Nobody can know for certain the consequences of President Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The worst-case outcome is that America has once again inflamed the deep enmity towards Western-generated modernity that persists throughout the Islamic world. A better outcome is that the ‘moderns’, as they are characterised in the Greater Middle East, are so empowered by Trump’s peace-through-commerce strategy that the extremism of the ‘brothers’ – the Muslim Brotherhood types, not to mention the Salafi jihadists – goes into abeyance.
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