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This article is a list of pejorative political slogans. 

== Islamofascism ==

Some people think that the term "Islamofascism" is used as a one-word slogan implying that Islam or Islamic culture has much in common with Fascism. But this is not correct. The term ''Islamofascists'' refers solely to those who claim to be Muslims but are considered by their opponents as [[fascism|fascists]] with Islamic background. Nevertheless several Muslims find the term insulting, as it sug(contracted; show full)
Tory was also used in USA to describe the loyalists during the [[American Revolution]].

The term Whig was originally used to mean a Scottish Presbyterian, particularly a Covenanter in rebellion against the Crown.   The origin of the word is obscure but it may refer to a group of seventeenth century Scottish rebels whose attack on Edinburgh is called the Whiggamore Raid.    Alternatively "whigmaleerie" is an old Scottish word meaning a silly idea.

==Wowser==

A New Zealand term, almost obs
eolete.  Originally it meant an Abolitionist, alcohol not slavery.  It also came to mean a killjoy, someone whose opposition to alcohol extended to all social jollity.

== External links ==

* [http://www.dki.antifa.net/inipa/islamofascism.html An Antifascist dissident in Berlin discusses: Is there such a thing as Islamofascism?]