People are going wild trying to figure why the San Bernardino mass shooting happened. Mental illness, terrorism, lax gun laws are being blamed. I, for one, think our gun laws are idiotic, and side with DiFi on keeping suspected terrorists away from them. We need to ban assault weapons once again. Bill Clinton had it right back in 1994.
Some of the problem with fighting Radical Islam is that many on the right wing uses racism to bait the left into obfuscating, or denying the problem altogether or claiming that criticizing Islamic theology, or Radical Islamic political ideology is inherently “racist.” The RW wants to register all adherents of Islam, many on the left want to deny that Radical Islam exists at all, or maybe it exists as some kind of reaction to “imperialism,” nevermind that it existed before September 11, 2001.
Islam is not a race; it is a religion. One can change his religion, alter his religious outlook, but one can never change his race. Christianity is a religion, not a race. Jewry is an ethnoreligion: it is both an ethnicity and a religion.
The San Bernardino shooting is simple: if the killers did their actions expressly in the name and/or cause of Islam, it is Islamic terrorist jihad. If the shooters simply happen to be of Muslim faith but did not act in the name and/or cause of Islam, its not Islamic terrorist jihad. One must differentiate practitioners of a religion from ideology. This paragraph does it nice and easy. I cannot stress this distinction enough.