George W. Bush: Again With the “Religion of Peace”
12th September 2026
itself as a “religion of peace” was absurd then and is absurd now.
That’s not to say there aren’t Koran verses supporting peace, but there are Koran verses for almost anything, including many supporting war. Nor is the religious text the only point, although the Koran probably has more advocacy of war than exists in other religions. More importantly, it’s pretty obvious that, at least in the last few decades, people acting in the name of Islam are involved in an enormous amount of the terrorism and war-making in the world, both internal (Muslim on Muslim) and internationally.
Polls are an indicator of how much support violence has in the Muslim world, including in the US. For example, in a 2024 poll (obviously taken post 10/7), 37% of Muslims in the US saw Hamas positively. And in July of 2026 the Hamas approval rate among Muslims in America had risen to 44%.
There are ‘good Muslims’ just as there were ‘good Nazis’, but they nevertheless subscribe to an ideology (I won’t dignify it with the name of religion) that has as an essential component a willingness to engage in terrorism ‘for the Cause’, just as National Socialism had as an essential component a willingness to engage in genocide. We won’t be safe until both Muslims and Nazis are excluded from our polities.