The despicable terrorist acts on Sept. 11, 2001, had produced many calamities in peoples' lives, a national tragedy for the American people and great suffering and distress in the Islamic sciences. A group of Christian and Jewish journalists and columnists proclaimed themselves as Islamic scholars and started passing judgments about hadith (traditions of Prophet Muhammad) and tafsir (exegesis of the Quran) and on Islam in general.

Melanie Phillips is one of those self-proclaimed experts on all the issues related to Islam. She came from the British far-left to the American ultra-right. The fact that she had accused former President Barrack Obama "adopting the agenda of the Islamists" and of being "firmly in the Islamists camp," should tell all about her. She is among those who came up with the "Jihadism theory of Islam": "A Muslim is inherently a jihadist if she or he is a true believer." But of course she does not define jihad as self-improvement but as a holy war.

Since Obama proved himself to be a non-jihadist in every definition of the word, Phillips is now busy writing for Israeli newspapers rather than the U.S. neocon magazines.

In her recent evaluation of the president's tour of Saudi Arabia and Israel, Phillips congratulated U.S. President Donald Trump for "saying everything as it should be said." According to Ms. Phillips, Trump declared that the Jews alone are entitled to Jerusalem.

Here is a president, swallowing all the harsh election rhetoric he uttered for the last two years (Remember: "All Muslims hate us"?) and embracing all U.S. partners in trade, finance and defense in Middle Eastern countries (remember the $110-billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia), and paying attention to the finest detail of symbolism by not walking toward the Western Wall with a Jewish person (albeit a prime minister of the hosting country)... And are you congratulating him for donating the entirety of Jerusalem to the world Jewry?

How does Ms. Phillips do that? She jumps to this conclusion simply by noting that President Trump mentioned, "the two sites most holy to Islam were in Saudi Arabia." Her eyes are glistening with the idea that "the pointed subtext was that Jerusalem is not among them."

We know Trump asked to cancel all Muslim prayers at the White House and a hijabi woman lasted only six days in the building, but he should keep Dalia Mogahed, an American scholar of Egyptian origin, as the adviser on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She would be useful to prevent accidents such as those that make Ms. Phillips jump to her earth-shaking conclusions.

What we have in Saudi Arabia is one of the holiest buildings, the Kabaa in Mecca. The mosque that houses the burial site of Prophet Muhammad in Medina is not holy; it is only respected, venerated. The other holy site is in Al Quds, (Jerusalem).

Ms. Phillips says "the Saudis had to suck it up… because they desperately need America, and Israel too, to defend them against Iran." She might be right about this.

But the Muslims did not and will not learn where their holy sites are from her ilk.