Pro-Bush blogger calls Moslems of Middle Ages “Islamists”

Years ago a left-wing female acquaintance of mine came back from a vacation in Norway and, in enthusiastically describing her trip, mentioned the “African-Americans” she had seen there. Such was the liberal stricture against the dread word “black” that she even referred to blacks in Norway as African-Americans.

I was reminded of that this morning when a correspondent sent me the following line by “Captain Ed” Morrissey of Captain Quarters’ blog, discussing the pope’s quotation of Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologos which has so angered the followers of Muhammad. Captain Ed wrote:

[T]he controversy over violence in religious conversion is nothing new. Far from Islam and Christianity being at “sword point” at that time because of mutual martial impulses, by that time Christendom had been reeling backwards for centuries from waves of Islamist expansion.

So automatic has it become in the conformist mind of Captain Ed to avoid the word “Islamic” in connection with anything bad, that he even speaks of the original Islamic conquest of half the world as the “Islamist” conquest. As far as the Captain is concerned, even in the 7th century the problem was a few radicals who had hijacked the religion of peace.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 19, 2006 11:53 AM | Send