The "not all Muslims are terrorists" fallacy

[Catholic_Lady]

There maybe a logical fallacy for this all ready, but here is my idea for this

This a logical fallacy commonly made when arguing against the actions of people that follow particular ideology where instead responding appropriately to the argument at hand, you make an erroneous assertion that the argument only applies to a small subset of people. For example

Me: islam is responsible for religious violence per capita then any other religion.
You: but not all Muslims are terrorists!.

I think the reason why people insist on emphasizing that "not all Muslims are terrorists" is to prevent spreading fear/hate of Muslim people in general. Yes, it is a fallacy, but I understand why people do it. Just look at what we did to the Japanese living in the US during WWII. We did that to them out of fear of Japanese people in general because of the war. We don't want to repeat the same mistake again by starting to get too paranoid about Islam and Muslim people living in the US.