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All radical Islamic movements in the world identify the West writ large, but the United States in particular, as the greatest evil on the earth.

The notion that somehow radical Islam would be comfortable with simply controlling some province in Iraq or Syria is just not borne out by history.

Radical Islam has shown that their desire

is not simply to occupy one part of the world and be happy with their own little caliphate.

They want to expand. It is a revolutionary in its nature. It seeks to expand and control more

territories and more people. And radical Islam has designs openly on the West. On the United States, on Europe, we've seen that progress there as well, and they are prepared to conduct acts of terrorism in the case of Iran, nation-state actions, assassinations, murders, you name it.

Whatever it takes for them to gain their influence and ultimately their domination of different cultures and societies. That's a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West,

but especially to the United States, who they identify as the chief source of evil on the planet.

The reason why they hate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the leadership of the UAE of Bahrain,

is because they've allowed the United States to partner with them. That's why they hate them. They consider them infidels for it. They hate Israel. But they also hate America. And they hate anywhere in the world that we have influenced, they seek to attack it, including here in the homeland. If you look at the domestic terrorists, at the attacks that have happened here domestically, the overwhelming majority of them have been inspired by radical Islamic viewpoints.

And that includes the shooting in the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

That includes the Saudi pilot in Pensacola. My home state, two attacks.

That's U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking recently on Fox News about radical Islam.

He seems to understand something about Islam that his predecessors in that

particular office either did understand but were unwilling to say or didn't understand. So things

seem to have changed. Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to respond

to some of the recent statements made by Marco Rubio about radical Islam,

Robert Spencer.

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