Why is it a good idea to use the label "Muslim Terrorists?"
Because approximately 99% of the terrorists in the world are muslim.
Even worse, some of the most repressive regimes in the world are the ones who fund the terrorists and and routinely execute and flog homosexuals, religious minorities and women. They do so under the rubric of islam and sharia.
A recent poll found 51% of American muslims in favor of instituting sharia here and the percentages are higher in Europe. Europe started out with our simplistic head in the sand approach to the problem and now some Euro countries are within hailing distance of muslim majorities, if demographic trends continue.
Islam is and always has been hostile to homosexuals, women, political freedoms like free speech, freedom of religion etc. Those are its core tenets, not some sick perversion of them.
If we can't acknowledge basic facts and call a problem by the name it has historically worn how can we resist it?
Ultra orthodox Jews constitute what percent of the world's population? .00001%?
Muslims constitute ~25% and they cling to an ideology that is by its very nature expansionist. Probably most of those muslims just want to live their lives and not bother anyone. But the fact those majorities fail to rein in the radicals and in poll after poll, whether here or in the ME, demonstrate majority sympathy or acquiescence for most of the action of the radicals indicates we, the West, are facing, as we have for 1400 years, an ideology that is as aggressive, expansionist and intolerant of Western ideals like political and religious freedom as fascism and communism were/are. Let's not forget it was only Charles Martel who prevented the overrunning of Europe by the Moors from the South only a hundred years after islam was founded and it was only King Sobieski who prevented its overrunning from the east almost 1000 year later at the gates of Vienna.
It has never reformed and has never given up. The only times it has been relatively quiescent have been when someone put their boot on its throat after being attacked.
Even the freest majority muslim nations like Indonesia, Malaysia have quite recent histories of genocides and dictators and continuing intolerance and rampant repression of non muslim minorities that we in the West would consider barbaric if they happened here.
Japan and Germany were two small countries that managed to create a colossal war over the entire globe that the rest of the world could very easily have lost. They had ~1.5% of the world population. Islam spreads and influences things much more gradually and effectively and is therefore harder to resist. But its aim is not significantly different. The only real difference is instead of calling it a Reich they call it a Caliphate.
No thanks.
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