Michael Rubin
After every Al Qaeda or Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack, there are two common refrains heard in the West. The first is that Islam has nothing to do with it. Last night, in his State of the Union address, for example, President Obama avoided mention of radical Islam and instead fell back on the tired trope of “ideology of violent extremism.” Such political correctness forgets that the most frequent targets and greatest number of victims of radical Islam are moderate Muslims.
After every Al Qaeda or Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack, there are two common refrains heard in the West. The first is that Islam has nothing to do with it. Last night, in his State of the Union address, for example, President Obama avoided mention of radical Islam and instead fell back on the tired trope of “ideology of violent extremism.” Such political correctness forgets that the most frequent targets and greatest number of victims of radical Islam are moderate Muslims.









