The only thing I can figure is that your average pols are so driven to be liked, popular, and voted for that they rationalize themselves into the ridiculous.
They must somehow convince themselves that Muslim terrorists just want to terrorize—and adopt Islam as their cover story.
That we put such empty heads into positions of political power is just scary.
It makes me wonder whose votes they are winning by pretending Islam doesn’t inspire terrorism. Moslems, obviously, but there aren’t that many in the country, as a percentage, and there are only a few areas where they are an electorally significant concentration.