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On the recordSeptember 21, 2016
You will hear the absurd and, I am sorry to say, un-American pleas for you to invoke blasphemy speech restrictions upon yourselves in the discourse in order to dishonestly avoid terms like Islamism, Islamist, Ummah, takfir, Islamic State, jihad, Salafism, Wahhabism.
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Peter King
Republican · New York

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Criticism of calls to avoid discussing radical Islamic terms.

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