FrontPage falsely presents Spencer as defender of the term "Islamo-fascism" by Lawrence Auster

The article at FrontPage Magazine today under Robert Spencer's byline, "Islamo-Fascism Denial," consisting of a lengthy defense of the term "Islamo-fascism," is very strange. It doesn't read like something written by Spencer. It makes arguments I haven't seen him make. Spencer, as I've pointed out previously, has never to my knowledge used or advocated the use of the expression "Islamo-fascist" to describe jihadists. Not only does he do so here, but the whole tone and thrust of the piece suggests to me that at least part of the article, and very possibly the whole of it, was written by FP editor David Horowitz. For one thing, the article has a heavy focus on the radical leftist groups that support the jihadists, which is not something Spencer has written about to my knowledge, but of course is a central theme of Horowitz's. In its third paragraph the article pointedly defends Horowitz from the left's charge of racism based on his campaign against racial reparations. This is obviously Horowitz doing what he does all the time, which is to ward off leftist attacks against himself; it is clearly not written by Spencer.

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