Apparently he is feeling the heat over his new policy of ignoring the threat that faces us. But it is doubtful that this mention of “radical Islam” will lead to any lasting or actual change. “Obama Departs from Revised Policy, Links ‘Radical Islam’ to Terror Groups,” from FoxNews.com, July 14:
In a rare divergence from administration policy, President Obama used the term “radical Islam” to describe the African-based terror group that took credit Monday for killing 74 people in Uganda during an interview Tuesday with the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
The interview came just three months after the administration removed such religious terms from its national security playbook and two months after Attorney General Eric Holder hesitated to link “radical Islam” to recent terror attacks and plots in the U.S. during questioning at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
When asked about opinions attributing radical Islam’s impact on the development and stability on the African continent, Obama called Islam “a great religion,” but added that the radical version views as anti-Islam “any efforts to modernize, any efforts to provide basic human rights, any efforts to democratize.”
“And I think that is absolutely wrong,” he said. “I think the vast majority of people of the Islamic faith reject that. I think the people of Africa reject it.”
Obama also accused terror groups such as Al Qaeda an Al Shabab of being racist.
“What you’ve seen in some of the statements that have been made by these terrorist organizations is that they do not regard African life as valuable in and of itself,” he said. “They see it as a potential place where you can carry out ideological battles that kill innocents without regard to long-term consequences for their short-term tactical gains.”…