Rep. Adam Schiff: Obama Is Right To Avoid Launching a ‘War on Islam’

MITCHELL: “Congressman, thanks very much. There’s been a lot of criticism, a lot of pushback against the administration for the way it is laying out the summit, pointing out that it’s not focusing enough on what is really happening in the field on ISIS, trying perhaps too hard to avoid identifying this as only Islamic extremism, trying to look so broadly that it is missing the point.”

SCHIFF: “You know, I hear this argument made over and over again, but I don’t find it very compelling. What the president is trying to do is not to frame this as a war on Islam. If that’s the way people perceive this, I think it would have disastrous consequences. So, yes, he needs to talk about it and is talking about how someone would pervert the faith of Islam, but this isn’t a fight between religions or western civilization and Islam. I think that’s a point that he really has to underscore. So I understand people are piling on the president about this, but frankly I don’t think that argument is very weighty."