Olivier Roy has followed this Islamic radicalism in Europe for several decades. It is interesting that one of the great advances in democracy was the separation of church and state and the freedom of man, or the US bill of rights in the late 18th century. One tension is that organizations with an illegal purpose do not get to enjoy the same protections as other organizations. ISIS is essentially a pirate organization embedded almost cellularly in a large religion. Trump’s idea of responding against the entire religion is absurd, yet religion shouldn’t run cover for illegal organizations (and yes, all religions do it, and you could make the case that all religions are scams, but. for practical reasons, modern religion is regularized, subject to some tax liability and at least provides some warranty that they won’t engage in piracy or overt mafia-type activities). Is this a valid distinction, or am I just being naive here?
Seriously, this is Islamic Terrorism. Call it that TPM…the President of France has. This will be us in ten years if we don’t get our immigration and border security policy squared away.