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Keith Ellison: If I were to say the words radical Islamist terrorists, it wouldn't stop--it wouldn't make ISIS vanish.

On the recordSeptember 21, 2016
If I were to say the words radical Islamist terrorists, it wouldn't stop--it wouldn't make ISIS vanish.
Said by
Keith Ellison
Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Argues that naming terrorists doesn't eliminate the threat they pose.

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