White House: Bush also refused to say ‘radical Islam’

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The Obama administration is following its predecessor’s lead in refusing to say terrorist acts committed by Muslims are acts of “radical Islam,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Monday.

The administration of President George W. Bush also went “to great lengths to debunk that myth and to make clear that these organizations are seeking to perpetuate a perverted version of Islam,” Earnest said.

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