You’re right. The term Islamist was used by the fellow I was responding to.
Islam is not worth close scrutiny. It’s not worth parsing. It is a cancer, and cancer’s only purpose is to consume the host. The only correct response to cancer is to remove it - cut it out.
If we generalize about Muslims then we’re unnecessarily making enemies of millions of very decent people who have historically been our good friends. Neutralize the moderate clerics and radical Islam would simply fade away (or, better yet, use intel resource to get them to destroy each other).