Islamic vs Islamist

A common argument posed by Trumpeteers is that he shouldn’t have to say “White supremacist terrorist” because Obama refused to say “Islamic terrorism”. I partly agree. You ought not to hold one person to the standards you refused to hold another person to. However, there is a difference between Islamic and Islamist. Muslim terrorists aren’t practicing Islamic terrorism. There is no terrorism in the modern interpretation of Islam. Note I said “modern interpretation”. All religions evolve as secular values show that murder and violence is less acceptable, and bigotry is juvenile and unacceptable. Terrorists are Islamists. Islamism is the political and religious movement which aims to create a global Muslim caliphate, often by all necessary means... including violence. There are peaceful Islamists who want the caliphate to come about through expansion of the religion, but the vast majority of Islamists support violence and terrorism. Yes, I realize that many “moderate” Muslims support acts of terror in principal, because they know the goal of their religion is the total covrerage of Islam. However, the number of moderates who would turn themselves over to commiting acts of violence is tiny. Far moe problematic is the (roughly) 10% of Muslims who identify as Islamists. The Christian/Western equivalent is the White Supremacy movement, or Nazis. They are just as committed to the idea that caucasians are superior to other races, and should be in charge... with the Christian faith as the only religion allowed. This is what Trump is being asked to condemn. We want him to call these people out for what they are. Should Obama have identified Islamic terrorism? Of course he should. He should have called Muslim terror out for what it was, Islamist barbarism. However, the job of the President includes the need to protect ALL of the citizens of his/her country, not just a single group. In the US there are large numbers of people who see brown skin and think “Muslim”, regardless of the person’s actual religion. A Muslim and ex-Muslim from the same ethnic background will look the same. There are Pakistani Christians, Afghani Christians and so on. Looking like a Muslim can get you verbally, or sometimes physically attacked by ingrates who probably need someone else to tie their shoe-laces for them. These knuckle-draggers can’t distinguish between Islamist and Islamic, so when Obama (who knows a fair bit about the hatred aimed at Muslims) refused to mention the word “Islamic” he did so because he was conscious of the fact that the terrorism was Islamist, not Islamic, and the people, by and large, don’t understand the difference. Trump must call out the White Supremacists, but he won’t because his family are involved in the movement... personally I think he’s up to his eyeballs in it. His refusal to act as Puerto Rico dies is enough evidence for that. If Mar-a-lago was suffering the same problems, you can guarantee he’d be sending federal agents, funds and relief there by the truckload. Puerto Rico however? Nah. Fuck ‘em right DT?