Power: To Blame All Muslims for Terrorism ‘Is a Gift to ISIL’

‘We don’t need to trade in that kind of thinking’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

POWER: "I always spoke about being an immigrant to myself, being an Irish immigrant, coming from a country when I came to the United States in 1979, multiple terrorist attacks carried out in the town in which I lived. If that were enough to band me from this country or to ban the Irish, I wouldn't have the privilege and certainly wouldn't be representing the United States of America. All of one group, you know, carries the sins of a single individual, it's a tendency to apply and lately, its been something that's not only not true to our values and something I think again later we would be embarrassed by if we acted upon it, but it's also not in our interest, it's a gift to ISIL and to terrorist groups who themselves think in terms of collective guilt." 

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