“Where does this stop?”
President Barack Obama asked the question during a speech from Washington, D.C. on Thursday that was billed as an update on the fight against ISIS but turned into a speech about the future of the United States.
Obama forcefully critiqued the heated rhetoric targeting immigrants and Muslims in the wake of the killing of 49 people at a gay nightclub on Sunday by Omar Mateen, an American Muslim of Afghan descent. In particular, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has reiterated his calls for a ban on Muslim immigrants coming to the United States and suggested that the American Muslim community has been complicit in the violence. Read more…
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