For future etymologists, this is the first use of this neologism.

Islamikaze?
Nah, I've seen that on some Israeli sites before. I do love the term though.

"It steam-engines come steam-engine time" I guess. Independent invention.

Yes, a term more than worthy of being invented many times over.

Islamikaze is an insult to the Japaneese. The Japaneese Kamikazes were in the military, wore uniforms, and did not hide behind women and children.

Can I get an AMEN!

'Splodeydopes' captures the essence.

The Japanese also sacrificed themselves for actual military gain, rather than to make political statements. That alone makes them more worthy of respect.

An insult to the Japanese military of the time, yes. I can't say I feel as though we owe any reverance to that particular organism. During World War II, the Japanese military redefined the word 'cruelty' for many, many Allied forces.

In some areas it is deserving of some recognition and/or respect, but I'd rather not mix poison into my wine by saying they deserve any better than what that term implies.

To reinforce my point:

A worthy foe the Japanese miltary was, but the same reasoning that brought the Kamikaze, also brought this:

http://www2.gol.com/users/winjerd/Images/Beheaded.jpg

Thanks god no marines were killed. Its a small victory every time some lunatic blows himself up and doesnt manage to kill anyone. Probably discourages would be bombers.

Re: Japanese in WW2: The Special Attack Squadrons were brave men. But go ask some of the residents of Chungking, or even Bangkok, about the the reality of the "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere".

As for Australians - too many of our dead from New Guinea came back with teethmarks on, the bones cracked to get the marrow for us to forget it.

Conditions in New Guinea were hellish for both sides, and the starving Japanese would often eat their own dead as well as our own. But keeping prisoners as a steady food supply of "meat on the hoof" is something else. And that they did, more than once.
As both eyewitness accounts and captured documents still in existence can attest.

Just don't go blaming the descendents for the misdeeds of their dead ancestors - for when we found them, we slew them, and were content.

There is a bit of a difference between the suicide bombers who usually target civilians (although not in Iraq at this time) and a guy in a uniform who is trying to take down a warship. During WWII only a person was a good enough guidance system to lay a bomb with some certitude on capital ship. A Kamikaze could potentially make a real military contribution. A suicide bomber can really only commit murder.

That said, the word is pretty cool.

Do you find it funny that kamikazes wore helmets?

A quick Google on "Islamikaze" would have saved you the ankle-biting of pedants like me (or, "such as I," if you're also a pedant).

I've seen uses at least as far back as April, 2002, and the term has been in several academic papers in Israel.

Proton : The etymologists of the future will thank you. And I thank you now. Truly "there is nothing new under the Sun". And for that matter "Cursed be those who say my words before me!" :-)

I LOVE THE TERM and I have permanently added it to my dictionary! Let's see if Fox picks it up!

I love islamikaze.

OT
First use of "Baghdad Bob"?
Fox? CENTCOM? Command Post?

How about the French Kamikaze pilot who got a medal for flying 60 missions?

PS. The Brits have a better term for Baghdad Bob - "Comical Ali"

Yeah, I liked Comical Ali better then Bob. & Islamikaze better then homicide/suicide bomber.