Trump tells Muslim leaders he brings message of 'friendship, hope and love'

RIYADH: The United States President Donald Trump says that the overwhelming majority of victims of terrorist attacks are the “innocent people of the Arab, Muslim and Middle Eastern nations.” Speaking at the Arab-Islamic American Summit in Riyadh Sunday, Trump said that “95 percent of the victims of terrorist attacks are themselves Muslims.” He said that terrorism must not only be measured by the number of dead, but the number of “vanished dreams.” It’s a departure from his sometimes anti-Muslim rhetoric during his presidential campaign. President Donald Trump is painting the fight against extremists as “a battle between good and evil.” Trump is saying in his first major foreign policy address as president that the fight against terrorism “is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations. This is a battle between those who seek to obliterate human life and those who seek to protect it.” He says that, “terrorist don’t worship God. They worship death.” Trump is speaking in front of an audience of leaders from Arab and Muslim-majority nations. Trump says Syria's Assad has committed `unspeakable crimes' with Iran's support. He says the U.S. is prepared to stand with those leaders in the fight against extremists, but that those countries must take the lead. He urged them to drive extremists “out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your community. Drive them out of your holy land.” President Donald Trump says the U.S. seeks a “coalition of nations” in the Middle East with the aim of “stamping out extremism.” In his address to the Arab-Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Trump is vowing to “strengthen America’s oldest friendships, and to seek new partners in pursuit of peace.” Trump promised “that America will not seek to impose our way of life on others, but to outstretch our hands in the spirit cooperation and trust.” King Salman of Saudi Arabia says he is committed to stamping out the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations. Salman is speaking at a gathering of the leaders of more than 50 majority-Muslim countries attending the Arab-Islamic-American Summit in Riyadh. He says that “we all, peoples and countries, reject in every language and in every form damaging the relations of Muslim countries with friendly countries and profiling countries based on a religious or sectarian basis.” He’s also railing against Iran, calling the country “the spearhead of global terrorism.”