Here Are 9 Things Trump's National Security Advisor Pick Actually Thinks About Islam
Enter the world of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s book, “The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies.”
Throughout his book, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, Michael Flynn, the retired lieutenant general President-elect Donald Trump has picked as national security adviser, proves to be more than a little intense.
Since Trump tapped him a few weeks ago, the story has been less about Flynn's career as an intelligence official and more about the issues Flynn will bring to the White House. He's been called out for possibly breaking lobbying rules and both his and his son's spreading conspiracy theories.
While the book's sections on war are worth reading given his pending role in the Trump administration, it's the sections on the fight against "Radical Islam" where Flynn's views are most extreme and set Islam as a whole as separate from the America that he is trying to protect. Here's a quick round-up:
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He thinks that "Radical Islamists" — a term he uses to include everything from the Iranian government to ISIS — are working with anti-US regimes around the world...including Cuba.
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He thinks saying "Radical Islamists" will fix everything.
The term "Islamist" by itself isn't tied to terrorism. It just refers to someone who believes that Islam should be taken into account or incorporated in a country's government, like the ruling party in Turkey.
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He is really, really sure of that point.
Though it happened after Flynn's book was published, during the presidential campaign Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton used the phrase "radical Islam" following the Pulse nightclub shooting, so that happened. And President Obama in September said that he doesn't use the term "Islamic terrorism" because he doesn't want to associate the religion with "murderers."
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