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An acid-tongued Hillary Clinton ripped into conservatives on Thursday for what she said was an 'obsession in some quarters' with the notion that the global spread of terrorism is a byproduct of the Muslim faith, denying that the two are connected in any way.
'Islam itself is not our adversary,' the former secretary of state said during a campaign speech outlining her foreign policy objectives. 'Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.'
Reading her speech at a brisk clip from a teleprompter at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, she slowed momentarily to mock three words – 'radical Islamic terrorism' – that Republicans often accuse President Barack Obama of purposefully avoiding.