Obama said that ideas such as the Muslim ban on Immigrants were “doing the terrorists' work for them,"
Obama's comments on Tuesday
came after a meeting with the Treasury Department with Vice President
Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and other national security
advisors that focused on efforts to cut off the finances of ISIS. He
also said that the campaign against Islamic State is “firing on all
cylinders” and that the “noose is tightening” around the group's
territory in Iraq and Syria, before launching into a lengthy
condemnation of Republican rhetoric about “radical Islam.”
“Are
we going to start treating all Muslim Americans differently” than other
citizens, Obama asked. “Are we going to start discriminating against
them because of their faith?”
'If the U.S. goes down down that path “we would have betrayed the very
things we’re trying to protect,” the president said. “And then the
terrorist would have won, and we cannot let that happen. I will not let
that happen. The
main contribution of some Republicans has been to “criticize this
administration and me for not using the phrase ‘radical Islam.’”
“What
exactly would using this label accomplish?” he asked. “Would it make
ISIL less committed to trying to kill Americans? Would it bring in more
allies? Is there are military strategy that is served by this? The answer,” he said, is “none of the above.”
“This
is a political distraction,” he said. “Someone seriously thinks that we
don’t know who we’re fighting? That would come as a surprise to the
thousands of terrorists who we’ve taken off the battlefield.”
Trump
in his usual fashion, replied to Obama's comments saying Obama was more
angry with him than the Orlando shooter, drawing cheers from the crowd.
"He was more angry at me than he was at the shooter," Trump said. "We're
led by the stupid people," Trump said at one point. "We're not going to
be fools anymore."
Source: CNN / New York Times.
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