Ignatius: Trump’s Dangerous Islamophobia Helps the Islamic State
David Ignatius in the Washington Post:
Trump’s response to Sunday’s morning’s terrorist attack by Omar Mateen was initially an opportunistic tweet; then a boasting statement on his website, “I said this was going to happen”; followed by a renewed call to temporarily ban Muslim immigration, capped by a sinister insinuation Monday morning that President Obama should resign after the shooting because “there’s something going on.”
The presumptive Republican nominee tried to recover from these wild, off-the-cuff comments with a scripted speech Monday afternoon warning, without evidence, that his presumptive Democratic rival Hillary Clinton “wants radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our country.” Trump professed support for law-abiding Muslim Americans but said that if they didn’t report on “bad” people within their midst, “these people have to have consequences, big consequences.”
…The strongest remaining force that propels the Islamic State is the Islamophobia of Trump and his European counterparts, argue senior intelligence strategists for the U.S.-led coalition. Inflammatory, xenophobic statements about Muslims reinforce the jihadists’ claims that they are Muslim knights fighting against an intolerant West. Trump unwittingly gives them precisely the role they dream about.
Trump doesn’t seem to understand that the real danger for the West is not the isolated acts of terror by disaffected youths, such as Mateen’s massacre in Orlando. That’s a threat to Americans, but one that can at least be mitigated some with better security and intelligence. The bigger nightmare happens if Muslims, as a whole, conclude that their community is under threat and respond as a group.
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4 responses to Ignatius: Trump’s Dangerous Islamophobia Helps the Islamic State
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Buford2k11 June 13th, 2016 at 20:28
Trump has no idea how much he and the republican party are hurting this Nation, right now…
granpa.usthai June 13th, 2016 at 20:44
as if they ‘really care’?
a hundred million trumps could not make one single part of an OBAMA
Red Mann June 14th, 2016 at 00:28
And have been hurting us for years.
granpa.usthai June 13th, 2016 at 20:41
trump, who has been referred by some in LL as a tiny handed orange ape? is the plain old flim flam con artist. Full of LYING BS, CROOKED as a hundred snake tongues, a mindless sniveling little sore footed COWARD sleazebag insecure money grubber that’s lived high on the hog his entire life on OPM that he cons in fraudulent scams such as trump u, cheap trump imports made in stalag style sweatshops in nations where he has conned their governments into allowing him to exploit their human misery and suffering, then hocking the overpriced IMPORTS off on hard working Americans. He’s gained his political following of WHITE RACIST by exploiting their fears and hatred of being equal with other human beings, and has been peaked out since winning the number of delegates required for GOP nomination. When it finally sinks in on the WHITE RACIST that he’s done nothing but con them so they become a part of OPM…
he’s on his own as far as I’m concerned.
when this shyster fraud loses the general, he loses SS Protection.