White House slams those terming ISIS narrative ‘radical Islam’

Overall there were no new policy prescriptions, no fresh military strategies and no timelines.

“It is entirely possible that these two attackers were radicalized to commit this act of terror”, Obama said of Syed Farook, 28, and his 29-year-old Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, who slaughtered 14 people and wounded 21 others at a year-end office party on Wednesday.

It’s heartbreaking, truly – we’ve become so desensitized to the phrase “mass shooting” that we need Obama to define this San Bernardino attack as “terrorism” before we take it seriously. “The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. We will destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us”. “… We will prevail by being strong and smart, resilient and relentless. And by drawing upon every aspect of American power”, he said.

Ali, 73, was somewhat thrust into the debate when President Barack Obama mentioned Muslims were U.S. soldiers and citizens and sports heroes, and Trump challenged people to think of a Muslim sports hero. Terrorists do not care about climate change.

When it comes to matters of life and death, that is no time for the kind of glib, politically correct rhetoric that Barack Obama specializes in.

Sunday’s speech also took center stage in the 2016 presidential campaign. “So this was an act of terrorism, created to kill innocent people”, Obama said.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives serving the Seventh Congressional District of Tennessee. Meanwhile, diplomatic efforts to forge a cease-fire in the Syrian civil war are making slow progress, Obama said. A look at what Obama said in his 13-minute Oval Office address.

The president’s most specific policy announcement was to order a review of the fiancée visa program that the female shooter in California used to enter the U.S. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies have disrupted countless plots here and overseas, and worked around the clock to keep us safe.

And Obama also asked for Congress to officially recognize US efforts in the fight against the terrorist group.

The president said there was no evidence that the couple was part of a broader conspiracy in the USA, or part of a terror cell.

Obama’s gun push has no chance of passing a Republican-led Congress. The Senate last week rejected legislation barring people suspected by the government of being violent extremists from purchasing firearms. “Read about it, talk to the people who really know Islam and not the people who know nothing about it”, Al-Hayani said. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said. “I think there have been times where there has not been enough pushback against extremism”. “This is not a time for ideological silliness, this is a time for serious action because the future security of our country is at stake”.

“Well, Obama refused to say [he just can’t say it], that we are at war with radical Islamic terrorists”, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump tweeted after the address. Muslim leaders here and around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote; to speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.

Yet Obama’s speech was likely to leave his critics unsatisfied.

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