During Donald Trump's CNN interview with Anderson Cooper the other day, Cooper asked whether Trump thought the West is at war with Islam itself or just radical Islam.  Trump replied: "It's radical, but it's very hard to define. It's very hard to separate because you don't know who's who." I'm not an expert on world religions, but I do have several books in my library on that subject.  One of them is A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson, published in 1987.  Page 175 is instructive: When [the Jews] refused to acknowledge [Mohammed's] prophetic mission, he applied the principle of what he called the jihad. This divides the world into the dar al-Islam, the peaceful territory of Islam, where the law [sharia] reigns, and the dar al-Harb, the "territory of war," controlled temporarily by non-Moslems. The jihad is the necessary and permanent state of war against the dar al-Harb, which can only end when the entire...(Read Full Post)