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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.

Some experts in Islam who are conservative politically, like former CIA case officer Reuel Marc Gerecht, also say the new Trumpian framing is ill-thought-out even if Obama may be somewhat to blame by inviting a right-wing backlash to his refusal to talk about the sources of Islamist extremism at all, for fear of stigmatizing or offending Muslims. 'The Obama administration needlessly got itself into trouble by avoiding an adult conversation about the problems in the Muslim world. Muslims aren't children. They don't need Western affirmative action programs,' emails Gerecht. 'However, I do have a really big problem when certain individuals attempt to paint Islam, in all its 1400-plus years of glorious complexity, as a deranged civilization and faith, whose denizens and practitioners are somehow uniquely capable of violence because they are hard-wired to do so, via the Koran, the holy law, and whatever else the anti-Islam crowd thinks makes Muslims tick. This is just historically atrocious. It is often obscene.'

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.

Still, some national-security and law-enforcement experts are aghast at any loose language that lumps all Muslims together, saying all that the apocalyptic rhetoric will do is ensure that many more of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims either support the terrorist or stand aside in resentment while the terrorist, acting in their name, do their worst. 'I'm sure Flynn's outspoken anti-Muslim bias will sour our already tarnished image abroad, especially in the Middle East and Asia, and make it difficult to win or retain reliable allies in any future conflicts,' says former FBI undercover agent Michael German, author of Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent and the co-writer of a new movie starring Daniel Radcliffe about white supremacist groups. 'It certainly makes al Qaeda and ISIS propagandist' jobs easier, as well.'

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