Donald Trump is helping the Islamic State

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Donald Trump is helping the Islamic State

by Ishaan Tharoor at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/12/07/how-donald-trump-may-be-helping-the-islamic-state/

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Last month, my colleague Adam Taylor noted that the Islamic State actually wants you to hate refugees:


If Muslim refugees come to Europe and are welcomed, it deeply undercuts the Islamic State's legitimacy. ... What seems almost certain is that the Islamic State wants you to equate refugees with terrorists. In turn, it wants refugees to equate the West with prejudice against Muslims and foreigners.

One of the more striking calls for calm that came in the wake of the horrific night of terror in Paris was from Nicolas Henin, a French journalist who had been held captive by the Islamic State for 10 months. In an op-ed published in Britain's Guardian newspaper, he explained that the jihadists thrive off this sense of civilizational struggle with non-Muslims:


With [the Islamic State's] news and social media interest, they will be noting everything that follows their murderous assault on Paris, and my guess is that right now the chant among them will be “We are winning." They will be heartened by every sign of overreaction, of division, of fear, of racism, of xenophobia; they will be drawn to any examples of ugliness on social media.

Central to their world view is the belief that communities cannot live together with Muslims, and every day their antennae will be tuned towards finding supporting evidence. The pictures from Germany of people welcoming migrants will have been particularly troubling to them. Cohesion, tolerance – it is not what they want to see.



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