In the wake of the terror attacks in Belgium, Americans will again be at each other’s throats over the connection between terrorism and Islam. Blind amateurs assert there’s no linkage between the two. The ignorant indict all Muslims as terrorists.

Ineffectual government technocrats put forward flaccid lingo that dances around the actual threat with catch phrases such as “violent extremists” that could apply to everything from communist rebels in Colombia to Illinois Nazis. But we don’t have to rely on these pseudo “experts” to define the threat. Why? Muslims do it for us.

Muslim colleagues in the defense sector tell us what the score is: there are spiritual Muslims and political Muslims.

Spiritual Muslims, we’re told, rely on Islam as a moral compass throughout life. They are tolerant of different religions and other ways of life. And that goes for even the most conservative of this group. These are our allies and fellow countrymen.

Political Muslims, (aka, “Islamists” and “Islamists jihadists”) are the opposite. Their beliefs are rooted in fascist philosophers such as Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah and Sayyid Qutb. Ibn Taymiyyah asserted in the 1200-1300s that strict Shariah law must rule all governments, globally. Otherwise, God’s will could not be done.

In the 1950s-‘60s, Muslim Brotherhood sage Qutb took Taymiyyah’s philosophy to a new level. He argued in his book, “Milestones,” that Western politics and lifestyles were literally attacking Islam, and that Islam had to defend itself with political subterfuge and violence.

Muslims decisively define the nexus between political Islam and terrorism. The enemy is “political Muslims.”