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[Donald Ian Rankin]

I consider Google define to be a more reliable source than wikipedia when it comes to political terms. I don't consider it to be by any means authoritative, which is why I backed it up with two other, more authoritative (although still by no means infallible) sources. The degree of concurrence between the first three sources I checked is sufficient authority for an internet discussion, although if I were writing a PhD thesis I'd use others too.

"Is power resting in the hands of corporations a characteristic of fascism" is not a complex topic, and brief exerts from online dictionaries are sufficient to answer it; the answer is "absolutely not".

I haven't and do not dispute the fact that the term "Islamofascism" was coined by the American right wing; it's not a term I myself ever use; I do think that there are governments (Iran, Syria) and political movements that are clearly both fascist and Islamic; whether or not the two strands in them are sufficiently interlinked to justify a specific term reffering to the combination is debateable; if they are it should be something less perjorative that "Islamofascism".

On political matters, due to their subjectivity and the high proportion of those who devote time to discussing politics on the internet who are better at self-delusion than objectivity there are questions on which I can (with reference to other sources) provide a more valuable opinion that the wikipedia consensus.