By Mark Christian, M.D.

CNN’s “Silver Fox,” Anderson Cooper, went fishing with his best “gotcha” lure in his recent interview with Donald Trump, only to have his lure bitten off the line and tossed back on shore without bait, or fish.

“I think Islam hates us,” was Trump’s response to Cooper’s rather clumsy attempt to get “The Donald” to lump all Muslims together into some jingoistic, bigoted meatloaf on which the media and the DNC could feast.

Trump ignored the bait and countered by suggesting the media do their job (gasp!) and determine the difference between radical and moderate Islam for themselves, rather than trying to bait candidates based on preconceived notions of bigotry.

The failure of his lure notwithstanding, Cooper nonetheless characterized Trump’s answer as inadequately worshipful toward the altar of “non-Islamic Islamic terrorism,” by describing Trump’s answer as “drawing little distinction between the religion and radical Islamic terrorism.”

In fact, Trump’s answer is accurate in general terms – the 30,000-foot view, if you will – but would do well with an explanation as to why.

The concept of “radical Islam” as our enemy is an egregious misnomer. A far more appropriate (and accurate) appellation would be “devout Islamist,” which is more reflective of the motivations of those who seek to place the entire earth under the heel of Shariah.

Jihad is waged for the purpose of creating Allah’s kingdom on earth, which requires the submission of the earth and all in it to Islam. In and of itself, this is not a problem to society at large, until you add in the religious duty of all Muslims to exercise any and all means to achieve this goal – including extreme violence against innocents.

This is the legacy of Muhammad – the command to subjugate all to Islam by any means necessary. Given the fact that reform in Islam is forbidden under threat of death for apostasy, the likelihood that Islam will abandon its core mission just because the infidels aren’t comfortable with it is nil. Islam as a religion must be separated from Islam as an ideology of political governance.

The fact stares us in the face, bold and unabashed: There is no such thing as a “casual Islamic terrorist.” Those who commit these atrocities are devout Muslims, not casual adherents. They don’t become “radicalized” and then pick up a knife and march off to find the nearest head that needs separating from its body; the terrorist grows more devout, gains more and deeper understanding of Islam, Muhammad’s commands and his role in bringing Allah’s kingdom closer to reality.

Much is made of the idea that Islamic terrorism is driven not by Islam, but by the more mundane forces of economic deprivation, lack of opportunity and the suffering of repeated exploitation by the colonialist Western powers. When one is obsessed with the have/have not paradigm (as is the international left) then one sees everything through “red” glasses. They cannot conceive of a level of devotion to a “religion” – you know, that big invisible daddy in the sky! – that would drive people to such acts. Surely it must be something else, like oppression, or racism, or exploitation. You know, the things that drive them to lose control and take up arms.

The confirmation bias is overwhelming and has not gone unnoticed by Islamic supremacists. The Muslim Brotherhood has relied upon this fundamental misunderstanding of motive to conceal their true aim of domination.

There was a great deal of laughter when former State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, famously said, “We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs, whether …”

At this point the interviewer, Chris Matthews interrupted, saving Ms. Harf from further humiliation by her own words.

The reality is, as hilarious as her statement seemed at the time, it squares completely with the policy initiatives and “Marxist-lens” worldview that animates the left. In other words, not only was she entirely serious, she was also outlining the foreign policy of the Obama administration regarding those who will stop at nothing to fulfill Allah’s wish.

It is this massive and dangerous disconnect that has led to the policy debacles of this administration (and the one before it!) regarding Islam, and will break the knees of the next administration if not repudiated and replaced with stark reality.

Donald Trump is right to say “Islam hates us,” but he would do all of us a great service if he would go one step further and do what Anderson Cooper and his fellows will not –and tell the American people why Islam hates us.

Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2016/03/trumps-right-about-islam-but-needs-to-add-this/

One Response

  1. Perhaps Donald Trump doesn’t know why Islam hates us – he says we ‘need to find out what’s going on…’ It appears that he needs instruction and mentoring to find out the whole truth.

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