"What happens at the Sehwan Sharif shrine matters, as it is an indication as to which of the two ways global Islam will go," advised Dalrymple. "Can it continue to follow the path of moderate pluralistic Islam, or — under the pressure of Saudi funding — will it opt for the more puritanical, reformed Islam of the Wahhabis and Salafis, with their innate suspicion (or even overt hostility) towards Hinduism, Christianity and Judaism?"
Sent But even this somewhat simplified framing of the divisions within Islam seems too complicated for a White House hell-bent on engaging in a clash of civilizations. As we've discussed earlier, Trump's inner circle of advisers include a coterie of ultra-nationalists who genuinely see the West locked in a holy war.from Outlook
On Tuesday, my colleague Greg Jaffe published a terrific profile of one of them: Sebastian Gorka, a Hungarian-British acolyte of White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon who made his way into the administration via the fever swamp of far-right website Breitbart. Gorka traces the problem of "radical Islam" directly to the Koran and rejects the utterances of previous presidents who asserted Islam was a "religion of peace."
"This is the famous approach that says it is all so nuanced and complicated," said Gorka to the Post. "This is what I completely jettison."
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