Trump’s Riyadh farce exposed in Manchester

U.S. President Donald Trump has accomplished the impossible.

After correctly diagnosing the ailment that afflicts the Muslim world, he has prescribed the wrong medicine as the cure, thus ensuring the epidemic will thrive.

Speaking Sunday at a summit of over 50 Sunni Muslim-majority countries in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, Trump correctly called for “confronting the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds.” So far so good. But then he laid the blame at the feet of ShiaMuslim Iran.

It didn’t take long for Trump’s prescription to be blown to smithereens.

Barely 24 hours after his speech, a 22-yearold Briton, whose family immigrated from Sunni-dominated Libya, not Shia-dominated Iran, blew himself up in Manchester, England, outside an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people, including children, and injuring dozens more.

Among those cheering the loudest were supporters of ISIS, the Sunni terrorist group.

Prior to the tragedy, addressing the dictators and monarchs who rule the Sunni Islamic world, Trump said, “no discussion of stamping out this threat (Islamic terror) would be complete without mentioning the government that gives terrorists ... safe harbor, financial backing, and the social standing needed for recruitment. … I am speaking of course of Iran.”

I shook my head in disbelief. I could not imagine any Muslim who would not roll their eyes and scoff at Trump’s prepared remarks.

As Muslims, we may be grabbing at each other’s throats, but we can smell cow dung.

Few Muslims, Shia or Sunni, Iranian or Saudi, Baloch or Kurd, Afghan or Somali, would swallow the absurdity of linking Shia Iran with Islamic terrorism, when the far greater culprit is Saudi Arabia’s Sunni-controlled government.

Even one of the most prominent Muslim Republicans in America, retired U.S. Navy Lt.Cmdr. Zuhdi Jasser, referred to the leaders of the Sunni-dominated Muslim-majority countries present in Riyadh as, “THE Islamist Mafia.”

Quoting from Trump’s speech, he rebuked the U.S. president in a tweet: “Trump: ‘Terrorists do not worship God they worship death’ -No they are invoking interpretations of THE Islamist mafia you are addressing.”

The Manchester slaughter took place on the fourth anniversary of the public execution of British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby, by adherents of the Islamism that has spread across the Sunni Islamic world, Europe and North America. The Riyadh conference was a farce. The leader of one of the few democracies in the Muslim world, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, a woman who has actively fought Islamic terrorism, was shut out from the front row of the group photographs.

The only winner at the Riyadh circus was America’s military-industrial complex, which can sell weapons of war to dictatorships who will not be able to stop another Manchester bombing, no matter how many billions worth of tanks and fighter jets they buy.