Beinart on CNN: 'Dangerous' To Use 'Ill-Defined' Term 'Radical Islam'

Matthew Balan | May 20, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

The Atlantic's Peter Beinart ripped Donald Trump on the 19 May 2016 edition of CNN's AC360 over his repeated use of the phrase "radical Islam" to attack Hillary Clinton. When Trump supporter Kayleigh McEnany defended the billionaire for this criticism, Beinart retored, "If you're talking about ISIS, we know what that is. If you're talking about radical Islam, I don't think, with all due respect, you have any idea what that is....the Saudi government...is a regime that is based on sharia; the regime in Pakistan has elements...the point is, it's a completely ill-defined term; and that's what makes it dangerous."

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