Yeah, you heard it right he said it: was Bush's use of the term, “Islamic Fascists” appropriate?

President Bush used an expression yesterday to respond to the foiled terrorist plot, which my second favorite law professor Kenneth Anderson (after Jamie Raskin) likes to use Islamic Fascists to describe the "enemy"(Kenneth Anderson actually uses the term "Islamo Fascist" but the meaning is the same) and many Muslim groups criticized the use of the term. The Archbishop of York joined in the criticism by arguing that "It doesn't really work because in the long run you are going to end up with people who may by absolutely innocent being branded as extremists and enemies. [...]I do not think the people who are doing this are doing it because of Islam. [...] Most of them are doing it because they are alienated, because they have been given a vision which is so imaginatively wicked that they believe we can build a better world than actually exists." Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine answered the critics by making a good point, "Well, tough shit. I am bristling at the refusal of the Islamic world to condemn the murder and mayhem being rained down around the world by the extremist fascists among them. Rather than attacking the language in press releases, why not hold a press conference attacking the attackers?" Keith Burgess-Jackson from the Conservative Philosopher argued and I agree with him that the term is inappropriate because it doesn't fit, "The reason it’s inappropriate to describe Islamists as fascists is simple: They’re not statists. To Muslims, including that subset of Muslims I call Islamists (see below), a state is at best a temporary thing, performing certain administrative, organizational, or ideological tasks. It has no independent significance, as it does in, say, the Christian tradition. (“Render unto Caesar” and all that.) Islamists aren’t trying to create a state in which all the parts work as one; their ultimate goal is a stateless world in which everyone worships Allah." Fascism was a movement, which was centered on the idea that blood meant everything; "We think with our blood," which was the motto of Nazism could have also been the one of Fascism. Islamism is different. I think that reasonable people may differ about whether using blunt language is helpful, but I also think that words are important and that in this case, using the term Islamic Fascists confuses things by misnaming people who want to destroy our world.