Again... this really looks like a secularist Trump who distinguishes between “ordinary Islam” and “Islamic terrorism.” If asked if he loves the second, the answer would of course be “HELL no.”
Looking deeper at the situation, these boundaries are not as clear. It’s easy to push an “ordinary Muslim” over that edge. But if you want someone to deal with this phenomenon, it will have to be someone who reports to Trump. One way to deal with it is like Singapore dealt with it, which was to be harsh and strict. There is not much room for Islam to grow into serious mischief there. However most Americans would not tolerate a regime like this.
The best answer on earth is probably going to be evangelists. If Trump is willing to stand back while evangelists in America press for Muslims in America to become believing Christians, that is perhaps the best that can be hoped.
I am persuaded that there is no such “thing” as “ordinary Islam.”
Sir Winston Churchill captured the essence of the Islamic culture and the nature of the individual Moslem’s character in 1899:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
“The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
“A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.
“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
“It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
Wir Winston was right in 1899 and his words are germaine and, perhaps, even more pertinent today.
We MUST be made aware of the dangers of minimalizing the intenntions of the adherents to Islam. We do so at our own peril, as Sir Winston warns us in his last paragraph.
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