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When talking about the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, American presidents are traditionally
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very careful to differentiate between the vast majority who practice the religion peacefully
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and the small minority who don't.
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There's nothing in there, in Islam that condones the kind of brutality that we've seen
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Our actions today were not aimed against Islam, the faith of hundreds of millions of good,
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peace-loving people.
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We are not at war with Islam, we are at war with those who have perverted Islam.
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President Donald Trump has not continued this tradition.
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Do you think Islam is at war with The West?
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I think Islam hates us.
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There's something, there's something there that's a tremendous hatred.
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To understand why Trump is breaking with his predecessors, you have to understand his chief
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strategist, Steve Bannon.
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Before he joined the Trump campaign, Bannon ran the far-right website Breitbart, where
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he hosted a daily radio show.
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The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam.
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Islam is peace.
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If you listen to Bannon's radio show, and watch his speeches, you start to get a sense
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of how he sees the world.
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Bannon believes that the US and Western Europe are in the middle of an historical struggle
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against Islam itself.
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Bannon isn't talking about the American founding fathers, he's talking about European
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leaders who fought off Muslim conquests in the 8th and 16th centuries.
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That is the context in which Bannon approaches policy today
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This context also helps us understand Bannon's views about refugees from the muslim world.
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In a 2015 interview, Bannon and then-Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana discussed Obama's
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plan to take in10,000 refugees from Syria.
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Bannon seems to think Syrian refugees are incapable of adapting to the American way
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of life.
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Before Breitbart, Bannon made documentary films.
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In the outline for one film, which he didn't end up making, Bannon warns of an Islamist
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takeover of the United States.
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The opening scene features the call to prayer and a flag of the Muslim star and crescent
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flying over the U.S. capitol building.
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Though his current focus is on Muslims, Bannon has expressed a desire to keep all foreign-born
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people out of the U.S.
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In a 2015 interview, he disagreed when Donald Trump
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said we should keep high-skilled immigrants in the US.
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Less than 14% of Silicon Valley CEOs are Asian.
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But the fake statistic supports his view: that legal immigrants are just as problematic
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if not more, than those who are here illegally.
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The number is closer to 13 percent, but Bannon's point is that
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immigrants somehow make America less American.
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He believes they don't share American values, and that, even when here legally, they take jobs
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away from native-born Americans.
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And, in this view, Bannon is way out of sync with mainstream Republicans,
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who, along with business interests like the Chamber of Commerce, have long said they welcome
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legal immigrants.
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We're gonna need more legal immigration.
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Immigrants are an economic engine of vitality for our country, they make things happen.
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We need to figure out how to have more legal immigration.
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Immigrants are the lifeblood of our society.
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I think probably, you know, the most dedicated Americans are those who come here as immigrants.
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Bannon blames legal immigrants for what he describes as a bleak economic landscape for
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native-born Americans.
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If you're under 30 years old, your children are going to be poor, and your grandchildren
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are going to be paupers.
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The only way to stop this from happening, Bannon says, is to rise up against those whom
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he calls the ruling political class, those who allow immigration, legal and illegal,
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to continue.
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Think about it.
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If the elites are so good, how did we get in this jam?
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This is the fourth great crisis in American history: we had the Revolution, we had the
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Civil War, we had the Great Depression and World War II, this is the great fourth turning
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in American history
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Bannon's views have already started to influence policy.
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Multiple news outlets have confirmed that he was behind the executive order temporarily
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banning travelers from 7 majority-muslim countries and almost all refugees from entering the
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US.
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A federal judge has temporarily halted the ban, but with the president's ear, and a
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seat on the National Security Council, Bannon's vision of a closed America, at war
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with Islam will continue to influence policy.
