Arabic-speaking Christians as well as Muslims say “Inshallah,” but in saying this, Biden is not pandering to Arabic-speaking Christians; he is pandering to the part of his base (Muslim and non-Muslim) that supports Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and demonstrating his support for the Left’s favored religion, Islam. He wouldn’t have said the phrase in English, “God willing,” because his point was not primarily to emphasize that Trump was going to procrastinate in releasing his tax returns; it was to show in a concise, albeit indirect fashion that he is a worthy candidate of the anti-American hard Left, a reliable foe of the alleged “Muslim ban,” and a fervent proponent of mass migration.
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“Joe Biden Says ‘InshAllah’ in Dig at Trump During First Presidential Debate,” by Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart, September 29, 2020:
Former Vice President Joe Biden said “Insh’Allah” during the first presidential debate — a popular Arabic expression meaning “God willing.”
Biden interjected when President Donald Trump was talking about his taxes. He promised to release his 2016 tax return, once an ongoing audit by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had ended. (A recent New York Times article about Trump’s taxes confirmed that he has, in fact, been under a years-long audit.)
As Trump was pressed by moderator Chris Wallace to say when he would release his taxes, Biden interrupted: “When? Insh’Allah?” He chuckled at his own joke.
“Insh’Allah” does not refer specifically to a time in the future. It is more of an expression of hope that something anticipated will happen.
In an article for Arab News in 2015, Ibrahim Al-Ammar wrote that people should not “fear” the phrase:
It’s part of every Muslim’s daily vocabulary, as we are taught by Islam not to make definitive statements about the future, since only God knows what will happen. This means that if someone asked me to provide him with something, instead of “I will give it to you today” I should say: “I will give it to you today, Insha Allah.”…