President Obama said tonight that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is not Islamic. According to several Twitter users, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Fox News host Sean Hannity he agrees.
https://twitter.com/exposeliberals/status/509886722193096704
Rand Paul defends President Obama's "ISIL is not Islamic" comments. "I think he has a point…civilized Islam will need to step up," he says
— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist) September 11, 2014
Rand Paul defends what Obama was saying about #ISIS not being Islamic
— Chris Donovan (@chrisdonovan) September 11, 2014
Obama: ISIS isn't Islam.
Rand Paul: I agree with Obama.
WHOA
— Laura McGinnis (@TxsleuthUSA) September 11, 2014
Paul also argued that the rise of ISIS was the fault of the United States, according to several Twitter users who viewed the Hannity segment:
https://twitter.com/Couranto/status/509887460781068288
Rand Paul supports taking out ISIS but says problem caused by taking out Saddam, Gaddafi, etc. Hannity: You're saying "We created this."
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) September 11, 2014
Twitchy has not yet confirmed that Paul made the comments attributed to him above. We will post video of Paul’s comments as soon as we are able to obtain it.
Update:
Here’s the video: