Carter: Muslim Terror Attacks Will Show West Islam is Great

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Literally true, just not in the way he meant it.

 Carter also said that the recent attacks in Paris should provide an opportunity for the West to discover what makes Islam “great.”
“I think this is going to give a lot of people incentive to look into Islamicism, what is it about this religion that makes it great, that makes it appeal to really billions of people and to understand that Islamic leaders condemn this kind of terrorism just like the rest of the world,” he said.

That is indeed what made Islam, great. Not faith, not ideas. Mass murder and terror. That’s how Islam expanded.

Carter is also correct that Islamic terrorism propagates the religion in the West. Plenty of Westerners are going to look around and be attracted to Islam, whether because of its violence or because of the myth that it’s peaceful and oppressed.

Islam has expanded its American footprint in large part because of Al Qaeda. But Carter’s own aid to the Islamic takeover in Iran certainly didn’t hurt matters either.

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.