I believe that Trump made a huge mistake!
Showing ANY sympathy towards an evil murderous cult is a show stopper for me.
Islam is not a religion, and the sooner we Westerners realize that, the better off we will be.
Trump should have danced around the question.
Well, it IS a religion by any dictionary definition.
It also has a core that is more evil than that of almost any other world religion, but due to a trend of spiritualizing that away (after all, even Muslims get tired of killing wars sooner or later) this factor is less troublesome than it could be in principle.
It is, in the end, a testimony to the presence of the real God in the world, that things are not worse than they are here.
I think this is going to end up bouncing off of the Trump teflon. This is a secularist Trump trying to make nice, but even he can see large trends when they get large enough to get on the American radar screen. He’d doubtless make a distinction between “ordinary Islam” and Islamic terrorist groups, even though the boundary between them is distressingly thin.
The big news seems to be that he wants to make nice with Christian faith. If you read the bible, you can see this is actually a historical rarity.
I understand your frustration. I have it as well, but we are to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves. Because just as there are many who call themselves Christian but don’t follow Christ’s teachings, there are many Muslims in the world who don’t take literally everything their prophet spoke of either. Part of our Bible has instruction to the people of the time to slaughter, stone, condones slaves, sacrifice animals. Thank goodness we have Jesus who came and did away with all that. Pray they can find the way, truth and light as well.