The Geography of Horror

The Geography of Horror - The American Interest:
"There are two ways of looking at the record of these atrocities.
One is to see them as intrinsic to Islam, the other as an aberration of genuine Islam.
The first view is rarely proposed publically in the United States, though it may be quietly held by some Americans less affected by the prevailing culture of tolerance.
It is more openly stated in Europe, for example by the Dutch populist Geert Wilders, who admitted that he hated Islam as an enemy of freedom (among other things he proposed that the Quran, like Hitler’s Mein Kampf, should be banned in the Netherlands). 
It is also interesting to compare the different attitudes to Islamist terrorism by the successive administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Immediately after the attacks of September 2001 President Bush made a speech in which he declared that we are not at war with Islam but with terrorism.
(He also said that “Islam means peace”, which it does not. 
A linguistically challenged White House speech writer must have confused two Arabic words—salaam/”peace”, a common form of salutation among Muslims, and aslama/”submission”, the root of the religion’s name.
Not that this matters; Bush meant well.)
 The “war against terror” unleashed by the Bush administration has not gone well, to put it mildly. "