Obama added that terrorists’ methods have evolved since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
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Malik came to the USA on a K-1 visa, known as a “fiancée visa”, when she moved to the United States to marry Syed Farook, her husband and accomplice in the massacre in the Southern California city last week.
And on this front, GOP White House hopefuls are having some trouble.
“There is a lot of suspicion of the Federal Bureau of Investigation here”, said Kamel, an immigrant from Egypt who came to the USA 13 years ago.
“In no country surveyed did more than 15 percent of the population show favorable attitudes toward Islamic State”. He said most Muslim leaders condemn the acts of ISIS and he agrees there should be improvements in the background check process for people trying to get into America to help prevent more attacks.
At the Islamic Institute of Orange County in Anaheim, the mosque’s imam, Mohammed Faqih, said he also found Obama’s comments offensive.
One of the striking things about this speech was that Obama tried to reassure Americans, while also talking tough against terrorism, Brands says.
The representative said tech companies need to work together in order to to develop a “clearer understanding of when we believe social media is being used actively and operationally to promote terrorism”.
He is right but, that said, the tone of his speech reflected increasing concern about the direction the war might take if fear and panic in an election year feed into domestic and foreign policymaking. It’s our responsibility to reject proposals that Muslim-Americans should somehow be treated differently.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump must have regretted his tweet when, on Monday, he asked the current USA president Barack Obama about the American-Muslim sports heroes that the latter mentioned in his speech.
“This was an act of terrorism created to kill innocent people”, Obama said of the attack.
But he had also made another appeal, this one to Muslim communities. This is a matter of national security, ” he said. In the midst of this tragic event, Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders turned political, calling for more gun control. Instead, we will prevail by being strong and smart, resilient and relentless. On the California shooters, Obama said “the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalisation”.
“I’m not saying so called Muslims have not committed horrific acts or violence against Christians or other people in other countries”, Washington said.
Obama says the killers had stockpiled weapons and ammunition.
But in September, an American general admitted, the USA had trained only perhaps five Syrian opposition forces and it’s still an open question whether Arab allies in the region will send more effective ground forces.
For only the third time in his presidency, Obama delivered his remarks from the Oval Office.
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Obama is scheduled to speak to the nation at 8 p.m. EST. The recent string of terror attacks – the Russian airliner blown out of the sky over Egypt, the Beirut bombing, and the attacks in Paris, Mali, and now San Bernardino – prove that ISIS is neither a “JV team” nor contained.
