explain to me exactly how saying the words Islamic extremist really makes a difference
In the same way the abortion bombers were labeled
Anti-abortion extremists, christian religious fundamentalist, single issue terrorism or "subrevolutionary" terrorism....back in the eighties and nineties with the "army of god" and shitheads like that...which I just realized you may be too young to remember.
Are labels important in the "it all depends on what your definition of "is" is" era of political correctness taken to perplexing levels of mind boggling college campus safe space stupidity?...
no.
A rose by any other name would smell just as rosey and calling it workplace violence or an example of gun control ineffectiveness or a display of radical islamofacist extreme cheese doritos has never brought a single dead person back from the grave.
we like to think that we are important enough to bestow a name onto things and make then so... but nobody else in our galaxy gives a flying ***.