Turkey was secularized when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk established the Republic of Turkey in 1923 and Turkey has been fighting Islamists long before America knew what the word "Islamist" meant.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk dancing with one of his adopted daughter at her wedding in 1929
In 1936, Atatürk urged one of his adopted daughters, Sabiha Gökçen, to follow her passion for aviation and she went on to get her wings in the Turkish Air Force. She went on to become the world's fist female combat pilot and eventually flew 22 different types of aircraft for more than 8000 hours, 32 hours of which were active combat hours.
Atatürk was a "Muslim" man WAY ahead of his time, even by 21st Century American standards.
In the 1500's in Europe, our ancestors were warring upon each other and burning each other at the stake because some of our ancestors were Protestants and some were Catholics and some were what both Catholics and Protestants considered heretics.
Northern Ireland has been stuck in that mentality to this day while America has gotten beyond that. Today in America, our neighbor's religion of birth matters little to us as long as he is not pushing his religion agenda on us.
By lashing out at all "Muslims", be they religious fanatics like the Iranian mullahs or men like Atatürk who was as "Muslim" as Ted Kennedy is "Catholic", we too get stuck in the past along with the Islamist nutjobs.
A "Catholic" that has not set foot inside a Catholic Church in years will fight back when Catholics are attacked simply for being Catholics.
Yes, yes, I know all about the dangers of radical religious Islam. My family has a very long military tradition dating back many, many centuries and my ancestors were fighting Muslims ever since they landed in Spain in 711 A.D. and, in the 1500's during the reigns of Charles V and his son Phillip II, my ancestors were fighting both the Muslims and the Protestants ..... and, of course, the French regardless of their religion.
In the end, the Muslims were driven out of Spain, the Battle of Lepanto broke the back of Ottoman sea power in the Mediterranean but only a secular Muslim like Atatürk was able to break the back Islamic religious fanaticism in what is now Turkey.
We will never win against the Islamist religious nutjobs by waging war against all the "Muslims" in the World. There are more than one billion of them and lashing out at all one billion of them is totally counter-productive.
We will win our war against the Islamist religious nutjobs by seeking out our secularized Muslim allies, waging the war against the religious nutjobs that want to impose their religious tyranny and then celebrate the victory with our secularized Muslim allies like Atatürk liked to celebrate ... with a good stiff drink.