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To fight extremism, Obama calls on U.S. to embrace its Muslims
Daily Herald ^ | 2-19-15 | JOSH LEDERMAN

Posted on 02/19/2015 5:15:48 PM PST by SJackson

WASHINGTON -- In the fight against violent extremism, President Barack Obama has argued the U.S. has one thing going for it that Europe doesn't: a long tradition of warmly embracing its immigrants, including Muslims.

With the Islamic State group spreading and terrorists gaining strength in the Mideast and Africa, Obama has sought to use this week's White House summit on violent extremism to urge the world to broaden its response far beyond military interventions. U.S. airstrikes have managed to blunt some of the militants' gains in Iraq and Syria, but they don't address the extreme ideologies that underpin deadly groups such as IS, al-Shabab and Boko Haram.

"If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better - and the United States intends to do its part," Obama told the summit Wednesday. He planned to speak again Thursday when delegates from about 65 countries gather for the summit's closing session at the State Department.

But not all Muslim-Americans feel like full members of American society, and security experts warned against assuming that the U.S. is impervious to those who seek to recruit and radicalize.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailyherald.com ...


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1 posted on 02/19/2015 5:15:48 PM PST by SJackson
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uh, no


2 posted on 02/19/2015 5:18:45 PM PST by dforest
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To: SJackson

Hopelessly devoted


3 posted on 02/19/2015 5:19:00 PM PST by Recompennation
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To: SJackson

Why do i read this as he’s going to try to let muslim terrorists into the U.S.,unless he’s stopped?


4 posted on 02/19/2015 5:19:04 PM PST by sportscaster ("LET'S ROLL")
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To: SJackson

It worked so well in Europe.


5 posted on 02/19/2015 5:20:00 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SJackson

Embrace them, tackle them, shove them on a plane back to their muslim paradise sandboxes.


6 posted on 02/19/2015 5:20:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: sportscaster

Dubya did a wonderful job of importing members of the Religion of Peace ©.

Barky will just put that policy on steroids.


7 posted on 02/19/2015 5:21:27 PM PST by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: SJackson

We should embrace all of them that renounce the koran and its instructions to kill the infidel.


8 posted on 02/19/2015 5:24:14 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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9 posted on 02/19/2015 5:26:20 PM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: SJackson

Embrace them without fear; anything you catch will be cured by Obamacare.


10 posted on 02/19/2015 5:27:43 PM PST by stormhill
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To: sportscaster

He’s brought in 500 Syrians with an objective of 2,000 this year. I’ll speculate they’re not all Christians, and that the Muslims are not vetted for connections to terror.


11 posted on 02/19/2015 5:29:24 PM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: sportscaster

Because you’re correct.


12 posted on 02/19/2015 5:32:10 PM PST by EEGator
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To: SJackson

This guy is mentally ill. He should be removed from office.


13 posted on 02/19/2015 5:32:14 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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Let’s hug them to death?

Now if he meant some kind of focused gospel love offensive, that might be another story.

But he just wants to keep pumping the liberal dystopia.


14 posted on 02/19/2015 5:34:19 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SJackson

Not the brightest idea to embrace a potential Jihadist .... just not worth losing your head over a suggestion by the Muslim in Chief.


15 posted on 02/19/2015 5:44:05 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Benghazi Clinton killed 4 & injured a dozen as SOS, imagine what she could do as CinC.)
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To: SJackson

So, Obama admits muslims are extremists.


16 posted on 02/19/2015 5:52:42 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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While Obama urges us to embrace Muslims, Christian businesses are being arrested for not servicing gay weddings.


17 posted on 02/19/2015 5:55:49 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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Eff the moslems back to hell whence they came.

Islam must be destroyed.


18 posted on 02/19/2015 5:56:47 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: SJackson
There has never been such a full court press of stuffing Muslims and Islam down our throats as has been since 9/11, and more so since the idiocracy of this country elected a Muslim sympathizer as president.

More and more every day I cannot believe what is happening to this country.

19 posted on 02/19/2015 5:58:53 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: SJackson

Embrace muslims!

20 posted on 02/19/2015 5:58:58 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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