Islam in America > Is Trumps Special Advisor off-track in his assessment of radical Islam?

 

Richard Grenell on jihadis: ‘They are Radicals. The Radicals must be defeated. Muslims call them Radicals, too.’

Jan 5, 2025 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Grenell was responding to Florida state Senator Randy Fine, who wrote: “Muslim terror has attacked the United States — again. The blood is on the hands of those who refuse to acknowledge the worldwide #MuslimProblem. It is high time to deal with this fundamentally broken and dangerous culture.” 

Can Richard Grenell, whom Trump has designated to be his Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, explain how Islamic jihad terrorists are “radical” in terms of mainstream Islamic teaching? Can he explain one tenet of Islam that they ignore, misinterpret or misapply? Can he really defend the proposition that opposing Islamic jihad terrorism violates the religious freedom stipulation of the First Amendment?

Unfortunately, Grenell will ignore all these questions, and no one will press him to answer them.

If you have read my thoughts on 'radicalization', you may come to the conclusion, as I did, that any Muslim can be radicalized in a matter of hours. Any Muslim is susceptible, the more devout, the more susceptible.

There may not be many radicalized Muslims in the USA right now, but there are far more in Europe, and many, many more in Africa and Asia. It is arguable that most Muslims in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and a great swath of the Sahel in Africa are radicalized. 

It is also arguable that the higher the concentration of Muslims in one place, the higher the percentage of radicals.

It seems obvious that Muslims will normally evolve toward radicalization especially where there is resistance to Islam. Sin is progressive, and so is Islam. 

Radicals can never be eliminated! Radicals are the manifestation of the spirit of Islam.

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