U.S. Relations with the Islamic World

I talk to folk [Muslim Americans] all over the country and I think there is a sense of disappointment. They don’t want to hear the word ‘tolerance’; they want to hear the word ‘respect’. They want to be treated with the same dignity and respect as every other American. They are asking, ‘Why isn’t there more outrage when Donald Trump is attacking a religious community? What would happen if these things were being said about another religious community, any religious community?’ There would be outrage on both sides of the aisle. There is concern about how this trickles down to kids at school being bullied.

There's no question that the Quran and other scriptures endorse violence in the service of religion. But they tend to try and put restrictions on it. The Islamic State tries to find way around those restrictions because they are inconvenient for the type of insurgency it's trying to wage.