At this week's summit on combating violent extremists, President Barack Obama hopes to concoct ways to battle a threat made newly relevant by attacks in Western Europe, Canada and Australia.
But in planning and describing the event, starting Tuesday in Washington, the White House has consistently avoided naming Islamic extremism as its central focus, and officials say the meeting isn't meant to cover only the threats posed by the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria.
Extremists drawn to terrorism "come in all sorts of shapes and sizes," one senior administration official said on Monday, adding the U.S. regards the perpetrators of recent attacks in France and Denmark as terrorists, not members of a particular religion.
"We call them our enemies and we'll be treating them as such," said the official.
The refusal to name Islamic extremism as the central threat has drawn anger from Republicans and confusion from some terrorism experts who say the threat from Muslim-aligned radicals should be addressed directly.
This article makes me feel embarrassed. To be honest, I agree with Obama. Not all Islamists are on the side of ISIS. If we include them in this, we lose their support and can cause a lot of conflict. This reminds me of many other times in history where a president was given a lot of hate of a minor thing they did. In fact, this happens A LOT to Obama.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/17/politics/isis-obama-extremism-summit/index.html
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