&gt; If men, armed with guns and explosives, kill scores of civilians and injure hundreds more in the name of a particular ideology what are we supposed to actually do?<p>What we&#x27;re supposed to do is distinguish them from non-violent people claiming the same named ideology and focus response and condemnation on the murderers, not the community claiming the ideology that the terrorists are <i>trying to target and recruit from with the idea that an apocalyptic existential struggle is in progress between the named ideology and the rest of the world</i>.<p>Because when you <i>do</i> conflate the terrorists with the named ideology that hundreds of millions of people who <i>aren&#x27;t</i> terrorists claim and target your response against that community rather than <i>distinguishing</i> the terrorists from that community and targeting the terrorists, you <i>validate</i> the terrorist propaganda, and <i>make</i> the people that the terrorists <i>want</i> to be your enemies <i>into</i> your enemies.