Pussyfoot - v. To act timidly to avoid committing oneself...

According to The Daily Express, Gordon Brown is going to ban the terms "Muslim terrorist" and "war on terror". Is it too much to point out that the terrorists are Muslims and that their perverted view of the Muslim faith is what is spurring them to engage in terrorism?

While Patrick Mercer absolutely is correct when he says that, “the vast majority of Muslims are not involved in terrorism” that does not make this “quite a smart idea.” The vast majority of terrorists are radical Muslims. I don’t seem to recall the Brits being concerned at referring to the IRA terrorists as Catholic or, for that matter, Irish. Sure, there are different terrorists in the world and some are not motivated by perverted misconceptions of the Muslim faith but by de-emphasizing the religious nature of these terrorists we are losing something important from the discussion.

If the good and decent Muslims in the world, who do indeed make up the vast majority of Muslims, are concerned with the connections between their faith and terrorists, they should be upset with the terrorists who are stridently making those connections and not the Kafir who are pointing out that groups called the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Islamic Jihad, or the Party of God (Hezbollah) are the ones who are connecting Islam to terrorism.

By ignoring the fact that the driving principal of these groups is to violently promote their depraved hijacking of a noble religion, we are making it more difficult to win this war. We do need, as Gordon Brown implies, better relations with Muslims throughout the world. The way to do that is not by ignoring the religious nature of the terrorists but by pointing out that we understand that these repugnant distortions of Islam are as much a threat to true Islam as they are to the Western world.