CarolC - answer to your last question first - no, of course not; but do at least be aware of their existence as a potential source of trouble.

I have not put a single 'word into your mouth'; every interpretation I have put on what you have said seems to me a reasonable one derived precisely from your own statements — I leave it to others to judge between us as to whether or not this is so.

Ah ha — I have been waiting agog to see how long it would take you to fling the word 'racist' as your get-out when you run out of rational arguments.

I am not racist as regards Muslims: but I am scared of 'Islamists', who are no more representative of all Muslims than the Christian·terrorists you refer to in your last paragraph are representative of all Christians. You know right well that it was only this minute but vocal, active and dangerous minority I was referring to, & not to Islam in general; so you would do well to avoid accusations of "racism", if you don't want to incur accusations of disingenuous, dishonest, pusillanimous, bad-faith defamation right back — & you know it's so, whatever you may pretend.