evil^milk
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No, it is most certainly yes.
You wouldn't disagree with the statement: People are asleep, would you?
No, you don't read it as, all people are asleep. Just there are an amount of people who are.
Muslims are terrorists. Because there is an amount of muslims, plural, who are.
You have to consider the context of the actual message.
Given the world situation at this moment, their historical background, and the ongoing war, some Muslims can be considered terrorists. The thing is that, unfortunately, Muslims are much more severely observed than other groups of people, due to the context.
You don't go around your daily business hearing, day-to-day, shit like "Old people are senile." "Skaters are emos." "Christians are conformists."
True, some of them are. But you can't link an entire group with a label just because some of them are. It's like saying Islamofascism instead of Islam.
To say "Muslims are terrorists" implies that ALL muslims - and by muslims we understand that we're referring to one of the biggest religious organizations of the world - are terrorists.
People are asleep is not a valid comparison. Who do people consider "people"? (Let's say by people we refer to the entire human race.) Some people, OK. Muslims is a much more restrictive and delineating term, which strictly specifies a group of people, which, given the context, is even more specific.