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| Why Obama Can't Say "Radical Islam" |
| 2015-01-21 |
| By Eli Lake Following the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris this month, White House spokesman Josh Earnest briefly became an Islamic theologian. At issue was why U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, unlike the leadership of France, wouldn't describe the murderers as adherents to “radical Islam.” Pressed by NPR's Mara Liasson, Earnest explained to reporters that the terrorists tried to “invoke their own deviant, distorted view of Islam in order to justify” the attacks. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #8 If you ain't jaded and cynical at this point, you ain't been keeping up. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-01-21 19:44 |
| #7 I fear you have become jaded Jim. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-01-21 16:44 |
| #6 Not news, liar in Chief lies again. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-01-21 13:03 |
| #5 Fundamentalism. Doing it the way Mo really did do it. cough*cough |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-21 09:11 |
| #4 As far as I have been able to determine, "radical" and "Mainstream" are synonymous and fully interchangeable in this context. I hope this is of assistance Skunky. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-21 07:16 |
| #3 What is the difference between radical islam and mainstream islam? |
| Posted by: Skunky Graick2604 2015-01-21 06:48 |
| #2 Or perhaps repelling down a cliff while knitting your rope. |
| Posted by: Steven 2015-01-21 03:20 |
| #1 The linguistic gymnastics of avoiding connecting Islam to terrorism is almost like watching Cirque de Soliel perform while they recite "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-01-21 00:34 |
