One can call radical Islamic terrorism “radical Islamic terrorism” and if you do that, you will encourage people who see evidence of radical Islamic terrorism to do something about it.
OR
You can call radical Islamic terrorism “workplace violence” or the “act of an isolated sick individual” and caution people against implicating Islamist doctrine, and the results are as follows:
SAN BERNADINO:
“Read the last paragraphs of this CBS Los Angeles report about the police raid on Syed Farook’s home: A man who has been working in the area said he noticed a half-dozen Middle Eastern men in the area in recent weeks, but decided not to report anything since he did not wish to racially profile those people. “We sat around lunch thinking, ‘What were they doing around the neighborhood?’” he said. “We’d see them leave where they’re raiding the apartment.””
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/427960/san-bernardino-shows-high-cost-political-correctness-david-french
FORT HOOD:
According to Ms. Rossmiller, the doctrine of “political correctness” hindered the American army from taking action against Major Hasan, even though the signs of his radicalization were apparent as far back as Spring 2008, when questions were raised about Hasan’s mental health. One official expressed concern that Hasan would leak information to Islamic terrorists if deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan; another feared that Hasan would kill his fellow servicemen while on duty. Even the FBI was aware of Hasan’s open expression of jihadist sentiments, and many reports were compiled on his behavior. Nonetheless, his supervising officials made no attempt to launch an official inquiry out of fear that such actions would be regarded as “religious discrimination.”
http://www.meforum.org/2533/political-correctness-fort-hood
ORLANDO:
The FBI placed Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, 29, on its terrorist watch list in 2013 after co-workers reported that he had made “inflammatory comments” they felt showed his sympathies for terrorist groups.
When agents questioned him, they determined that Mateen “had not broken any laws,” and closed the investigation. In Obama’s America, it’s not illegal to declare your sympathies for radical Islamic terrorist groups - even repeatedly and vehemently, as Mateen’s co-workers claim was the case - because radical Islamic terrorism doesn’t exist. So the FBI took him off the watchlist.
That, Mr. B. O., is why you use the term “radical Islamic terrorism”: to encourage people who recognize the signs of it to do something about it, and in so doing save the lives of people in San Bernadino, Fort Hood, and Orlando.
Thank you.