Islam is not rational because for the most part it has failed to experience the enlightenment and the Reformation. It operates as though it were European Christianity in the 30 Years War. There is no conception of toleration which means at the individual level there is no golden rule. It also means that there is no scientific method but rather an authoritarian philosophy guided by superstition.
To declare that this distorted mind warp is a "religion of peace" is absurd but it was an understandable position for Bush to take. If one is trying to motivate his own nation and align allies in a multigenerational, intercontinental world war against militant Islam, it is understandable that Bush thought it better to call it a war on "terrorism."
That strategy has obviously failed and it is time to consider that Europe is about to be lost and, with Europe, the war against Islam itself. We have got to win the propaganda war which we are clearly losing and that means we have to describe Islam for what it is just as we had to fight the fellow travelers in our midst when it came time to accurately describe the horror of communism.
We might ask Israelis how it has been done since 1948 with some success, at least until now.
