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Term “Islamic extremism” off limits at White House terrorism summit
“‘Islamic extremism’ off limits at White House terrorism summit,” by Marisa Schultz, New York Post, February 17, 2015:
WASHINGTON — The White House will kick off a three-day summit Tuesday on combating violent extremism on social media — but the administration won’t focus on Islamic extremism and won’t even mention the term.President Obama will speak twice at the summit.
“You can call them what you want; we’re calling them terrorists,” a senior Obama administration official said Monday….
“There is absolutely no justification for any of these attacks in any religion, and that’s the view of the vast majority of Muslims who have suffered huge casualties from the likes of [ISIS] or al Qaeda,” the official told reporters. “We are not treating these people as part of a religion. We’re treating them as terrorists.”
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