Responding to Trump's policies by warning that they'll merely create more "radicals" in Muslim-majority countries is...just bad. Consider:
1. It prioritizes life in the West--particularly white Christian life.
2. It conceptualizes Muslims as an undistinguished mass awaiting a pretext to activate their innately violent selves.
3. It elides imperialism, racism, capitalism, neoliberalism, and every other "ism" besides the vague pejorative "Islamism."
4. Many of the so-called radical groups in Muslim-majority countries were created or cosseted by the United States.
5. It transfers the onus of "radicalism"--in this discourse a synonym for "extremism" or "terrorism"--onto an essentialized, amorphous Other while freeing the United States and its Western allies from moral or political responsibility for their continuous, often brutal, violence.
6. The objection to Trump's antagonism is more concerned with Brand America than with the massive suffering such antagonism will produce.
7. It assumes that some groups of people (*cough* MuslimsBlacksArabsImmigrantsAfricans *cough*) are more susceptible to radicalization and thus more prone to terrorism.
8. It unwittingly precludes, or attempts to preclude, the ubiquitous presence of structural racism and settler colonization in North America. Blackness gets disappeared. Indigeneity gets confined to a romanticized history.
9. Pundits have been repeating the same thing since before 9/11 and it really hasn't become less boring or stupid with time.