'Islamofascism" (coined in 1990?)

[Barry Popik]

This is "Islamofascism Awareness Week," and Christopher Hitchen writes
in Slate that "Islamofascism" was coined in the Independent (London)
in 1990. OED agrees, and the citation is featured on a Wikipedia page.
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However, the term "Islamic fascism" was used in the 1980s, referring
to the events in Iran. Shouldn't there be some note that this
("Islamic fascism") is the origin of the term ("Islamofascism")?
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(Oxford English Dictionary)
Islamofascism, n.

depreciative.
[< ISLAMO- comb. form + FASCISM n.]
    The advocacy or practice of a form of Islam perceived as
authoritarian, intolerant, or extremist; spec. Islamic fundamentalism
regarded in this way.

1990 Independent 8 Sept. 15/8 Islamic societies seem to have found it
particularly hard to institutionalise divergences politically:
authoritarian government, not to say 'Islamo-fascism', is the rule
rather than the exception. 2002 National Rev. (U.S.) (Nexis) 10 Apr.,
You cannot deny that a brand of Islam is most certainly at war with
us. You can call this brand Islamofascism, radical Islam, Wahhabism,
whatever you want.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2176389
fighting words: A wartime lexicon.
Defending IslamofascismIt's a valid term. Here's why.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, Oct. 22, 2007, at 11:33 AM ET

The attempt by David Horowitz and his allies to launch "Islamofascism
Awareness Week" on American campuses has been met with a variety of
responses.
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The term Islamofascism was first used in 1990 in Britain's Independent
newspaper by Scottish writer Malise Ruthven, who was writing about the
way in which traditional Arab dictatorships used religious appeals in
order to stay in power. I didn't know about this when I employed the
term "fascism with an Islamic face" to describe the attack on civil
society on Sept. 11, 2001, and to ridicule those who presented the
attack as some kind of liberation theology in action. "Fascism with an
Islamic face" is meant to summon a dual echo of both Alexander Dubcek
and Susan Sontag (if I do say so myself), and in any case, it can't be
used for everyday polemical purposes, so the question remains: Does
Bin Ladenism or Salafism or whatever we agree to call it have anything
in common with fascism?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamofascism
Islamofascism is a controversial neologism suggesting an association
of the ideological or operational characteristics of certain modern
Islamist movements with European fascist movements of the early 20th
century, neofascist movements, or totalitarianism.

The word is included in the New Oxford American Dictionary, defining
it as "a controversial term equating some modern Islamic movements
with the European fascist movements of the early twentieth century".
Critics of the term argue that associating the religion of Islam with
fascism is offensive and inaccurate.

Origins and usage
Although Islamofascism is usually a reference to Islamism rather than
Islam in general, comparisons have been made between fascism and
Islam, as far back as 1937, when the German Catholic emigré Edgar
Alexander compared Nazism with "Mohammedanism" [citation needed], and
again, in 1939, when psychologist Carl Jung said about Adolf Hitler,
"he is like Mohammed. The emotion in Germany is Islamic, warlike and
Islamic. They are all drunk with a wild god."[1]

According to Roger Scruton of the Wall Street Journal, the term was
introduced by the French historian Maxime Rodinson to describe the
Iranian Revolution of 1978. Scruton claims that Rodinson "was a
Marxist, who described as 'fascist' any movement of which he
disapproved", but credits him with inventing a "convenient way of
announcing that you are not against Islam but only against its
perversion by the terrorists." [2].

In 1990 Malise Ruthven wrote, in The Independent:

"Nevertheless there is what might be called a political problem
affecting the Muslim world. In contrast to the heirs of some other
non-Western traditions, including Hinduism, Shintoism and Buddhism,
Islamic societies seem to have found it particularly hard to
institutionalise divergences politically: authoritarian government,
not to say Islamo-fascism, is the rule rather than the exception from
Morocco to Pakistan." [3]
Albert Scardino of the The Guardian attributes the term to an article
by Muslim scholar Khalid Duran in the Washington Times, where he used
it to describe the push by some Islamist clerics to "impose religious
orthodoxy on the state and the citizenry".[4]

The related term, Islamic fascism, was adopted by journalists
including Stephen Schwartz[5] and Christopher Hitchens,[6] who
intended it to refer to Islamist extremists, including terrorist
groups such as al Qaeda, although he more often tends to use the
phrases "theocratic fascism" or "fascism with an Islamic face" (a play
on Susan Sontag's phrase "fascism with a human face", referring to the
declaration of martial law in Poland in 1981). [7]
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(GOOGLE NEWS)
MUBARAK'S PLEA Boston Globe
$2.95 - Boston Globe - NewsBank - Mar 15, 1985 They all look on in
horror as The Islamic fascism spawned by The Ayatollah Khomeini takes
root in Lebanon. While Mubarak was visiting Washington, ...
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(GOOGLE BOOKS)
Modern Writings on Islam and Muslims in India - Page 71
by Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui - 1974 - 112 pages

... dominance of the Muslim League and then became the emotional
centre of Pakistan;
most of the students and the staff members supported Islamic fascism. ...
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(GOOGLE BOOKS)
The Human Context: Le Domaine Humain. Der Mensch und Seine Welt.
Hombre Y ... - Page 31
1975

... social control: education is reduced to conditioning, except in
Islamic fascism,
which elevates traditional religious teaching to a dominant position, ...
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(GOOGLE BOOKS)
Cry for My Revolution, Iran - Page 360
by Manoucher Parvin - History - 1987 - 345 pages

They perceive Islamic fascism, this monstrous reality, as a nightmare that will
pass, but the mullahs consider it a dream coming true that will last forever ...
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(GOOGLE BOOKS)
Sadat and After: Struggles for Egypt's Political Soul - Page 126
by Raymond William Baker - Political Science - 1990

... to capitalize on the January disturbances to organize a
revolutionary strike
would probably backfire to the ultimate advantage of an Islamic fascism. ...

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