Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
Islam is a peaceful religion.
The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
We have a toxic ideology, hopefully very small, within Islam; certainly most people, most Muslims, don't agree with this violent, jihadist approach.
The war against terrorism is terrorism.
We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.