Obama: 'Terrorist threat has evolved into a new phase' - Thehill

President Obama used a rare Oval Office address on Sunday night to try to calm the nation's fears about the threat posed by Islamic extremist groups in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and California.

Speaking at a lectern in front of his desk, Obama detailed his administration's efforts to curb an evolving terror threat while urging the public not to give into fear or resort to Islamophobia.
Obama acknowledged that Americans' anxiousness spiked following last week's mass shooting at an office holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif., which he called an "act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people" that was inspired, but not ordered, by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL).

“The terrorist threat has evolved into a new phase,” Obama said. “I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure. The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it.”

“The terrorist threat has evolved into a new phase,” Obama said. “I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure. The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it.”

Obama cautioned Americans against singling out Muslims, arguing that framing the fight against ISIS as a war between Islam and the West feeds in the terror network's propaganda. He called ISIS a group of "thugs" and "killers" that represents just a "tiny fraction" of the Muslim population worldwide. - Read More at thehill

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