Barack Obama: “ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents.”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2014

ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents.

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Address to the Nation on United States Strategy To Combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Terrorist Organization

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