Speech and penalty

The revolutionary and untraditional speech by US President Donald Trump delivered on his inauguration ceremony included many implications, such as direct criticism to America’s elite politicians present at the ceremony when he said ‘politicians who say things and never do them.’ He also warned them by saying that ‘the time for words is over.’ Other implications were dangerous and had economic dimensions when he said ‘America First.’ But perhaps the most terrifying implication was his call to unite the world against ‘Islamic extremist terrorism’ and promised to erase it from the world.

When the leader of the world’s mightiest power makes such threats and describes Muslims as ‘terrorists’ on his inaugural ceremony, this completely goes in line with neoconservatives’ calls and repeated talks about the new enemy after Communism; which is radical Islam. What they refer to goes beyond the Islamic State (IS), and Hollywood had been promoting this in several movies seeking to demonize Islam just the way they did with Nazism and Communism. One of the systematically written movies currently shown worldwide is ‘Patriots Day’ that talks about the true story of a terrorist crime committed by two Muslim brothers during the Boston marathon in 2013.

Though most Muslims do not live in the Arab region, one would immediately link between Arabs and Islam. So, when Trump says ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism,’ everyone’s eyes immediately turn toward us out of all Muslims living in Indonesia, Malaysia or any other Muslim country around the world. Therefore, Arab officials’ silence about these remarks in the inaugural speech reflects their shock and negligence towards their responsibilities in changing Arab culture. It also reflects their lack of hard work to dry up the sources of radicalism and fight terrorists’ dens.