As I said, they don't attack us because we're free, they attack us because it is a religious war and they identify us as Christians. They explicitly call us Crusaders. We need to identify who we're fighting and what we're defending. Screw radical Islamic terrorism, that implies that some types of terror isn't radical, we're fighting Islamic terrorism.
It implies it's radical
Islam, as opposed to normal Islam. I understand that the right wing is far more in favor of using language that castigates an entire group of people and not worrying about what segments feel lumped together under the same brushstroke, but that's precisely why Obama goes out of his way to not feed that perception. He's the head of a party that is far more keen on inclusiveness and is purposely eschewing divisive language. Nobody is in the dark about what religion these terrorists operate in the name of, but they are
not typical adherents.
The right wing's desire to verify the crusader like identity that our enemies wish to impart us with is playing directly into their hands. You're letting them win the ideological battle when you give into the xenophobic hate people like Donald Trump spew about Muslims, as if they are problem as a whole. That type of marginalization is exactly what ISIS wants, and the fact that the right wing gets in a tizzy about it every time Obama refuses to say it reveals how a simple, accurate descriptor that applied to a branch of religious extremists became warped to vilify an entire religious group.
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