Bush’s Islamic Appeasement Greatly Damaged America

Islam is an ideology of war and conquest, not a religion of peace.

J.B. Shurk | September 14, 2026

Last Thursday, President George W. Bush sat down with his former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, to discuss the September 11, 2001, Islamic terror attacks on the United States.  While reflecting on his actions twenty-five years earlier, Bush went out of his way to defend Islam: “I also made it clear that Islam was a religion of peace, not a religion of war, and that these people subverted their religion.”  Bush’s absurd statement echoed a similarly absurd statement he made days after the attacks when he told the world, “Islam is peace,” even though the burned bodies of three thousand dead Americans strongly suggested otherwise.  There have been 50,000 Islamic terror attacks since 9/11.  Without question, Islam is a cult of conquest, misery, and war.

Bush’s Islamic appeasement angered me twenty-five years ago, and his continued appeasement infuriates me today.  I cannot believe that the man who asked Americans to go to war against an Islamic menace that threatened (and still threatens) the world can be so intellectually shallow and morally obtuse.  “Islam is a religion of peace,” is a disingenuous stock phrase that is too cute by half.  President Barack Obama loves to tell the same lie.  

While Americans fought and died in foreign lands in an effort to keep Islam’s homicidal evil from causing further harm to the United States, Bush and Obama resettled Muslims into America’s heartland.  Twenty-five years ago, the sight of a woman wearing a burqa in the Midwest would have shocked and worried passersby.  Today, it is too common for anyone to feign surprise.  Both the number of Muslims and the number of mosques in the United States have more than doubled since the Islamic terror attacks that changed our country permanently.  Bush told Americans that we had to fight the terrorists “over there” so that we would never again have to fight them “over here.”  While brave American warriors died “over there,” Bush and Obama betrayed those warriors’ sacrifice by inviting more Muslims “over here,” ensuring that Americans will........

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