Obama: We Must Confront 'Twisted Ideologies' That Spawn Violence | NBC - UpDate: Full Speech Video

[Fred Sanders]

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Source: NBC News

President Barack Obama on Wednesday said that the world is at war with those who have "perverted Islam," and stressed the importance of reaching out to young people most at risk of being recruited by radical groups.

"No religion is responsible for terrorism, people are responsible for violence and terrorism," Obama said during a summit on on countering the spread of violent radicalism.

"We are not at war with Islam," Obama said. "We are at war with people who have perverted Islam."

Leaders from 60 different countries traveled to Washington for the summit, which focused on working with local communities to identify youth most at risk of falling prey to terrorist propaganda.

The president warned that terror groups are often effective in enticing poor or uneducated Muslims with a good salary and "twisted" interpretations of their religious beliefs.

The gathering comes shortly after terror attacks in Copenhagen and Paris and as ISIS expands its reach beyond the Middle East. Terror groups have rapidly improved their online and social media presence, and ISIS has successfully recruited American citizens.

"Terrorist groups like al Qaeda and [ISIS] deliberately target their propaganda in the hopes of reaching and brainwashing young Muslims, "Obama said. "Especially those who may be disillusioned or wrestling with their own identity."

Obama said that parents, teachers and faith leaders play a key role in preventing terrorist groups from penetrating into local communities. They are usually the first to notice signs that someone is beginning to adopt radical religious beliefs.

Part of Obama's plan also includes increasing law enforcement outreach to Muslim Americans.
"Engagement with communities can't be a cover for surveillance," Obama said.

Throughout his remarks, the president stressed that no one religion or set of beliefs is responsible for terrorism.

"They are not religious leaders, they are terrorists," Obama said of ISIS and al Qaeda.


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A game changer speech.

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Obama speaks to YOU directly.....so why would anyone want to hear what their President said....from someone else, someone else as untrustworthy as mass or cable media? Why?

Here it is:

Video report on Extremism Summit:

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4. Plenty of these guys to go around:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/17/man-stabs-two-at-a-bus-stop-after-asking-them-if-theyre-muslim/


"Both of the victims were standing at the bus stop outside of Detroit with the suspect on Saturday, Southfield Police Chief Eric Hawkins said. Several people there “engaged in conversation” until the suspect, identified by Hawkins as 39-year-old Terrence Lavaron Thomas, “asked some of the folks there if they were Muslims.”

Two of them answered, the chief told The Post on Tuesday: They were not Muslims.

Thomas “was not not happy with that answer,” Hawkins said. Shortly after, “without provocation,” Thomas pulled out a 3-inch folding knife “and attacked one of them,” Hawkins said."

[AngryAmish]

2. Perverted Islam would do well as a series of pornos.

I'm just sayin'.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Don't say anything else.

[Demeter]

5. If Obama wants to address "twisted ideologies"

he'd better do it equally and fairly.

Otherwise, he's better off leaving it to the leaders of each religion.

[Fred Sanders]

6. This is NBC reporting, don't forget....watch the entire speech for context and completeness.

How about we all spend some time on solutions and responses and stop the strange media obsession with labels?

What do we do about the murderers and major league criminals of ISIS? Do we all have to agree on a label first?

[Ed Suspicious]

7. Like those espoused by the republican party?

[uppityperson]

8. "We are at war with people who have perverted " pick your religion or political party

[Fred Sanders]

9. What? What if pick I Hinduism?

[uppityperson]

10. If they perverted it, sure.

someone always has to nitpick rather than addressing the issue. I probably spelled something wrong also.

[Igel]

15. Why not?

There were instances of Hinduism-related violence a number of years ago over the (re)construction of a mosque on a (supposedly) sacred Hindu site.

One could say that WWII was just perverted fascism. It's an ideology, and we can't blame the ideology for violence done by people. Even Stalin's socialism or the KKK's philosophy was, at its heart, kind and gentle, one must assume. Same for the violence in Ferguson. The Crusades? Perverted religion.

Sort of confuses a minor little fact: Ideologies and religions are like languages. They don't really exist except in the minds of those who bear them and the acts and deeds of those who practice them. When we hear tell of a complete abstraction completely separated from humans we should stop and think that it's a generalization, just an abstraction, a kind of Platonic Form.

[Fred Sanders]

11. HERE IT IS. The media and Republicans worst nightmare...Obama Unfiltered..worth every second...

The smartest and most honest and transparent President, ever. America and the world will remember Obama for a very long time.

In a good way.

[freshwest]

14. +1.

[Skittles]

12. is he talking about the gun lobby?

[Fumesucker]

13. That's just bidness

[Taitertots]

16. Capitalists?

Oh, I forgot that this is America. We can't insult capitalists, no matter how much destruction they cause.