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chris crash "History of usage

The term "Islamism" first appeared in eighteenth-century France as a synonym for "Islam". At the turn of the twentieth century, it was being displaced by the latter, and by 1938, when Orientalist scholars completed the Encyclopaedia of Islam, had virtually disappeared from the English language.[54] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, usage of the term "Islamism" dates back to 1747.

It was given its modern connotation by French academia in the late 1970s, thence to be incorporated into the English language again, where it has largely displaced "Islamic fundamentalism" as the preferred term." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamist#History_of_usage (not the best souce i know)

By the way, thanks for digging the info out. :)

I couldn't see anything in that link that referred to 'Islamist' as being pejorative ? I do see lots of mentions of 'Islamist' being employed to describe 'Political Islam'.

chris crash
It does not state that it Replaced Islamic Fundimentalism in the last term of Geroge W. Bush, not the 1970s

I am not sure what that sentence means ?

chris crash
the question not asked is why did we sub Islamic fundamentalist for Islamist. i believe the answer is it sounds more like Islam, and to the average person that means Arab, I have known a few people who thought that Islamist was a worshiper of Islam (Muslim was not in their vocabulary), my 10th grade history class was filled with them.

Count me amongst your 10th grade friends as someone who thinks Islamist refers to a follower of Islam.

chris crash
Just like if Hitler had to avoid the term Jew he would have substituted Semite, and may have tryed to find an even better term like Jewist.

Ok.