Terry S

Yes, I still stand with @SecRubio. Calling radical Islam a clear and imminent threat to the world isn’t “Islamophobia.” It’s stating an observable reality. The ideology has produced 9/11, the Pulse nightclub massacre, the San Bernardino shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Charlie Hebdo attack, Bataclan, Manchester Arena, the truck attacks across Europe, the ISIS caliphate, the October 7 massacre, the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria and elsewhere, and countless other acts of terrorism and expansionist violence. Groups and regimes that openly say they want to expand, dominate more territory, and view the West (especially the U.S.) as the greatest evil on Earth are, by definition, a threat. Rubio didn’t attack ordinary Muslims who just want to live in peace. He described the expansionist, revolutionary form of the ideology that rejects coexistence and has a documented track record of violence. Pretending that pattern doesn’t exist, or that naming it is the real problem, is the actual denial.