Orlando shooting revives a fight over ‘Islamic’ label

As news of the nightclub shooting in Orlando spread, Donald Trump revived the debate over what to call acts of violence by people inspired or directed by extremist groups like the Islamic State.

“I have clearly said that we face terrorists enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people”.

In a flurry of TV interviews, Trump redoubled his call for banning Muslims who come from other countries, although the shooter in Sunday’s Orlando nightclub attack was an American citizen born in NY.

After Romans interjected, Trump replied, “She would love to use those words because nearly everybody agrees that those words should be used”. Tomorrow we’ll get the thumbsuckers and fact checks explaining that, no, Obama is not in league with ISIS and he doesn’t hate America, but those will be on A13 because Trump will be on to something else and that will take up the front page. “She’s also very weak on this subject, and I’m sure at some point she’ll be forced to use the term ‘radical Islam, ‘ or ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ At some point, she has to be, if she doesn’t use the term, so at some point she’ll be forced to use it”.

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking to members of the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2016.

Trump’s most recent vague but seemingly pointed comments about Obama getting it “better than anybody understands” seem to hint at these theories. I think we fight politically correct wars.

For Trump’s detractors, his comments can appear jarring and crass. But then spent the day congratulating himself apparently for predicting more attacks inside the U.S. On Twitter, he renewed talk of his plan to ban Muslims from the U.S. for an indeterminate time.

He cancelled a rally scheduled for Monday, but planned to go forward with a speech in New Hampshire, changing the topic from his case against Clinton to national security.

On Sunday, after an “exciting and productive” meeting with a handful of his closest supporters, Sanders said, “We are taking this campaign and our ideas for a strong platform to transform the Democratic Party away from a party that spends far too much time raising money for wealthy people into a party which represents the grassroots of this country”.

Trump said on CNN that the United States needed better intelligence-gathering to prevent incidents such as the Orlando massacre.

Earlier Monday, Clinton sounded a note of unity, a theme she struck repeatedly during her remarks. She pointedly called out USA partners in the region by name, saying Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar must stop their citizens from funding terrorism.

On Fox News Monday morning, Trump defended the tweet.

“Turning against the Muslim American community is not only wrong, it’s counterproductive and unsafe”, she told MSNBC.

Clinton did use the shooting to raise the nation’s failure to keep guns “out of the hands of terrorists or other violent criminals”. Federal authorities said later Sunday that Mateen purchased at least two firearms legally within the last week or so.

Several current and former world leaders have uttered the words, such as France’s President François Hollande, the U.K.’s Prime Minister David Cameron and ex-Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.