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Adam Smith: “There was a reluctance to use any Islam, Islamist, Islamic, anything that sort of gave our enemy the title of being…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2015
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.
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Adam Smith
Democratic · Washington

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

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