[semimojo]

If you are a Muslim who wants British law supplanted by Islamic law, that is not a moderate position, even if you’re not prepared to drive a van into a crowd of infidels over it. If that’s where you’re coming from, you are a Muslim extremist — an Islamist.

McCarthy is saying there's no useful linguistic distinction between those who want to achieve ther goals peacefully and those who resort to terrorism.

That doesn't make any sense.

[RoosterRedux]

The way I read that is that he’s not saying their isn’t a difference. He’s just saying that they are both islamists in that they have the same ultimate goal...sharia and muslim domination.