Obama: ISIS 'aren't religious leaders, they're terrorists'

The Hill ^ | February 18, 2015 | Martin Matishak

[Cincinatus' Wife]

President Obama on Wednesday said he doesn’t describe the United States as being at war with radical Islam because he doesn’t want to give undue credit to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“They’re not religious leaders, they’re terrorists,” Obama said of ISIS in remarks at the White House’s summit on countering violent extremism. Obama argued that ISIS wants to present itself as representing a religion, which is why they refer to themselves as the Islamic State.

He argued the U.S. and its allies need to do everything they can to discredit that idea.

The president’s comments were a direct response to criticism from Republicans who have argued he should say the U.S. is at war with radical Islam.

[samtheman]

I guess I am.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I should be happy that he apparently called the “terrorists” but I head the audio and he called them “terra-ists” which I believe means they live on Earth.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

ISIS is Islam. Period.