by Dennis Prager - Originally Published Online: November 5, 2002 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

Whenever the question of Islam and violence - specifically terror - is raised, we are repeatedly told that "the vast majority of Muslims in the world are peaceful people" who never engage in terror. This is entirely accurate.

And entirely irrelevant.

The vast majority of Germans living in the Nazi era were also peaceful - very few ever so much as laid a hand on a Jew. So, too, the vast majority of Russians never killed anyone while 20 to 40 million of their fellow citizens were murdered by the communist regime under Stalin.