Islamofascism, a term popularized by George Bush before the career Dems that wring their hands within the State Department began to complain about this term, is an unnecessary elaboration of a concept well-known to even our Founding Fathers.  The Moroccan "barbary coast pirates" that converted so many American  and British colonists into shackeled slaves at one time demanded one million dollars from our first President, George Washington. This was to be paid as a ransom for our early citizens enslaved by these pirates as our ships were illegally boarded and our wares confiscated.  These were Muslims, driven by the same hatred for Christians and Jews that prevails today.  The Koran and its supporting documents, in the main, support the killing of non-believers or the dhimmies who refuse to pay ransoms.  Only left wing pacifists and their ilk blame our Country for bad relations with Muslims abroad.  They refuse to believe that orthodox Muslims following orthodox Islam would take an innocent life, or that their faith is driven by violence.  Even a cursory review of the Koran reveals that violence is an accepted practice amongst Muslims.  So called "moderate Muslims" are the equivalent of the non-practicing Catholic or the "reformed Jew" in that they do not follow all of the tenets of their faith, but try to respect most of them.  Moderate Muslims are not well versed in the details of Islam, as the details would reveal to the careful but casual observer that murder and torture are accepted practices within Islam.  Our Founders knew this.  Over 3000 Americans learned this within a few fateful minutes on September 11, 2001 in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.  We who read and refuse to gloss over know this.  And yes, even the peacenik handringers who pace the halls of the State Department know this.  But they have decided, as a matter of political correctness, to try to conceal this by issuing edicts that force our citizenry to avoid terminology that embues the truth.  But denial of these truths deprive us of certain liberties, which we must never allow.  Please pick up a copy of Andrew McCarthy's  Willful Blindness:A Memoir of the Jihad.  Read it and also read any book by Robert Spencer.  Go to Daniel Pipes.com and read articles by this Islam expert, and then refresh your knowledge of the handful of Crusades that existed in centuries past.  Maybe members of the State Department will do the same.  Because after their communique released this week to abandon words like Islamofascism and Jihad, the well-read among us will know who  is denying the truth and eroding our liberty.