WITH ROBERT SPENCER
HIS “UTTER HATE TOWARDS MUSLIMS WILL MAKE OUR JOB MUCH EASIER”
ROBERT SPENCER, DIRECTOR OF JIHAD WATCH — The not-so-hidden subtext of this Reuters piece is that Trump’s policies regarding Muslims will only make the global jihad worse, by providing fodder to the jihadis that they can use to recruit Muslims who might otherwise have been peaceful.
A moment’s thought shows why that is absurd. What exactly constitutes Trump’s alleged “utter hate toward Muslims”? That he has proposed a temporary ban on immigration from countries with a high incidence of jihad terror activity. (The business about registering Muslims is a false and absurd claim; it was never part of Trump’s program, despite being relentlessly trumpeted by the establishment propaganda organs.) This ban wasn’t proposed out of hatred for Muslims, but out of the manifest impossibility of distinguishing jihadis from peaceful Muslims. So Abu Omar Khorasani is essentially saying that because Trump is fighting back against the global jihad, the Islamic State will be able to get more recruits.
If Hillary Clinton had been elected and had continued the Obama administration’s policies of denial and willful ignorance toward the jihad threat, and had also facilitated a massive new influx of Muslim migrants, the jihadis would not have been pacified. They would have been bolder than ever. The establishment media’s claim that Trump is enflaming the jihadis also ignores the fact that the jihad imperative is not based on how good the Infidels are to the Muslims. The Qur’an commands Muslims to wage war against and subjugate Infidels; it makes no exceptions for those who do not fight back, or who do not fight back effectively, or who watch their words so as to avoid offending them...
A moment’s thought shows why that is absurd. What exactly constitutes Trump’s alleged “utter hate toward Muslims”? That he has proposed a temporary ban on immigration from countries with a high incidence of jihad terror activity. (The business about registering Muslims is a false and absurd claim; it was never part of Trump’s program, despite being relentlessly trumpeted by the establishment propaganda organs.) This ban wasn’t proposed out of hatred for Muslims, but out of the manifest impossibility of distinguishing jihadis from peaceful Muslims. So Abu Omar Khorasani is essentially saying that because Trump is fighting back against the global jihad, the Islamic State will be able to get more recruits.
If Hillary Clinton had been elected and had continued the Obama administration’s policies of denial and willful ignorance toward the jihad threat, and had also facilitated a massive new influx of Muslim migrants, the jihadis would not have been pacified. They would have been bolder than ever. The establishment media’s claim that Trump is enflaming the jihadis also ignores the fact that the jihad imperative is not based on how good the Infidels are to the Muslims. The Qur’an commands Muslims to wage war against and subjugate Infidels; it makes no exceptions for those who do not fight back, or who do not fight back effectively, or who watch their words so as to avoid offending them...
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ROBERT SPENCER is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of twelve books, including two New York Times bestsellers. Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community. » Read full bioCONNECT WITH ROBERT SPENCER
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