My jaw dropped at the columnist's thesis, which is spelled out near the end of his article: That those Muslims who embrace extremist, violent terrorism are a set of people who got that way simply as a "reaction to racism" that they faced in their earlier years growing up in the West.

Are you KIDDING ME?

Gee, let's look at a list, shall we, let's look at a list of sets of people who have faced nasty bigotry or racism in the West during the past century:
- gay people
- women
- Jewish folks
- Chinese people
- black folks
- Japanese people
- folks from India
- folks from Pakistan
- natives
- Italians
- Irish folks
- transgender people

So, Mister columnist, how many of those victim groups resorted to SLAUGHTERING PEOPLE IN FREQUENT MASS MURDER SPREES AGAINST INNOCENT STRANGERS IN MUSIC HALLS AND PASSENGER TRAINS AND MARKETPLACES AND TOURIST SITES?!?!?!?!

Sometimes all capital letters are needed to dispatch the ridiculous blindness of a columnist to the weakness of their view...