“A country more readily associated with calypso and carnival than the ‘caliphate'” is the one reported to have the highest rate of Islamic State recruitment in the Western hemisphere, an alarming title to hold: Trinidad.

The “designation” also proves that appearances (e.g. of calypso and carnival) are no indicator of how Islamized a Western country can be; Islamic supremacists are well-versed in deception.

I visited Trinidad recently, and every rest stop along a main route was really a rum shop with Carib beer signs — one small sign of a secular hope that Trinidad and Tobago will not be completely overtaken by jihadists.

“ISIS in the Caribbean”, by Simon Cottee, The Atlantic, December 8, 2016: