In response, the former Secretary of State for a President who has given billions to the Islamic Republic of Iran accused Trump of treason, saying he was giving aid and comfort to the enemy with his rhetoric, which enabled the Islamic State to claim that the United States was at war with Islam.

So Clinton apparently believes that if the U.S. continues to refuse to acknowledge the motivating ideology behind jihad terror, the jihad force will be weakened, but if we do acknowledge it, that ideology will be strengthened. Her claim that the Islamic State recruits on the basis of alleged anti-Muslim rhetoric from Western politicians is based on the fact that the Islamic State and al-Qaeda often recruit on the basis of grievance narratives against the West. But Clinton ignores the fact that the Islamic States magazine is filled, issue after issue, with explanations of the Quran and Islam that make it clear that this isnt ultimately a conflict about those grievances.

The Islamic State wrote in its Dabiq magazine recently: Even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam. No doubt they will continue to hate Hillary Clinton for not embracing Islam, no matter how much she employs comforting euphemisms rather than dealing honestly with the jihad ideology.

Reporter to Clinton: Are You Concerned These Bombings Are ISIS Sympathizers or Maybe the Russians Trying to Swing Election to Trump?, by David Rutz, Washington Free Beacon , September 19, 2016: