Terrorism and liberals

A conversation with a liberal friend about the Portland attempted bombing by the Somali Muslim revealed the problem our society faces dealing with terrorism and Muslims.  My liberal friends reaction was this event was nothing more than another act by a random terrorist, a Muslim in this case, just as likely could be a Christian, Jew or someone of no faith.  As usual my liberal friend trotted out the example of Timothy McVey, which is the default response in this discussion of terrorism.  One of my friends at Powerline does an excellent job here of deconstructing the obvious flaws in this argument and example.  One can see this "terrorists come from all religions and walks of life" argument at work after every violent act of a Muslim dating back to George W. Bush's reaction to 9/11 when he he called Islam a religion of peace.  It is most definitely not a religion of peace and as the Powerline post points out, until the Muslims expunge this cancer of violent jihadism from their religion, they are going to be held in deep and justified suspicion by anyone not infected with political correctness.