Adam Smith actually said...

There was a reluctance to use any Islam, Islamist, Islamic, anything that sort of gave our enemy the title of being affiliated with the Muslim religion.

Context

Smith discusses past administrations' hesitance to label ISIS as Islamic.

11/17/2015

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