re: #803 Obdicut

That’s rather unfair, given that Iossarian has made a perfectly good argument that’s not dependent at all on PC.

I, personally, don’t really care if we call radical Islam radical Islam or not. I’d kind of prefer that we call Wahhabists Wahhabists, and Shi’ite fanatics Shi’ites, etc. That way you’re being more accurate— which is the putative reason for saying “Radical Islam”— without associating ‘radical’ with ‘Islam’ over and over.

iossarian did make a good argument.
I do not agree with it.

“Radical Islam” is a perfectly good expression. I think it’s out of favor with some folks simply because it came into general use after the 9/11 attacks, when Bush was President.

It is certainly a better description than what he suggested, “violent religious extremism”. When we talk about Christian extremism, we have no problem mentioning Christianity. Why the sensitivity to mentioning Islamic extremism?