Abu Wabu

Islamofacism deigns to instruct Americans as to the words they choose to describe that existential enemy; how do we answer that force? Certainly not the way the State Department et al would have it. Andrew C. McCarthy, author of Willful Blindness, knows jihadists as well as anyone in America, and he's not going to be influenced by the call for a jihad against the use of the word "jihad". McCarthy has much to say on this here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Of the links McCarthy provides I was struck by this elegantly illuminating passage from George Weigel's Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism:

There are many forms of Islam. Some of them, often called "fundamentalism" or "Islamism," stress the need for a deep religious and moral reform within the House of Islam and the reestablishment of Islamic political power. The specific form of Islamism that threatens the West — and with which we are engaged in an unavoidable contest to define the human future — is best described as jihadism. Jihadism is distinguished from other forms of Islamism or the ill-named "Islamic fundamentalism" by its distinctive views on Islamic reform, by its political methods and goals (which are messianic and involve nothing less than a global Islamic state), by its concept of its enemies, and by the methods it legitimates for dealing with those enemies.

Jihadism has been defined distinctly and well by Richard John Neuhaus: "Jihadism is the religiously inspired ideology [which teaches] that it is the moral obligation of all Muslims to employ whatever means [are] necessary to compel the world's submission to Islam." (Emphasis mine)

Islamofacism, jihadism, Islamism, those are the names of the enemy. And only I will decide the words I use to address or describe him. You are also free to do so. There is nothing but good in that freedom, unless you are an enemy of that freedom, for example, a jihadist or, more locally, someone stupid enough to want to confer American Constitutional freedoms on jihadists, who operate outside not only the Constitution but the Geneva Conventions as well.

But that's old: anyone who still thinks that way after 9/11 is simply ignorant, for whatever reason: ideology, low IQ, BDS, you're Nancy Pelosi, etc.