It's really, really hard to talk about radical Islamic terrorism

[MadDAsHell]

113. I wouldn't say it's hard, but it's hard for liberals/progressives, for multiple reasons:

1) Liberals/progressives historically have issues with fundamentalist Christians (FC's), and the way FC's try to force their beliefs on everyone else (anti-abortion efforts, Ten Commandments monuments, school prayer, etc.). Shifting to a focus on radical Islam is not easy, and frankly I think some liberals/progressives would rather focus on the "easy" issues with Christians like Ten Commandment monuments and school prayer, than on the more difficult issue of mass killings due to radical Islam.


2) Liberals/progressives have spent so much of the last 15 years focused on defending Arabs from racism, that they've lost the ability to (appropriately) condemn radical Islam, regardless of the race of the perpetrator. It's almost like we've forgot that Islam does not equal Arab. It IS possible to condemn all Islamic extremism without condemning all Arabs, people.


3) Liberals/progressives always consider historical context, sometimes to a fault. It's amazing how many people want to defend today's Islamic extremism by saying Christians did the same thing during the Crusades a thousand years ago.

Such thinking assumes Muslims are similarly as uneducated and unenlightened as the Christians were during the Crusades, and thus they should be "excused" when they commit violent behavior. And if you think Muslims are uneducated or unenlightened, then you really ARE a bigot.