Political Correctness May Get Us Killed Yet

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/433227p-364959c.html
The news today is that a group of "jihadists" ( trans. Islamic terrrorists) has been discovered plotting to blow up the Holland Tunnel in NY City . They hoped to not only destroy the tunnel, but to also flood lower Manhattan by doing so. (Obviously they were long on terrorist thoughts and short on physics since water usually stays in the lowest part of an area, and water rushing in to fill a blown tunnel under a river isn't likely to do much flooding onto the land surrounding the river banks). Had this plot succeeded however, there could have been many people killed, the tunnel would have been unusable for some period of time, perhaps even causing a great disruption of business in the area. So far only one foreign national, a Lebanese, has been arrested for this plot, leaving me to wonder what the nationalites are of the remaining plotters. Could they be Americans? If so, we have additional evidence that we have a critical problem, how do we find Americans in our midst who want to kill their fellow Americans? How do we begin to identify the danger from within?
This was an interesting article for another reason, for what it didn't say. I read the article carefully and no where did it mention any more about these people than that they were "jihadists". I suppose this means that when we profile people looking for possible terrorists, we should ask them if they are "jihadi" or not. The one thing carefully omitted from this article is that this operation was mounted by radical Islamics, but you'd be hard pressed to discover that from reading it. Had this plot been carried out by any other religious group, I suspect it would have been headlined " Shintoists Set Plot in Motion", " Baptists Bring Big Bomb Plot to City" , "Jews Jump at Chance to Get Even" or "Catholic Nuns Strap on Bombs" , but instead this article makes no mention of the crucial fact of what is behind this action, and behind most others like it recently. Certainly not all Muslims are terrorists, but the majority of terrorism lately is being carried out by people who profess to be doing it in the name of Islam. Until we can clearly acknowledge that fact, and utilize that knowledge as a tool to attempt to discover who are plotting these things, we are in danger of of letting them succeed because we are too "politcally correct" to admit the obvious. If we are unable to even mention the common thread among the many terrorist actions that have been occurring, then we are not likely to discover how to find the enemy within.