Obama & Ban Ki-Moon On How To Fight Terror/ISIS
President Obama told a summit with representatives from 65 countries that the entire world has a role to play in countering the ideology peddled by terrorist groups. "We have to confront the warped ideologies espoused by terrorists like ISIL," Mr. Obama said, using an alternate acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). "These terrorists are desperate for legitimacy, and all of us have a responsibility to refute the notion that groups like ISIL somehow represent Islam because that is a falsehood that embraces the terrorist narrative." In his remarks, which were delivered on the closing day of a summit on violent extremism, Mr. Obama said that while there is a "complicated history" between the Middle East and the West, this is not a clash of civilizations. "The notion that the west is at war with Islam is an ugly lie," he said.
Obama: Notion That West At War With Islam An "ugly Lie"
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