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Secretary of State Rubio: Radical Islam Hates America
(U.S. State Department) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday: "All radical Islamic movements in the world identify the West writ large but the United States in particular as the greatest evil on the Earth. And every chance they have - the notion that somehow radical Islam would be comfortable with simply controlling some province in Iraq or Syria is just not borne out by history. Radical Islam has shown that their desire is not simply to occupy one part of the world and be happy with their own little caliphate; they want to expand. It's revolutionary in its nature. It seeks to expand and control more territories and more people." "Radical Islam has designs, openly, on the West - on the United States, on Europe....And they are prepared to conduct acts of terrorism - in the case of Iran, nation-state actions, assassinations, murders, you name it. Whatever it takes for them to gain their influence and ultimately their domination of different cultures and societies." "That's a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West, but especially to the United States....They hate Israel. But they also hate America, and they hate anywhere in the world that we have influence; they seek to attack it, including here in the homeland. If you look at the attacks that have happened here domestically, the overwhelming majority of them have been inspired by radical Islamic viewpoints."