Hillary Clinton won’t describe Islamic State as ‘Islamic’

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Hillary Clinton used a lot of adjectives to describe the Islamic State terrorist group during Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate, but “Islamic” was not one of them.

A day after a wave of terrorist attacks believed to be carried out by the Islamic State rocked Paris, Clinton refused to identify the terrorist group — or any terrorist groups — as Islamic, arguing that mentioning the religion of terrorist groups alienates Muslim countries.

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