DANIEL PIPES
Identifying Islamists through Interrogations
January 13, 2016

When Donald Trump in December called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” I replied that changing just one word – “Islamists” instead of “Muslims” – would transform his outrageous and dead-end effusion into a politically feasible and operationally viable policy idea…By Islamists (as opposed to moderates), I mean those approximately 10-15 percent of Muslims who seek to apply Islamic law (the Shari’a) in its entirety. Islamists, not all Muslims, are the modern barbarians; they, not all Muslims, must urgently be excluded from the United States and other Western countries. READ MORE