Why so hard to tell the truth about Orlando?

"Islam has a terrorism problem."

Why is that sentence so hard to say?

It's an obvious and indisputable fact. And yet in the aftermath of yet another Islam-inspired terror attack — the worst mass-casualty shooting in U.S. history — politicians and the press twist themselves into rhetorical pretzels to avoid even suggesting it.

President Obama left out the words "Islam" and "Muslim" entirely from his remarks to the nation after the Islamic State-inspired attack on a gay nightclub. This is akin to a speech following a Ku Klux Klan attack on a black church that fails to mention race.

To say such a thing just makes you look stupid. Or in the case of a smart guy like President Obama, it makes you look like someone who's pretending to be stupid. Which he seems to be doing.