The pairing of "Islam" and "fascism" has no parallel in characterizations of extremisms tied to other religions, although the defining movements of fascism were linked to Catholicism -- indirectly under Benito Mussolini in Italy, explicitly under Francisco Franco in Spain. Protestant and Catholic terrorists in Northern Ireland, both deserving the label "fascist," never had their religions prefixed to that word. Nor have Hindu extremists in India, nor Buddhist extremists in Sri Lanka.
-- James Carroll, "Islamofascism's Ill Political Wind"

"[The Republicans] gave us a president who, with all due respect to fools and idiots, is a fool and an idiot."
-- Garrison Keillor