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In the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, they've ramped up their usual fearmongering about Muslims and Islam, a religion practiced by 1.6 billion people with a rich 1,500 year history of scholarship, art, and culture.
"Moderate" Muslims, Republican say, just aren't doing enough to fight radical groups like Daesh. This argument is so flat-out wrong and inaccurate it wouldn't be worth talking about if it weren't echoed everyday on cable news by right-wing stooge after right-wing stooge.
The fact is that every day Muslims ARE fighting Daesh.
They're fighting Daesh on the ground in Syria and Iraq, they're fighting Daesh as members of our armed forces, and they're fighting Daesh in their mosques and communities where they are doing their best to stop extremism before it starts. Everyday Muslims hate Daesh more than anyone, and that's not just because most of its victims are, you know, Muslim.
Comment: Whether the activities of Daesh have "links to Islam" or not, we should follow the breadcrumbs back to the founders, trainers and keepers of this group. The rest is blur and window dressing compared to the demon spawn itself, its hell-bent originators and their heinous agenda.