Hillary Clinton slams Trump, calls him ‘IS recruiter’

“He is becoming ISIS’s best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists,” she said. She said that “it was not in America’s interest to react with this kind of fear and respond to this sort of bigotry.” Slamming Trump for his anti-Muslim rhetoric including his call to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US, 68-year-old Clinton said the first line of defence against radicalisation is in Muslim-American community. “Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people and to make think there are easy answers to very complex questions,” she said.

‘Befriend Muslims’ “We need to be united against the threats that we face. “We must work more closely with Muslim-American communities. I met with a group of Muslim-Americans this past week to hear from them about what they’re doing to try to stop radicalisation. They will be our early warning signal. That’s why we need to work with them, not demonize them, as the Republicans have been doing,” Clinton said. 

Islamic State threatened to attack Saudi Arabia for “colluding with crusaders” after the oil-rich kingdom said it had established a 34-state Islamic military coalition to target the militants. In a weekly publication documenting its military activities, the jihadist group described as “morons and fools” the 34 members of the coalition which Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said will be headquartered in Riyadh to coordinate mutual anti-terrorism assistance across the Islamic world. “With permission from Allah, this alliance will be the beginning of the collapse of the governments of the oppressive tyrants in the lands of Islam,” said an article entitled “Mohammed bin Salman’s alliance of surprised allies”. It has urged young Saudi Sunnis to attack targets including Shi’ites.