Reply #8: Good question.

[Goldstein1984]

I think that if the shooter at the Holocaust Museum had been a Muslim, there would be much less debate.

In my opinion, terrorism is a crime, so "terrorists" are just criminals. We tried the Oklahoma City bomber as a criminal. We tried the terrorists who first tried to blow up the World Trade Center as criminals.

I have trouble not putting the label, "terrorist" in quotation marks routinely these days. Like democracy, the word has been devalued by eight years of indiscriminate use and misuse.