Not all Muslims are Terrorists!

[Fidel_Castronaut]

The question (if I may interject) is, does 'Islam' as a religion and/or as a sociological-political force exacerbate or constrain extremism, or indeed have no effect?

There are probably at least 3 questions involved there we need to deconstruct/

1. What is 'Islam'? A religion? A structure for a government and/or state? Something far wider such as the caliphate pseudo-nation of old?
2. What do we class as extremism and why? Or indeed terrorism?
3. How do our conclusions in 1. Inform our conclusions in 2 (if any)?

I don't think introducing race into this as a topic is going to achieve anything unless we can pinpoint a good definition in which the glove fits.