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In The Beginning There Was The Word

Dog of Flanders has coined (at least I assume it's his coinage -- I haven't seen it anywhere else, and I've read a fair bit on the topic) a useful neologism for Islamic terrorists: Islamikazes.

(Or ~kazis. Whichever spelling you prefer.)

Much tidier and more euphonious than the alternatives -- Islamofascists; suicide (or homicide) bombers; radical nutbars; Koranikovs (heh, I just made that one up myself), etc.

Islamikazes. Rolls off the tongue, it does.

I'm going to use it exclusively in the future, and if a few other people (which would describe my audience) follow suit . . . hey, we just might get it into the next revision of the OED.

Islamikazes. Write it on your hand, you'll never forget it.


UPDATE: I've since been informed by Dog of Flanders and others that the term was originated by Raphael Israeli, in a paper on the psychology of Islamist jihadis.

But I still intend to use it.

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