T. Belman. Trump must be credited with moving mountains. What he accomplished with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states is unprecedented. They are actually making moves to cut down on terror funding. Also they will begin to normalize with Israel. Trump has made a point of calling for a war against the terrorists and their ideology. He even went so far as to actually call the terrorists “radical Islamic terrorists.” But what he has not done is identify what the ideology is. It is Jihad in pursuit of Islamic supremacy. If he named it, he would have to wage war against it and that would put him at war with Islam. That he is not prepared to do. It is one thing to get the Arab countries to stop supporting terror, it is another thing to get them to disown Jihad and supremacy.
He has yet to identify the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization even though Egypt and Saudi Arabia have done so. And he has not outlawed the preaching or teaching of Wahhabism around the world including in the Saudi financed mosques in the US. I guess its a matter of first things first. I think his failure to move the embassy was another such casualty.
West are inspired by an Islamist ideology, Western leaders are loathe to acknowledge that fact openly.
BY VIVIAN BERCOVICI,JPOST
Enough is enough.”
British Prime Minister Teresa May’s battle cry to get tougher on terrorism in the UK in the wake of the recent London attacks was less than stirring, but in this topsy turvy world of ours, her comment was singular for, well, saying something more than nothing.
During the past few years, as terrorist attacks on civilians in Europe and elsewhere have become [dare I say] common, we have grown accustomed as well to the formulaic, flaccid responses of political leaders.
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