On page 261 of his book “The Audacity of Hope” our elected President provides us with a precise answer to these questions: “I will stand with them [the Muslims] should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Unfortunately our very own President Bush set the wrong example in that line of thought..., by supporting their entry into the military instead of booting them all out like he should. And he continually said, in public (virtually all the time) that Islam was a “religion of peace” and that Muslims and Christians worship the same God (a totally ridiculous idea for anyone who really knows...).
What we see is that if the Republicans can’t “get it right” — I don’t know how anyone can expect a Democrat to get it right... LOL...
As for myself, I’ve never departed from what I know about Islam from the beginning — even as far back as 1998 and in regards to what Stephen Emerson let the public know about them (and the danger they represented).
Of course, we knew about that danger of the Muslims as far back as 30-plus years, too. President Reagan was “well-informed” about that (and those Marines killed in their barracks in Lebanon).