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What Trump\u2019s Critics Still Don\u2019t Understand About Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We are assured that it\u2019s not the group that calls itself an Islamic State because our political leaders and our media have told us so. It\u2019s the same with Boko Haram. They regularly slaughter Christians, women and children included. Spokesmen for Boko Haram say that they represent Islamic teaching, but no: our leaders have assured us that that is not the case. \u201cNo religion,\u201d said Obama, \u201ccondones the killing of innocents.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Has the former president contemplated the glorious history of Islam and the glittering deeds of Mohammed? We have it on the highest\u2014and for Muslims, the only\u2014authority that the Prophet regularly slaughtered innocents. Consider, to take just one example,<\/span>the siege of Medina in the year 627<\/a>, then home to a Jewish tribe. After a couple of weeks, the inhabitants surrendered unconditionally. Mohammad then had the 600-800 men butchered and sold the women and children into slavery.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not at war with Islam,\u201d our leaders tell us. \u201cWe are at war with people who have perverted Islam.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The impolitic question is, where are all those unperverted Muslims? In the common rooms of American universities? Maybe. In our cities and suburbs? Perhaps. But I think we can agree that it is not (to make an arbitrary and woefully incomplete list) the people behind such actions as<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n