism or islamofascism for two simple reasons. One, it is important to get a different mindset in order to understand the world as it  is and to fight Islamism without alienating the billions of Muslims in the world. It is important not to give those Muslim the impression is their religion, which is the problem and not the people who interpret him and those who stand silent when it used for destructive means. Second, we are not in the middle of a third world and we are never going to win the fight against Islamism militarily. I believe that Islamism is just one of the forms of the forces, which threaten the modern world, which is the part of the world, which believes in humanity and its ability to make the world better with science and culture. What scares me is that because Islamism has had some successes terrorizing the world, that other forces of intolerance will start to use violence and terrorism to express their anger against modernity and to restore an order based on tradition, nature, religion, or force whose time has passed.