What Obama understands and Trump doesn’t about ISIS

He went on to say that the coconuts need to understand that they’re not welcome in the West. By the coconuts he’s using essentially a popular offensive term that ISIS followers use for western Muslims, essentially the idea being that they’re brown on the outside but they’re white on the inside. The video shows tank after tank, artillery piece after artillery piece, and Toyota truck after Toyota truck rolling triumphantly by, all in an effort to recruit radical Islamic youth to the caliphate’s cause.

In 2011 survey, Pew found roughly half of Muslim Americans say their own religious leaders have not done enough to speak out against Islamic extremists.

Because said task is impossible, Obama’s speech was bound to leave folks unsatisfied. He announced no significant shift in strategy and offered no new policy prescriptions for defeating IS, underscoring both his confidence in his current approach and the lack of easy options for countering the extremist group.

It’s difficult to come by hard numbers because the U.S. Census doesn’t collect religious data.

While I respect you for attaining your leading position in the Republican Party’s run for President, as such a leader, I urge you to learn about and get to know the minorities and immigrants who call the United States home. As a matter of fact, the Conquistadors, the Inquisition, and the Crusades, were all done in the name of God, the Christian God, to be exact, and looking back, I’m sure we can agree that the groups who propagated those bad acts were not representative of the whole of that religion either. He’s made televised statements from the Oval Office just twice, the last in 2010 when he announced the end of combat missions in Iraq. Perhaps the GOP will advocate surveillance of Christians as some of the presidential candidates have called for surveillance of Muslims.

Islam’s spectacular birthrates, the relative youth of Muslims and the increase in Muslim immigration into the United States combine to account for its accelerated growth rate in the U.S.

Indeed, the truth about Muslims in America is perhaps surprising – but not in the way Trump and his supporters might think.

Walking that fine line has prompted some to question the rhetoric and the strategic focus of the administration, as Mr. Obama and his officials have linking Islam to extremism. Republicans are more anxious about the former, and Democrats the latter. Here’s a roundup of the military capabilities of the 10 countries that joined the United States in the Jeddah Declaration. However, the group has set its sights elsewhere in the world, launching attacks in Lebanon and Turkey and downing a Russian Federation airliner over Egypt. They include the slaughter of more than 130 people in Paris and the massacre of 14 people here in the United States.

Last week, the terror threat drew even closer for Americans when a couple – a 29-year-old woman originally from Pakistan and her 28-year-old American-born husband – launched an attack on a holiday luncheon in San Bernardino.

And we can’t forget about the “moderate” Syrian opposition that the USA and its allies have been training and arming since 2013.

Authorities say they believe the guns used by the attackers were legally obtained. I would welcome the opportunity to sit down with you, as one American Muslim, to talk with you further about the contributions that American Muslims can make to improving our national security and helping this nation to be the best it can be.