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Obama says world should address ‘grievances’ that terrorists exploit
Fox News ^ | February 19, 2015

Posted on 02/19/2015 6:35:46 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

WASHINGTON – President Obama defended his administration’s approach to the terror threat at a White House summit Wednesday, standing by claims that groups like the Islamic State do not represent Islam -- as well as assertions that job creation could help combat extremism.

Obama, addressing the Washington audience on the second day of the summit, said the international community needs to address “grievances” that terrorists exploit, including economic and political issues.

He stressed that poverty alone doesn’t cause terrorism, but “resentments fester” and extremism grows when millions of people are impoverished.

“We do have to address the grievances that terrorists exploit including economic grievances,” he said.

He also said no single religion was responsible for violence and terrorism, adding he wants to lift up the voice of tolerance in the United States and beyond.

Obama’s address came as Republican lawmakers and others criticized the administration for declining to describe the threat as Islamic terrorism.

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf has also come under fire for suggesting several times this past week that more jobs could help address the terrorism crisis.

On Tuesday, Rob O'Neill, former Navy SEAL Team 6 member who claims to have fired the shot that killed Usama bin Laden, told Fox News: "They get paid to cut off heads -- to crucify children, to sell slaves and to cut off heads and I don't think that a change in career path is what's going to stop them."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: islamicterrorism; nationalsecurity; terrorism
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Get rid of Obamacare?


21 posted on 02/19/2015 6:49:31 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If the KKK were killing this many people in America, how would Obama respond? By saying we need to understand their grievances? Would he call for Tolerance?


22 posted on 02/19/2015 6:50:43 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: b4its2late

Most of those Heroes paid with their lives just for being there at that time.

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23 posted on 02/19/2015 6:50:58 AM PST by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

24 posted on 02/19/2015 6:51:22 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Obama making his case that Christians are the ‘real threat’ and should be exterminated.


25 posted on 02/19/2015 6:54:00 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife



26 posted on 02/19/2015 6:54:47 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Grievance politics is all he knows.

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Yep, he explains every problem in the context of a grievance against some perceived wrong. The most frequently used tactic in his playbook is to set up a straw man argument that he uses to play the blame game. He does it virtually every time. His tactics are very predictable.


27 posted on 02/19/2015 6:56:19 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Paladin2
The main grievance I see is that Sharia is not yet universal. How’s Bammy going to address that issue?

My guess...."Executive Order" right after Martial Law.

28 posted on 02/19/2015 6:57:04 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Barry the Boob: He stressed that poverty alone doesn’t cause terrorism, but “resentments fester” and extremism grows when millions of people are impoverished.

“We do have to address the grievances that terrorists exploit including economic grievances,” he said.


Yeah, whatever. Address all the imaginary grievances you want...just do it with your money, pal, not everybody else's.
29 posted on 02/19/2015 7:00:08 AM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: MeshugeMikey
American Thinker, Thomas Lifson - April 17, 2014: In his own words: Barack Obama on Christianity and Islam

"A website called Now The End Begins has compiled 40 comments by Barack Obama on Christianity and Islam. Collectively, they create quite an interesting picture. I admit that there may be instances of the president speaking as favorably of Christianity as he does of Islam, but I am not aware of them. I do remember in the 2008 campaign that he said he had accepted Jesus Christ as his savior, and that was in response to public awareness of his attendance at Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church, Trinity United. What the president left unsaid is the nature of Jesus as understood in Black Liberation Theology. But that is a discussion for another time......

1. “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”

2. “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”

3. “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”

4. “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”

5. “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”

6. “Islam has always been part of America”

7. “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”

8. “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”

9. “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”

10. “I made it clear that America is not – and will never be – at war with Islam.”

11. “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”

....MORE at LINK......

30 posted on 02/19/2015 7:02:27 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
ZERO
31 posted on 02/19/2015 7:04:03 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Our president is one evil piece of dog sh*&.

I just can't think of a more accurate way to describe the SOB.

32 posted on 02/19/2015 7:06:56 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/obama_and_the_muslim_gang_sign.html

It’s very clear he is one of them and has the same grievances.


33 posted on 02/19/2015 7:07:35 AM PST by Beach333
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Grievance politics is all he knows.

divide and conquer is his M.O.

34 posted on 02/19/2015 7:07:55 AM PST by uncitizen (They demand we judge them by the color of their skin)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
being singularly wrapped up in ..HIMSELF... Obie cant possibly see past his islamic Nose...to perceive how transparent hi LIIES are to those not thusly afflicted!!




35 posted on 02/19/2015 7:08:38 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Nice graphic, Mikey.

When I watch Obola, I suppport my head with only finger.


36 posted on 02/19/2015 7:10:27 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If isis does not represent islam then how did mohamhead?


37 posted on 02/19/2015 7:10:48 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
BTW this comment of his is a defacto admission by the president that these terrorists are Muslim.

He would never suggest addressing the concerns of 'right wing christian extremists'.

38 posted on 02/19/2015 7:11:40 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Westbrook

ISIS is conducting a replay of the jihad of conquest in the middle east from the 7th century.

I believe that their aim is to reconquer the middle east and put it under their strict version of islamic law because they believe that the islamic rule instigated by Mohammed has become irreversibly corrupted. They are working on a rebuild.

After they have accomplished those aims, the goal becomes revisiting the conquest of eastern and western Europe which ultimately failed over many centuries.

They want to reaccomplish the original goals of their worthless prophet and do it the “right way” this time.

They are islam, they are dedicated, they need to be forcibly crushed into dust without regard to collateral damage.


39 posted on 02/19/2015 7:11:54 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I have a better idea. How about we keep killing terrorists until they address their grievances in a peaceful manner?


40 posted on 02/19/2015 7:12:38 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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