Eric Holder: We’re at War with ‘Those Who Would Corrupt the Islamic Faith’

Eric Holder claims no ‘credible information’ to determine responsibility for Paris attacks.

While French prime minister Manuel Valls declared yesterday that in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, France is engaged in a “war against terror and radical Islam,” Attorney General Eric Holder does not see the conflict in exactly those terms.

George Stephanopolous asked Holder on This Week Sunday morning if he agreed with Valls’ statement: “Is the U.S. at war with radical Islam?”

“Well, I certainly think that we are at war with those who would commit terrorist attacks and who would corrupt the Islamic faith in the way that they do, to try to justify their terrorist actions,” Holder responded.

“So that’s who we are at — at war with,” he added, noting the U.S. is determined “to take the fight to them to prevent them from engaging in these kinds of activities.”

Holder said that President Obama plans to convene a summit in February to “counter violent extremism” and this “terrorist ideology.”

2 comments

  • The Obama administration didn’t send anyone to this meeting of leaders, with 3 million people attending. That says they are more in support of Islamic radicals than they are of Jews in Paris, or elsewhere in the world. Josh Earnest just gave all kinds of excuses, but Holder was already there with security.

  • President William Martin

    He gets me sick.

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