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Kathleen Rice: “The words we use do matter; calling for a complete and total ban on Muslims entering the United States or going out of…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2017
The words we use do matter; calling for a complete and total ban on Muslims entering the United States or going out of your way to call it radical Islamic terrorism, those words play right into our enemies' hands and do nothing to help our counterterrorism efforts.
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Kathleen Rice
Democratic · New York

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Rice criticizes the use of inflammatory language that aids terrorist narratives.

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