Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” when asked why the administration is refusing to use the term “radical Islam,” White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said, “Lets be clear nobody denies these are Muslims. And these Muslim who claim their warped view of their ideology is what informed their actions. Thier hateful ideology in this instance. What we simply do not beleive is they should somehow be seen as representatives of Islam. They do not. It is one of the world’s great religions.”

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