What Do All These Countries Have in Common?

What do all these countries have in common?

United States.  India.  Spain.  United Kingdom.  Nigeria.  France.  Egypt.  Netherlands.  Afghanistan.  Saudi Arabia.  Phillipines.  Iraq.  Russia.  Israel.  Italy.  Bali.  Tanzania.  Jordan. 

These nations are all different in language, culture, forms of government, religious tolerance or lack thereof, isolationism or engagement, geography, standard of living and per capita income.

Yet each of these nations has been a victim of Muslim terrorism within recent memory. 

The excuses for terrorism have varied from one nation to the next and, from one month and year to the next, but the violence continues.

It is dangerously myopic for anyone to spend more than five minutes analyzing the excuses offered to justify terrorism in any of these nations.

The excuse du jour in France is that "youths" are "disaffected" by poverty and discrimination, and thus must (of course!) set fire to 4,700 cars (and counting) and deliberately injure police and rescue workers who try to intervene.

Apparently torching cars of innocent citizens is the first task in the job search manual for these long-term unemployed Muslims. 

It may seem harmless for apologists to play the part of Mr. Magoo, wandering blindly through a cartoon world in which all violence in the world must surely be justified by local conditions.  Yet such blindness is not innocent.  It devalues the victims of this terrorism -- innocent men, women and children.  Such deliberate blindness is cruel, worse than hearing your neighbor beating his dog to death and doing nothing to stop it.  It is like cursing the dying dog for good measure. 

There is a time when all nations must awaken, recognize evil for what it is, and fight it.