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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.

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.'

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