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'''Islamofascism''' is a term used by some [[Western]] commentators for a group of political ideas within [[Islam]]ic culture. The term is commonly applied to groups that promote [[theocracy]] and oppose [[Westernization]] and [[capitalism]], as opposed to moderate groups that see no contradiction between Islam and Western-style modernism.  Some writers use Islamofascism specifically to refer to [[Wahhabism]] and similar movements in [[Sunni]] Islam, while others use it to refer to all highly politicized strains of Islam, including [[Shiite]] fundamentalism as practiced in [[Iran]].  The term is strongly associated with the [[War on Terrorism]], which many [[conservative]] writers in the [[United States]] describe as a war between [[Western]] ideals and Islamofascism.  As the War on Terrorism has broadened to include combat with largerly secular dicatorships like the regime of [[Saddam Hussein]] in [[Iraq]], the term ''Islamofascism'' has been similarly broadened by some writers to include all targets of the war, diluting the specific connection with militant strains of Islam.

In polemical use, ''Islamofascism'' is often applied to semantically connect radical Islamic groups to the [[fascist]] ideology of the [[Nazi]]s, by emphasizing common features such as [[antisemitism]] and [[totalitarianism]], while ignoring or downplaying the differences between radical Islamic and Nazi ideology.  Associating one's current enemies rhetorically with hated enemies of the past is a common techique in [[propaganda]]. A similar recent example is the term [[feminazi](contracted; show full)

They see a United States' victory over the forces of "Islamofascism" as the historically inevitable consequence of this battle for freedom and democracy.
Some conservative commentators call America's "struggle against Islamofascism" [[World War IV]], in the belief that this is America's fourth struggle against global evil.

They regard those who do not share their views as appeasing totalitarian evil, and characterize them as "the amoral liberal left".