Soft-Peddling Bias

So on Thursday (02/05/09) I'm rolling down the highway in the Garbage State, immersing myself in the extraterrestrial information stream-of-consciousness when I run into Brother Ron's show on POTUS. I admit to being slightly curious about his choice of topics to discuss that day, given that the focus of everyone else in the country over the drinking age was the economy and the disposition of the bill currently in the Senate. So I listened on for a bit, Ron specifically talking about the need to properly identify a problem before you can hope to resolve it. I absolutely agree with that point.
What prompted me to pick up my phone and hit speed dial was the illustrative content of his cogitation; referring to the so-called "war on Terror" (I don't recall if he used that phrase) and saying that we specifically need to identify "the enemy" as "Islamic Medieval Totalitarians." Now, the point is taken but I couldn't resist wondering why it was necessary to specifically identify these people by a religious label and I could only come to a single conclusion. I think Brother Ron isn't satisfied with simply identifying these people as criminals only, citing (correctly) that a large part of their self-identity stems from their religious background. He shies at the fence though, not willing to admit that a large part of that background is universal to the other two Western religious traditions and all such superstitions in general. He'll acknowledge them as "Islamic" but not "Religious".
So, I say lets carry the argument to its actual, logical conclusion; these are Religious Medieval Totalitarians. All religions, all superstitions, not merely Islam, have tenets that are used to justify horrific and anti-human behavior.
If a person is made uncomfortable with this notion, then they are well advised to leave religion out of the equation and focus on dealing with these persons and groups as civil criminals. Comparisons may be odious but that makes them no less accurate.