You can simultaneously fight against right-wing politicians who would capitalize on terrorism and also acknowledge that these aren&#x27;t &quot;crazy people who happen to be Muslims,&quot; these are committed killers who are murdering in the name of a particular strain of revolutionary, extreme Islam.  If a well-organized and philosophically consistent group of Christians were organizing mass shootings with motives gleaned from radical Christian theology, you would be completely justified in pointing to a problem within radical Christianity.  For example: I&#x27;m a moderate Catholic myself.  I condemn the Westboro Baptist Church and their strain of apocalyptic nonsense.  If you want to criticize fundamental Christianity on the basis that it spawned those maniacs, go ahead.  Just the same, please don&#x27;t pretend that somehow these acts are completely divorced of Islam.  We&#x27;re not stupid, we can distinguish between moderates and terrorists.  It&#x27;s intellectually vapid to say over and over that somehow an ideology firmly based in one religion cannot be criticized on the basis of their professed beliefs and motivations.