If so, that was good advice.
You don’t declare war, even informally, on 1.2B people if you can avoid it.
Even if it’s a transparent political ploy, a legal fiction that Islam itself is not the problem can be useful.
That should not, of course, blind us to the fact that it very largely is the problem and should not impact our actual strategy and tactics.
It appears that many of our political and possibly even military leaders have fully bought into our legal and diplomatic fiction, which is really, really stupid.
You should never start believing your own propaganda.
Actually, I don’t think they believe their nonsense about Islam,
but are actually in support of Islam as an anti-Christian movement.