US State Secretary Marco Rubio on Wednesday (local time) warned that radical Islam’s desire to “control more territories and people” is an “imminent threat” to the world. He also said that the US will restrict visas for those who “direct, authorise, fund or support violence against Christians” in Nigeria and around the world.
In an interview with Fox News, Rudio stated that the US faces the most threat from radical Islamists, who he believed consider the country as “the chief source of evil on the planet”.
“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,” Rubio said.
“That’s a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West, but especially the United States, which they identify as the chief source of evil on the planet,” he added.
Rubio further said that radical Islamists are “prepared to conduct acts of terrorism, assassination, murders” to gain their “domination of different cultures and societies.”
“Radical Islam has designs, openly, on the West, on the United States, on Europe. We’ve seen that progress there as well. 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.” Rubio said in a Fox News interview.
Additionally, Marco Rubio announced that the US will restrict visas of those “who knowingly direct, authorise, fund, support” or carry out atrocities and violence against Christians in Nigeria and around the world.
