Speaking of “radical Islam” is wrong as that term implies there is some other Islam somewhere which is just fine. There is not. As Turkish president Erdogan always says, there is just Islam.
Similarly with “Islamist terrorist”. No, the correct term is “muslim”. Those two Australian girls killed at London Bridge were killed by muslims. Being muslim is what mattered. It is what made them terrorists. Being terrorists is an outcome of being muslim.
Using the word “muslim” brings it home what the problem is, whom the problem people are. Words like “radical”, “Islamic”, “Islamist” and “radicalised” suggest people on the periphery. “Muslim” places them at the centre.
