Oxymorons in the News Media   The President and virtually every
major U.S. news media persist in using oxymorons: Islamic
extremism, Islamic terrorism, and now, in the President’s
October 6 address to the National Endowment For Democracy,
“Islamo-fascism.”  The President repeated this rhetoric in his
address today, October 25, at the Joint Armed Forces Officers’
Wives’ Luncheon.  For anyone with sufficient knowledge of Islam,
Islamic extremism, Islamic terrorism, Islamo-fascism, etc. are
oxymorons. Islam, as the Quran says, is the middle path. While
some Muslims may properly be addressed as terrorists, etc., to
define them as “Islamic” is an oxymoron.  Perhaps this is a
little difficult for non-Muslims to understand because, unlike
other faiths, the faith and the believer have different names:
Islam and Muslim respectively.  Leaving aside the definition of
terrorism for the moment, Muslim terrorist would be more
accurate, but then one should be consistent when referring to
Christian, Jewish, or Hindu terroris