Michael HirshThinkers

Donald Trump is a proponent of the same dangerous 'clash of civilizations' narrative as al qaeda and ISIS which, insofar as it views the world in the binary terms, thus playing right into isis's hands by convincing skeptical muslims that the west is waging a war against islam.

Donald Trump is actually appealing to fundamentalist muslims because his utter hate towards muslims makes their job much easier to recruit thousands.

The Obama administration is, on the subject of Islam, in part to blame for the right's hard-line rhetoric about 'radical islam' insofar as his refusal to talk about the sources of islamist extremism at all, for fear of stigmatizing or offending muslims, invited a backlash.

The Trump administration is, on the subject of Islam, walking a fine line by painting its rich and complex history as a deranged civilization and faith uniquely capable of violence because of their holy book.

The Trump administration is sure to sour our already tarnished image abroad with its outspoken anti-muslim bias, especially in the middle east and asia, and make it difficult to win or retain reliable allies in any future conflicts.

White nationalism is such that an end to the war on terror is arguably not desired as the narrative of a global islamic threat against 'western' civilization makes for a convenient bugaboo and supplies a ready-made justification for closed borders and trump's neo-isolationist concept of 'America first'.