Posted on 03/28/2016 5:29:55 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
"ISIL poses a threat to the entire civilized world," President Obama said in his Saturday radio address, as he explained what he's doing to counter the threat posed by radical Islamic extremism -- a phrase he refuses to use.
In addition to waging war and diplomacy, Obama said Americans, for their own good, must welcome Muslims into their midst:
"As we move forward in this fight, we have to wield another weapon alongside our airstrikes, our military, our counterterrorism work, and our diplomacy. And that's the power of our example. Our openness to refugees fleeing ISIL's violence. Our determination to win the battle against ISIL's hateful and violent propaganda -- a distorted view of Islam that aims to radicalize young Muslims to their cause.
"In that effort, our most important partners are American Muslims. That's why we have to reject any attempt to stigmatize Muslim-Americans, and their enormous contributions to our country and our way of life.
"Such attempts are contrary to our character, to our values, and to our history as a nation built around the idea of religious freedom. It's also counterproductive. It plays right into the hands of terrorists who want to turn us against one another; who need a reason to recruit more people to their hateful cause.
"I am a father. And just like any other parent, the awful images from Brussels draw my thoughts to my own children's safety. That's also why you should be confident that defeating ISIL remains our top military, intelligence, and national security priority."
Obama said the terrorists will fail, because "we will defeat them" with our values, our way of life, and our vision of the future.
Secretary of State John Kerry, interviewed on CBS's "Face the Nation," was asked if he is worried about another terror attack in Europe.
"Well, I think everybody is concerned, because for several years now, foreign fighters have been returning from Syria or from other locations and implanting themselves in the communities," Kerry responded.
"And this is the threat that we have all been aware of. We have been looking for additional screening. We have been engaged actually with the Belgian authorities for some period of time now trying to fill gaps that they are aware exist.
"And I think everybody is now geared up to recognize that the fight is not just in Iraq and Syria, but the fight is wherever those fighters have come from."
Kerry said it's part of the Islamic State's plan to "put people in other places." He said the attacks will happen, regardless of whether the would-be caliphate in Iraq and Syria is collapsing.
Such as . . . ????
Deceiver.
Uh . . . no.
i think he means 95% are on welfare
PARTNER
Mr. O, I think you’re almost late for your next Tango lesson.
And you know Senorita Velez does not like to be kept waiting.
It’s amazing how long he’s been able to keep up the ruse.
Is Obama the only person in the whole world who can’t even get ISIS’ name right?
This asshat is going to shove this right down America’s throat, and where are the ‘spineless sissies’ in D.C. OH that’s right, they are on SPRING BREAK, I wonder if that’s like ‘ARAB SPRING’???
It is Obama that has a distorted vision of islam. It is a supremacy ideology disguised by a cloak of religion.
With useful idiot accomplices like you.
Growing up, I never heard of Islam and to this day have never met a Muslim. There was not one mention of notable Muslims in American history books. Our Muslim loving president is lying when he credits them with having any influence at all on the USA until 9/11. If every Muslim were deported, the USA would go back to those happier times.
That’s his anti-Semitism and his defense of these terrorist showing. ISIL stands for Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant. Levant means the West of the Middle east including Israel. ISIS is the proper name, that stands for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Last time I checked, these animals didn’t originate in Israel but according to this treasonous bastard they did.
There is no end to this man’s condescending empty simpleminded rhetoric.
Heeding this advice that plays down “Islamic-terrorism”is akin to committing suicide. Muslims - extremist or not - are committing murder everywhere, and he is peddling this?
No mention of global warming?
What else is it going to take to prove to the citizens of our country that Obama is, in fact, a Muslim...
what was the estimate? Fighters from 86 different countries?
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