I agree with President Bush, I agree with President Obama and with all the leaders of the civilized world that we are not at war with Islam. But within Islam is a radical movement that has declared war on us.
Hirsi Ali discusses the distinction between Islam as a religion and the radical elements that pose a threat.
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We have completely failed to define the enemy, and because we have failed to define the enemy, we are flying blind.
If our posture on September 11, 2001, was we are going to take the wall to them and we are going to stop this evil, in 2017 we can barely say that we have stopped that.
There is no sense of urgency. There is a great deal of a sense of urgency, and between 2001 and today we have failed, and we have failed miserably, and it is time to correct our course.
The ideology of Islamism or political Islam contradicts the constitutional values of this country.