Thanks. I’ve had a lot of arguments about this issue.
We consider courage a virtue, so we’re unwilling to recognize they have any virtues at all.
But I’m with you. Anyone willing to blow himself up for a cause may be many things, but he is most certainly not a coward.
This probably arises out of the idiotic notion that bullies are always cowards. They often are, but by no means always. For instance, the Waffen SS has been accused of many things, usually accurately, but never of cowardice.
The world would be a much safer place if bullies really were always cowards.
It is nice and convenient to believe that bullies are cowards, but sometimes they are just sadists.
They can be backed down but only strategically (particularly in the case of islam).
I am still studying the situation (as we all are) but I am leaning to the idea that islam must be exposed to the Truth to be eradicated.
Islam is demonic and nothing short of an exorcism is going to work. IMHO.