Trump's choice for national security adviser, retired US Army three-star lieutenant-general Michael Flynn, tweeted in February 2016 that the "fear of Muslims is rational".

Is he correct?

An irrational fear is being afraid of something when you have no reason to be apprehensive. If you have not read the Koran, then your fear of Islam could rightly be called irrational. If you have read the Koran, your apprehension is more than justified.

In Mein Kampf a man ranted about a superior race. In the Koran, a god makes the same type of claim to superiority of those who believe in Him exclusively and seek to impose His Will on those who don't.

Those who read Mein Kampf and, fearing the irrational, escaped to the Americas, survived. Those who didn't, died!

Today, there is no escaping the irrational; you stand your ground, you fight and win, or you die.