Angus King: Calling Terror Attacks ‘Islamic Terrorism’ Will ‘Only Inflame Tensions’

KING: "Well, the problem is, Chris, that simple answers to complicated questions are usually wrong. In this case, it appears that, number one, we don’t really know the facts. It’s premature to come to a conclusion. But number two, it appears that that the attack in Turkey on the Russian ambassador wasn’t a religious attack but was a political one, revenge for what’s going on in Aleppo, which by the way is going to generate a generation of hatred and resentment and probably violence. It’s one of the great war crimes that’s been committed in our lifetime. So to say they’re both Islamic jihadist attacks, I just don’t think is correct factually. The one in Berlin, yes, that appears to be. The one in Zurich was an attack on a mosque. So that’s a — it’s a complicated situation. Just to say it’s all Islamic terrorism, I think, is, a) not the correct answer, as I said, and, b) will only enflame tensions and could conceivably make them worse."