MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Trump Pushes Dark View of Islam to Center of U.S. Policy-Making
By artappraiser on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 9:19pm |By Scott Shane, Matthew Rosenberg & Eric Lipton @ New York Times, Feb. 1
A vision of Islam as an inherently hostile ideology has long flourished on the fringes of the far right. Now the president and top aides have embraced it.
...This worldview borrows from the “clash of civilizations” thesis of the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington....
....Rejected by most serious scholars of religion and shunned by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, this dark view of Islam has nonetheless flourished on the fringes of the American right since before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks....
....Among the most outspoken of those warning about Islam are Pamela Geller, of Stop Islamization of America, Robert Spencer, of Jihad Watch, and Frank Gaffney Jr., of the Center for Security Policy.
All three were hosted by Mr. Bannon on his Breitbart radio program before he became chief executive of the Trump campaign in August....
URL:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/donald-trump-islam.html?ref=world
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