 Told her he thinks the controversy is ‘manufactured’ and doesn’t want the religion of Islam equated with terrorism‘Do I think that if somebody uses the phrase Islamic terrorism that it’s a huge deal? No,’ he said‘There’s no doubt that these folks think…they’re speaking for Islam. But I don’t want to validate what they do’President Barack Obama still won’t call radicals Islamists because he says he doesn’t want to ‘validate’ their claims that they’re speaking for the Muslim religion.
Confronted Wednesday by Gold Star mother Tina Houchins, whose 19-year-old son died in Iraq before he took office, Obama told her the issue ‘has been sort of manufactured.’
‘I’ve said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death,’ he told the woman, questioning him at a townhall put on by CNN.
Then, making an obvious reference to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Obama lambasted ‘people aspiring…to become president’ talking ‘about Muslim-Americans here and the notion that somehow we’d start having religious tests.’
‘You were clearly talking about the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, just then,’ said moderator Jake Tapper, interrupting him.
A defiant Obama replied, ‘No, I wasn’t.’Confronted Wednesday by Gold Star mother Tina Houchins whose 19-year-old son died in Iraq before he took office Obama told her the controversy over his refusal to say radical Islamic terrorism ‘has been sort of manufactured’
Making an obvious reference to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Obama lambasted ‘people aspiring…to become president’ talking ‘about Muslim-Americans here and the notion that somehow we’d start having religious tests’
‘You were clearly talking about the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, just then,’ said moderator Jake Tapper, interrupting him. A defiant Obama replied, ‘No, I wasn’t’
Obama insisted that he wasn’t talking about Trump – the only candidate still in the race who has proposed a religious test for entry into the country – because that position is ‘not unique to the Republican nominee.’
‘And, again…I’m trying to be careful. We’re on a military base,’ he said. ‘I don’t want to insert partisan politics into this.’
Houchins’ son, Aaron Goteer, was killed in Baghdad in 2007.
She said to Obama at the townhall, ‘As a Gold Star mother, my son gave his life for acts of terrorism. Do you still believe that the acts of terrorism are done for the self-proclaimed Islamic religious motive? And if you do, why do you still refuse to use the term racially, I’m sorry, Islamic terrorist?’
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