I have already made it clear that IMHO equating Islamists with all Muslims (or vice versa) is a matter of bigotry - usually based on fear of all other religions than one's own, or, sometimes, a religion held predominantly by persons of a different skin colour from one's own.

For the purposes of this thread, its intitulation by reference to "Islamic Radicalism" rather than "Islamist radicalism" seems to carry such a smear, possibly intentionally. So do many comments on this thread from a particular coterie.

To my mind, it is proper to distinguish Islamism from Islam, the former being an extremist set of beliefs that use "jihad" in an old fashioned sense, while the mainstream ( I might accept "modern reformist" rather than "mainstream" view of the latter is that "jihad" properly refers to the internal struggle to improve oneself.

I therefore cannot follow Mither's view above that reference to Islamist atrocity or unacceptable belief is a smear on all Muslims.

Care to expand, Mither?