US President urges Muslims leaders to speak up against Islamic State

The issue ratcheted up further after Wednesday’s attacks in San Bernardino, amid reports that the husband-and-wife shooting team may have been radicalized by the Islamic State’s calls for jihad. He announced the killing of Osama bin Laden in a speech from the East Room, a location that allows him to stride up to the lectern through the Cross Hall of the White House as the cameras are rolling. “We can not turn against one another by letting this fight be defined as a war between America and Islam”, he said. It’s what the Islamic State wants, and as Europe has learned the hard way, isolating Muslims can breed more jihadists. President Obama also pronounced what the USA should not do.

“And I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure …”

President Obama said tonight he’s anxious about a backlash against American Muslims. He once derisively dismissed the group as a terrorist junior varsity team, said before the Paris attacks that it was contained in Syria and Iraq, and as recently as last week said there weren’t credible known threats against the U.S. Last week’s massacre in San Bernardino, California, which was carried out by a young Muslim couple, should certainly create a new sense of urgency for those efforts. “They are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death”.

Leaders of the Islamic center where Johnson spoke, All Dulles Area Muslim Society, who said they have been doing all they can since the September 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on NY and Washington. It also pointed to a Pew Research poll, which the campaign declined to identify, which the campaign claimed points to “great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population”.

Ahmed says the Muslim community is continuing the conversation about their faith so people can understand that they are not the enemy. This is a matter of national security, ” he said. Congress should “act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun”, he said.

“Obama Says of Terrorist Threat, “We Will Overcome It” read a New York Times headline. When we make rash decisions, reacting to the headlines instead of using our heads; when the first response to a challenge is to send in our military, then we risk getting drawn into unnecessary conflicts, and neglect the broader strategy we need for a safer, more prosperous world.

It was his toughest language yet from the oval office – a setting used by past presidents for moments of high outcome, many of which are now remembered as turning points in the modern American narrative.

“We’ve seen that the screening process to-date is inadequate to meet the threat that we find ourselves under today”, Pompeo said.

Obama is scheduled to speak to the nation at 8 p.m. EST.

Magid said attacks in Paris and California have taken a toll on his community in Sterling, Virginia.

The White House posted video of the president’s address on Facebook Sunday night. And while the country has been decidedly tired of war, Obama urged Congress to clear the pathway to use military force against ISIL. “Obama: “This was an act of terrorism” from CNN.