re: #790 Walter L. Newton

Are you suggesting that the term “radical Islam” refers to all those “Muslims out there who are perfectly normal and reasonable”?

No, I’m suggesting it’s a needlessly antagonistic phrase to use when “violent religious extremism” will do just as well.

The reason it’s antagonistic is because there is nothing about being a radical Muslim that necessarily entails being violent (even though, yes, there are probably* more violent radical Muslims than there are violent radical Christians).

*I say probably because I am in no way an expert in counting violent radical religious people.