Donald Trump brought all his famed nuance to the question of whether “Islam is at war with the West” on Wednesday:
Donald Trump: I think Islam hates us. There’s something, there’s something there that’s a tremendous hatred there. There’s a tremendous hatred—we have to get to the bottom of it. There is an unbelievable hatred of us.
Hate, tremendous, tremendous hatred, unbelievable hatred. Well, that explains it. Don’t you now feel like you understand centuries of religious, political, and cultural history leading to this moment in which it’s as simple as “Islam hates us” and we know just who the “us” is and are in no doubt that “we” have never born any hatred toward Islam but are just mysteriously being hated?
The outcome of this hatred, of course, is that “we can't allow people coming into this country who have this hatred of the United States.” Simple as that! It’s not hatred on our parts or a challenge to the Constitution—it just is.
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