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Muslim ‘journalist’ in Salon mag: ‘Under Trump, it’s become acceptable to hate all Muslims’

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“I am an 84-year-old journalist who is Muslim, Arab and Black. I have lived and worked in Washington for 46 years.”

Impressive! Yet it harms Salih’s case. Could a non-Muslim journalist live and work in Mecca for 46 years? No, he couldn’t do so for 46 seconds.

And as in so very many other articles of this kind, Salih chronicles how Trump and so many other patriotic politicians are supposedly mean to Muslims, but he overstates his case. Nothing Trump has said or done, even saying “Praise be to Allah” to the leaders of the Iranian Islamic regime, means that it is “acceptable to hate all Muslims.”

Also like so very many other articles of this kind, Salih never comes close to dealing with the fact that people are concerned about Islam not out of “racism” or “bigotry” or “Islamophobia,” but because they’re concerned about jihad violence and Sharia oppression. Salih and his ilk cannot and will not grant that as a legitimate concern, because to do so would be to admit that “the religion itself is inseparable from terrorism,” which Salih explicitly denies and decries below. Yet what are we to think about all of Islam’s violent and supremacist teachings? If just one of these Islamic apologists would deal honestly with those texts and teachings, some progress might conceivably be made. But they never do so.

“I’m a Muslim who loves America. Trump and the GOP have crossed my red line: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney never went this far. Under Trump, it’s become acceptable to hate all Muslims,” by Mohammad Ali Salih, Salon, April 26, 2026:

This coming week, I am planning to return to my White House vigil. I am an 84-year-old journalist who is Muslim, Arab and Black. I have lived and worked in Washington for 46 years.

I have done this before. I began my first vigil in 2008, appearing occasionally outside the White House. (See the image above this article.) I ended it in 2016, largely because Donald Trump’s attacks on Muslims during his presidential campaign gave me reason to be afraid. Those were followed, of course, by many anti-Muslim executive orders during his first term as president, and still more during his second term.

Nearly two months ago, Trump joined with Israel in launching devastating bombing attacks on Iran, a major Muslim country. More recently, over Easter weekend, Trump finally crossed my personal red line: He attacked Islam itself.

Many Arab and Muslim rulers are clearly afraid to criticize Trump, and apparently afraid to defend their own faith.

I may be a humble, elderly journalist, but I am not afraid.

I plan to return to stand in front of the White House, alone and silent. I will raise above my head a banner that reads, “What is Islam?” and “What is Terrorism?” In smaller print, it will say: “I Will Be Here Until I Die!”

Trump’s words and actions are no surprise. Throughout his political career, he has frequently used inflammatory rhetoric toward Islam.

During his first campaign, he issued an infamous press release that remains a cornerstone of this discussion: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

In a CNN interview early in the 2016 campaign, Trump said: “I think Islam hates us. There’s something there — there’s a tremendous hatred there. We have to get to the bottom of it. There is an unbelievable hatred of us.”

Throughout his first term, he criticized his predecessors for not using the specific terminology “radical Islamic terrorism.” That language is favored by many American conservatives who argue that the religion itself is inseparable from terrorism.

I plan to return to stand before the White House, alone and silent. I will raise above my head a banner that reads, “What is Islam?” and “What is Terrorism?” In smaller print, it will say: “I Will Be Here Until I Die!”

Addressing a joint session of Congress during his first year as president, Trump declared: “We cannot let this evil continue. … We are going to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, just as we have defeated every threat we have faced in every age.”

His remarks over Easter weekend arguably went much further. He criticized those he believes do not share “Western values,” explicitly linking religious identity to civilizational conflict:

Happy Easter to all, except those who want to destroy our Country with their radical religions and ideologies. We are a Christian nation, and we will not let Islam or any other force replace our heritage. It’s a Crusade for survival!

As readers of Salon will no doubt remember, he went on to threaten Iran with both profanity and deeply offensive religious mockery: “Open the F**kin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

Muslim leaders in the U.S. were outraged, and condemned this attempt to weaponize the sacred phrase “Praise be to Allah” (Alhamdulillah, in Arabic) in a vulgar and threatening context. Many Christian leaders, to be fair, were also outraged that the president would stoop so low on the holiest day of the Christian year.

Comments

  1. Play-the-Victim. Lie and Deceive. Deny. Deny.Deny. Muslims are virtue-signaling, totalitarian Terrorists of Allah against Non-Muslims as taught in Islamic Law. After all, Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”

    Believers, Muslims, are to engage in war for Allah’s sake. As a result, Muslims receive a great reward when they engage in war for Allah against Non-Muslims, whether Muslims live or die. Allah in Qur’an 4:74 says, “So let those who purchase the world’s life for the hereafter engage in war for the sake of Allah. And whoever engages in war for the sake of Allah, whether he is killed or victorious, so we will give him a great wage.”

  2. Sal talks out of both sides of his mouth. 46 years in the USA and he is crying about how muhammadists have it so bad under Trump. TDS is real. What is the cure? When you deal with a lifelong liar, they will deny, obfuscate and cry poor me. Give me a break. Grow up sal or go back to the hole you came from

  3. “More recently, over Easter weekend, Trump finally crossed my personal red line: He attacked Islam itself.”

    No word about how your fellow Islamonazis in America and around the world have unleashed a tsunami of hatred, contempt and violence against Jews, Israel, America, Christians and Western Civilization in general? Any red lines crossed there? No? F*cking POS. Take your “personal red line” and shove it up your contemptible rear end!

    • Well said crown. Muslims should remember what goes around comes around. We infidels and kaffir are sick of your violence and whining. Go away- far away.

  4. Islamic hate has always been there, yet when non Muslims start to say Islam must leave the theme changes to Islamic victim theme.

    Islam in America must be removed starting with banning sharia law as its a foreign government operating from within. Second remove all Muslims no matter if they are Americans because they do not follow the Constitution but sharia law.

    Really do not care if a Muslim screams I am American, the Muslim must denounce Islam and sharia and well that’s not going to happen hence they leave.

    America first and foremost, sovereignty must always remain American and nothing else.

    • and stop supporting halal

      remind the managers of the stores where you shop, that you will not buy halal products blessed by muslims.

      I complained to my Costco business center and the halal meats, Canadian ducks, Australian goats and lamb carcass were all moved to separate and more remote location. They listen to customers.

  5. No, hon, it’s just that once Biden was gone, mohammedans are no longer sacrosanct and above criticism like they were from 2021-2024

    The only disturbing aspect about now is that it’s now fashionable to hate Jews and Hindus as well – and I’m talking about the Right, not the Left, who always hated both anyway

    • Also, while Mohammad Ali Salih is entitled to his opinions, he’s talking out of his hiney when he says

      Nearly two months ago, Trump joined with Israel in launching devastating bombing attacks on Iran, a major Muslim country

      Problem w/ that claim is that most Iranians no longer accept islam, nor consider themselves muslims. Also, the devastating bombing attacks have been only on 2 entities:
      ⮞ Military assets of the islamic regime as far as US military objectives are concerned
      ⮞ Political leadership of the regime as far as Israeli military objectives go: the islamic clerics, the IRGC/Basij top brass and their “police”, who are essentially regime thugs

      Given all that, the Salon jihadist should stop including Iran in his (imaginary) list of crimes that are being committed against the ummah

    • One more point: by claiming that Trump’s condemnation of “radical islamic terrorism” was an attack on islam itself, he pretty much proved what Mr Spencer has been saying all these decades: that there isn’t a difference b/w islam and “radical islamic terrorism”. When non-muslims point it out, we are “islamophobic”, but when a jihad apologist like Salih does, it isn’t?

      Also, Mr Salih, Bush & Cheney were morons, which is why they could never bring themselves to condemn islam, but instead pretended that it’s a good & peaceful religion. Even Trump has said nothing to the contrary, and anything negative he has ever said is pretty dated. As a counterpoint, his embrace of the HTS regime in Syria should prove to anyone that he’s (unfortunately) not opposed to islam

      • ࿗Infidel࿘ says,

        “One more point: by claiming that Trump’s condemnation of “radical islamic terrorism” was an attack on islam itself, he pretty much proved what Mr Spencer has been saying all these decades: that there isn’t a difference b/w islam and “radical islamic terrorism”.

        You just pointed out a brilliant connection!

  6. Yes, I hate Muslims. Do I hate Hindus? No. Do I hate Buddhists? No. Do I hate Daoists? No. Do I hate any other non-Western religion? No. Hey, Muslims, can you see the difference? None of them are trying to force me to accept their way of life or to insist that I convert. None of them are threatening to ditch our Constitution for their own laws.

    And let me also point out that in Britain, there have been a number of immigrants in recent decades, but only the Muslims have been trafficking young white girls. I have not heard this about Hindu immigrants or about Christians from Africa or about black Caribbean immigrants or about Poles or any other Eastern Europeans. It is only Muslims who think this is permissible.

    Having said this, let me say that the group I hate more than Muslims is the left and any other group that has brought Muslims here and who continue to think that they are not a problem. This especially includes feminists, who should have been protesting in the streets after the news about those trafficked girls had come out. It was a huge mistake for us to have paid any attention to what feminists were saying.

    • look up the 1952 immigration law then go to the 1965 revision.

      Democrat socialists of America look that up as well.

      Democrats have been systematically destroying our nation from within, this party must be dismantled and gone. All the wealth stolen, get part of it back by those democrats that have gotten insanely rich while in office, get their 401, off shore accounts, sell their property: all of it etc.

      Reclaim America from the very ones that have helped steal and destroy.

  8. As demonstrated even in this Comments section, there IS an increase in hatred of all Muslims. It’s very much online.

    • It isn’t coming from nowhere Mo. The poor attitudes and behaviors of Muslims has caused people to ‘hate’ all Muslims. However, we have been on the receiving end of Muslim hatred for nearly quarter of a century. 9/11 was just the first shot across the bow IMO. Tolerance is finite.

      • Nearly a quarter of a century? Really? How about more like over 1,400 years. The US has been fighting Islamofascists for over 200 years now

  9. “…Under Trump, it’s become acceptable to hate all Muslims…” – Mohammad Ali Salih

    If such ridiculous logic had any truth, everyone who dislikes, “The Church Of Scientology”, would hate Tom Cruise.

    How does a journalist, writing, correcting errors, and improving for 46 years arrive at such absurd thinking?

    No we don’t hate Muslims, but yes we do dislike violent jihadis who think they are back in a 630 – 1535’s camel saddle slashing their way to martyrdom, spreading the religion by force, and taking the infidel’s booty and women. But that’s not you, Mohammad Ali Salih, is it? You are an American who values its freedoms? Yes?

    And yes, we dislike the Iranian Regime but not the typical Persian Muslim. We dislike all philosophies which extinguish freedom for compliance, religious or political. Muslims may, however, the rest of us will never live under Sharia.

    A human can be born into any religion yet what he does with it is a defining factor of what he becomes. There is something inherent in Islam that leads to violence, declared in the name of Allah, that is not being seen in any other mainstream religion. Perhaps Mohammad Ali Salih could do a great service and write an explanation for that disparity and perhaps a few words about why all Jews seem to hated by many Muslims.

  10. Let’s start by saying this: What right does this guy have to say which immigrants can come to the U.S.? The answer is NONE! We should have never let in any to begin with, especially after what politicians SHOULD have known about them. Now, we need to throw them all out and destroy those mosques that are used as war preaching or worse.

    Any group (and there’s only one), that has a prophet and a ‘god’ that calls for the elimination and destruction of any other religion, nation and people – should be designated a terrorist entity. In addition, this prophet of theirs did horrific things to everyone he came across – and they consider him the “best of humanity” and strive in fanatical ways with a strange sexual excitement – to kill in order to emulate him? These fanatics are the sickest of the sick, and thieves, liars, rapists, pedophiles, and mass murderers – just like their prophet was.

    So, that makes Islam a terrorist entity – and I do not proclaim this easily, but with too many years of studying them and watching their deeds throughout the world. Islam needs to be banned in the U.S. and wherever good people wish to be free. As for the “good Muslims”, as long as they continue to stay in that religion and bow to a mass murderer who mandates our death, there are none.

    They can’t have it both ways.

  11. There is a huge difference in *hatred* for something or someone and a *discrimination* against what is hated. One does not just stop hating something because he’s told it’s “unacceptable* to hate..

    muzzies….**all** of the devout, want me dead. If they had the opportunity, they’d see to it. If there are any non-devout who still stay with the demon cult, they aren’t much better than those ready to murder.

    It is *acceptable* to hate what is evil, hurtful, harmful, disgusting, despicable, demonic. In fact, for certain people, it’s a requirement that they hate those things.

    muzzies complain about being hated , but they go right on lying, stealing, kidnapping, raping and murdering and then whine and complain and blame those whom they have raped and murdered for being raped and murdered.

    Hate: it is acceptable to hate demonic evil. If muzzies didn’t subscribe to it, and didn’t act on it, they would be like all others. But they endorse it, they harbor it, act on it, live by it, murder for it and hate us for not joining in their evil.

    They hate us. simply because *we are here.*
    .So they shouldn’t complain when what they do brings hate back on them.

    • somehistory says,

      “Hate: it is acceptable to hate demonic evil.”

      Not only acceptable, but we should hate demonic evil.

      Both islam – along with its devout followers – are demonic evil.

  12. Muslims are people. Islam is a harsh dictatorial political system masquerading as a religion. I don’t hate Muslims, but I do hate Islam. (And communism, and naziism, and fascism…..)

    • Yes Muslims are people, people without a sense of humanity towards others.

      Muslims follow Islam, sharia law both of which is devoid of any moral or humane thinking, the whole structure of Islam is to kill and conquer.

      So here’s a thought for you to think on: I had a neighbor who was Muslim, very nice person except for this…Islam will never tell you the truth about Islam, they will lie continually as i had learned. Trusting a Muslim how ever nice and so forth is a mistake, this can also be said of other people as well yet having experience in this matter will stick by my words.

      • I no longer care about their orchestrated ‘victimhood. I’ve had their moaning, whining and violent acts up to the point that I am disgusted, not hateful. I fear for the future of my children under Sharia Law. By their fruits you shall know them. A great piece of advice from the Bible.

    • John1, and all,

      I agree with your distinction as to categories. One is a person, the other is the ideology.

      My question is a personal one, not a political one.

      This distinction is looking to me, more and more, like a distinction without a difference.
      The distinction begs the question: When a seemingly nice person, say, a German, tells me he believes in an inherently hateful ideology, say Nazism, do I to continue accepting that person? Am I to continue not hating him?

      How do you tell a “nice”, backsliding, Muslim from a “Jihadi” devout Muslim. Would a “Jihadi” Muslim admit they want to act on the Quran’s violent commands or would he pass for a “nice” Muslim, for now?

      I have yet to see any passionate demonstrations by any concerned, “nice” Muslims with slogans saying “Not In My Name”.

      I fully agree the focus should be on baring Islam at our borders –

      and not on wasting time in “hating” individual Muslims. As I said, my question is on a personal level.

      Why hate Nazism and Nazis, yet hate Islam but not Muslims?

      • There are two types of Islamofascist terrorists and those that support them

  13. Mohammed declared war on all Unbelievers in 624 CE.
    Mohammed’s declaration of war on all Infidels was written down in his lifetime and
    included in the first Quran gathered into a book in 650 CE.

    The first foreign war of the United States was fought from 1801-15 due to
    Mohammed’s war declaration of 624 CE

    Mohammed’s war is seen as justified by Islam because unbelievers insult Allah, and his Prophet,
    by their unbelief.
    Therefore, they claim they are engaged in “defensive” war.
    They are defending Allah and the Prophet.

    Islam, from its beginning, declared its “defensive” war on Unbelievers, who won’t comply.
    Islam doesn’t want to have to make this war – the Unbelievers force it on them – by their unbelief.

    Unbelievers who recognize, acknowledge, and address this declaration of war are accused of “hate”.
    The accusers are right. We unbelievers hate having Islam’s Mohammed, declare war on us.

    This Islamic attitude, that they are having to “defend” themselves against our unbelief, is the source of the warped thinking of Islam.
    You won’t let Islam dominate you – so Islam, and therefore, its practitioners, are victims of oppression.

    Islam and its Muslims are not allowed to “fully practice their way of life” because their way of life includes politically governing over Unbelievers.

    A creeping example is N Y City allowing the amplified “Call To Prayer” at 5:04 am, and four more times throughout the day, during Ramadan.
    The 5 am call violates the local noise ordinance. The amplification level at other times would depend on the amplification levels. Duration of call ranges from 20 seconds to 2 minutes.
    The justification is the ringing of church bells. Church bells, with rate exception, comply with the local noise ordinance of no amplified sound from 10 pm – 7 am.

    But Islam insists, on religious grounds, to govern over Unbelievers. In this case, on being allowed to violate secular laws, e.g. local noise ordinances.

    Islam’s insistence on governing over Unbelievers is the unique feature of Islam.
    It is what makes it a form of government that has some religious aspects.

    Unbelievers who recognize, acknowledge, and try to address this governance are accused of “hate”.
    Those accusers are correct. We hate Islam for wanting to govern over us.

    We hate Islam’s insistence on governing over us because we already have a form of governance that we love, revere and prefer. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

    Islam is inherently incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
    This is Islams defining feature.

    As a host country, the U.S. gets no inherent benefit from Islam. What the U.S. does get from Islam is a competing form of governance and ,therefore, unending trouble from Islam.
    So why allow Islam adherents, with their anti-U S beliefs, to immigrate to the U.S.?

    Keep it simple. Ban the competing government, that is Islam, at the U.S. borders.

  14. I’ve looked deeply your religion. The deeper I looked, the more repelled I was. I thought the Catholic nonsense that I was brought up with was wacky and weird, but Islam is off the charts. Cruelty, violence, child abuse, misogyny, deceit, bigotry, murder, all taught to Muslims from birth. No, I don’t ‘hate all Muslims, I pity them because they have no humanity, only a desire to dominate and steal the lives, property and peace of mind of others using the serving of their imaginary friend as an excuse.

  16. Anyone who knows anything about Islam’s evil, barbaric and hate filled nature, like people here at jihad watch, is bound to hate Islam. People who don’t hate the evil ideology are clueless and ignorant about islam. Islam deserves whatever hatred and contempt it receives.

  17. Interesting how my first comment didn’t seem to go through. I wish I had copied it exactly. My point was that there it IS becoming more acceptable/popular to hate all Muslims. You can see it even in this Comments section.

    I want no part of it.

    • Mo, where has Robert Spencer or Jihad Watch *ever* said to hate all Muslims? It *never has*. Neither has President Trump.

      And your other comment seems to have posted.

    • When it comes to hate, I take Proverbs 6 as a guide. Each person is responsible for himself.

    • what is a “useful idiot”

      a muslim follows the koran

      the koran divides the world into Dār al-Islam, in Islamic political ideology, the region in which Islam has ascendance; traditionally it has been matched with the Dār al-Ḥarb (abode of war), the region into which Islam could and should expand..

      and mohammud says “war is deceit”

      Islam allows deception in war in order to attain victory. Al-Nawawi said: “The scholars are agreed that it is permissible to deceive the kuffaar in war in any way possible.

      your friendly neighborhood muslim understand and practice deceit when they are a minority…remember we, in the west are not in lands where “Islam has ascendance”

      we are in “Dār al-Ḥarb (abode of war)”

      see how muslim function and behave when they are in power…

      see what “part of it” you will be allowed

      muslims depend on well intentioned naive individuals who refuse to comprehend the monster that is islam

      • Follow Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. On nearly a daily basis there are reports of Islam slaughtering villagers, raping and abducting women and children, burning homes and churches.
        These Jihadi’s are following the Quran and doing as their Prophet did.

        Do you see any “nice” Muslims anywhere organizing and protesting against these Jihadis?

        They can’t – because they all read the same Quran, that teaches the same Jihad. They are all are taught to do as Mohammed did. “Nice” Muslims are either not devout Muslims or are being deceptive.

        And you want no part in hating Islam and its followers?

        If you don’t hate Islam, including its followers, I’d hate to see what you love.

  18. Maybe it’s taken us 46 years to wake up to the Hijra strategy of infiltration and Islamization of our country
    When the Muslims want to build Shari’a compounds from which to wage Jihad on our society, that’s not OK..

    • Dave says,

      “Maybe it’s taken us 46 years to wake up to the Hijra strategy of infiltration and Islamization of our country”

      One thing is for certain:

      We don’t have the luxury of another 46 years.

  20. Never is a long time and can’t happen. What has happened is that Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams did ban Muslims, because Muslims see it as their duty to conquer us which is still a part of their religion. So why don’t we ban all Muslims?

  21. I have always hated all Islaomfascists – ever since they tried to kill me. Don’t like it TFB

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