Americans have been rightly impressed by the “amazing contrast” between the statements on the ISIS threat delivered by President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron. While Cameron has been much more forthright on the threat posed by Islamic extremists, he too has been careful to distinguish between “Islam” and “extremism.”
President Obama confounded and outraged many in his speech to the nation Wednesday by declaring that “ISIL is not ‘Islamic.'” Prime Minister Cameron today, in a statement on the beheading of David Haines, echoed Obama by declaring that ISIS “claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is nonsense. Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims. They are monsters.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron on ISIS: "They are not Muslims, they are monsters." http://t.co/a3i8zpXU3i pic.twitter.com/bim4SUG0yr
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 14, 2014
ISIS are not Muslims, huh?
https://twitter.com/max_normal_/status/511116132418609152
https://twitter.com/DavidJo52951945/status/511116365592555520
U 2 confused? Cameron: IS not muslim. Obama: IS not muslim. A 7th century prophet had people beheaded so he can't be muslim. I am confused.
— Leon de Winter (@leondewinter) September 14, 2014
https://twitter.com/AFrankWords/status/511154994276757504
@David_Cameron The Prime Minister of Londanistan today said #ISIS members are not muslims, they're monsters"
yeah he said it #WEAKNESS
— ✭ Wayne Dupree ✭ (@WayneDupreeShow) September 14, 2014
Find the expert on Islam:
Barack Obama (JD Harvard)
David Cameron (BA Oxford)
ISIS head Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi (PhD Islamic Theology U Baghdad)— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 14, 2014
https://twitter.com/ranty_man/status/511172465892945920
Oh no, @David_Cameron is another expert on Islam “IS militants "are not Muslims, they are monsters,”” what, shock horror, if they’re both?
— ??Dr BrianofLondon.me (@brianoflondon) September 14, 2014
"Isis are not Muslims, they are monsters" – @David_Cameron. "Yes" to the second part, "stop being a sniveling coward" to the first.
— Lucy Wainwright (@Whoozley) September 14, 2014
Cameron has the balls to call ISIS evil He is still claiming that they R not Muslim Where R Muslim protests over these beheadings?#tcot
— Iron Fist (@IronFist232) September 14, 2014
Cameron says Haines killers are monsters not Muslims. No, they are monsters AND Muslims. We cannot continue in this denial. @David_Cameron
— Robert (@Roberthastosay) September 14, 2014
With this sort of talk, it’s sadly becoming more and more difficult to distinguish between Obama and Cameron. Then again, after news of an ISIS beheading, you can generally find one at the golf course.
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