. We can't fix the stagnant stink that pervades MEast culture, but we should guarantee it doesn't get practiced here.
You are missing the entire point here. With such huge numbers of people running interference for the agenda involved, it WILL get practiced here. It's downright Orwellian, the way such a large part of the left is trying to eliminate the very language that opposes it.
You gotta be able to see what is there right in front of your face, man, yet you fail to see how some of your fellow moderators are working towards that end.
Seems like huge numbers. Really a figment of media emphasis. You got 50 state governments that won't get pushed into suicide pact like policies. And HOPEFULLY changes of administration from folks who have banned any words connecting Islam to radicals or terrorists. Note tho --- that's simply because they speak to the public on an 8th grade level and words are chosen carefully. And "radical Islamic terrorists" may NOT be the most accurate ones.
I would vote for "radicalized terrorists who insist on importing MEast violence and culture" but that's too long for prime time.
Maybe "Terrorists with Radicalized Views of Islam" ??? There's alway room for clarification and improvement.
If the public didn't have the attention of squirrels, you could use MORE words and actually explain what the structure of the threat REALLY is.
When discussing Islam, these adjectives you use take the conversation further away from understanding rather than closer. It isn't just "terrorist" acts that are the problem. It isn't just "Radicalized" Muslims who are the problem. The problems are endemic to the nature of Islam, itself.
Mainstream Islam considers Mohammad the most perfect being. This "perfect" being just so happened to be a rapist, a murderer and had sex with children. He instructed his men to rape women in front of their husbands, he took women as sex slaves and he waged perpetual war against all who would not join him The very doctrine he created is a call to war and a call to submit to him.
Mainstream Islam does not believe in the separation of religion and politics. Mainstream Islam views women as second class citizens. Mainstream Islam does not believe in tolerance of other cultures. Mainstream Islam does not believe in freedom of speech. When you refer to "radicalized" Muslims, only, you are ignoring the fact that Islam, itself, is radical by any sort of liberal, western standard, and in doing so, you only trivialize the difference between this ideology and western liberalism.
Islam divides the world into Dar al Harb (house of war) and Dar al Islam (land where only Islam prevails). We are living in Dar al Harb, and the goal of Islam is to turn this into dar al Islam. So-called "moderate" Muslims believe this just as strongly as do the most radical terrorists, and the only real difference between them have to do with the methods they use to bring it about. Terrorists do the dirty work and act as the bad cops. CAIR and other organizations denounce violence when speaking to Kaffirs but are only acting the role of good cop.
Islam is a totalitarian belief system, and although elements of religion have been grafted on to it to provide it with some cachet, it is essentially a manifesto for world domination. Those in the west ignore that at our own risk.