William Brandt writes:
>You don't know who we are at war with Bob? Islamic fundamentalists.

I have become more and more disturbed by the use of the term "Islamic
fundamentalists".  I do not blame William, of course, since this is the
favorite term of the Press.  The problem is that murder of innocents is not
a fundamental of Islam.  What we are dealing with are murderers who distort
the teachings of their religion to justify their murder.  "Muslim
extremists" or even "quasi-Muslim terrorists" would be better terms.  The
use of this terminology by the press has two unfortunate side-effects: It
tends to unfairly brand all Muslims, and it legitimizes the terrorists by
implying that they are merely being devout.

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