It’s become fashionable to blame suicide bombing on everything but religion. Journalists embraced University of Chicago professor Robert Pape’s “it’s all about occupation” thesis despite his tenuous logic and, as Martin Kramer demonstrated, his manipulation of definitions and data. The national security stakes are too high to let politically correct taboo derail discussion.

Now, David Bukay demolishes the “Islam has nothing to do with it” argument in a new article .