So Mehdi Bray wants an apology from President Bush.

Why ... why ... (as the exquisitely named Bray sees it) the nerve of this guy! -- blasting "Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom..."

"There is no doctrine of fascism in Islam," according to Bray, who heads up the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation and was addressing an anti-Bush, anti-Israel rally in Washington over the weekend.

Gosh. Really?

From the look of things, many had concluded Bush owed an apology all right -- to the late Herr Hitler for lowering him, morally, to the level of the Islamofascists who scheme to blow up as many civilians as possible on every possible occasion, with all possible disruption to normal life everywhere.

What do we need to see, really, in order to prove degeneracy -- banners and armbands and jackboots? Wasn't it enough, prior to the ceasefire, just to turn on the television and watch the Katyusha rockets?

Worth noting as well is the ongoingness of the Islamic -- because I don't think Anglicans or Presbyterians are involved in it -- assault on British, not to mention Israeli, society. As of Monday, British police were looking into 70 non-Anglican, non-Presbyterian "terror plots" against the public safety -- this, just 13 months after 56 people died in suicide blasts on London buses.

Sticks and stones tossed by the kind of people who would applaud a Mehdi Bray won't break any presidential bones. Nevertheless, they remind us of the character of this enemy. That character is monstrous -- "a force so dark," Janet Daley calls it in Britain's Daily Telegraph this week, "that it is almost incomprehensible to democratic people."

I do not think Bush's point about fascism was that would-be airplane bombers go goose-stepping about in fantastic uniforms. I think the point was that the cold cruelty and malice of the Islamic fascists, their indifference to innocent life, their disposition to violence call the Nazis unmistakably to mind. Continued...