Harpsman
Light one for Me
Yes, Islam the religion and terrorism based on the misinterpretation of Islam are two separate things. When abortions clinics were bombed in the United States in the name of Jesus Christ and when providers like Dr. George Tiller are shot in cold blood in a church by a fanatic, you don't blame all of Christianity. When the IRA engaged in a bloody and violent war with Britain and got arms from Libya, Catholics didn't have to apologize for them. There are religious wars being fought in other parts of the world. Christian militias in the Central African Republic have reportedly eaten their opposition <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/world/africa/un-central-african-republic.html>. Buddhist monks organizing anti-*Muslim massacres in Myanmar. There's plenty of barbarism to go around.
The people who carried out the attack in Paris -- as well as all the other terror attacks -- are using religion to strike out at the West and its institutions. These people are barbarians -- misogynists, anti-science, anti-education. Millions of Muslims who are not like them are appalled by this act. I'm just not sure which "organizations" you believe must speak out.
I'm a New York resident and have seen what can happen when you generalize about a religion. Everyone probably knows about the opposition to the construction of an interfaith community center near Ground Zero that would have included prayer space for Muslims. Bigots mislabeled it, calling it a "Mosque." It was blatant discrimination, totally ignoring the fact that scores of Muslim workers were killed in the Towers and that the attack was primarily political. Would we have balked at a Catholic Church being erected on that site had the IRA that attack. Not on your life.
This has nothing to do with "political correctness." Just common sense.
Do you know a bit about Irish history then?