The extremist group says we’re waging a war against harmless Muslims. The Republican presidential candidates seem determined to send that message too
The distended Republican presidential field’s response to the terror attacks in Paris is a conglomeration of policy proposals that discover something like this: a ground invasion of Syria and Iraq that will explicitly be less careful approximately killing civilians,combined with a policy of relief for refugees only if they’re Christians.
One can almost see the Islamic State’s top ideologues and propagandists celebrating. And why not? Muslims the world over, which Isis views (wrongly) as a sea of potential recruits, and could be forgiven for viewing the Republican rhetoric as a declaration of holy war against their co-religionists.
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Source: theguardian.com