Fox Host Confronts State Dept. Spox: Why Won’t WH Admit Radical Islam Is Biggest Threat?

Kelly File guest host Martha MacCallum confronted State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf about why the White House won’t openly say that radical Islam specifically is a major threat to the world. Eric Holder was asked twice yesterday if the U.S. is at war with radical Islam; both times he didn’t bite.

Harf told MacCallum tonight that Islamic extremism is “not the only kind of extremism we face,” though when pressed to name other examples of troubling extremism, she simply said people all over the world want to kill each other for a “variety of causes.”

MacCallum repeatedly told Harf there is a “common thread” in terrorist attacks all over the world that the administration appears to have some reluctance admitting. Harf called that viewpoint “overly simplistic” and argued there are different groups all over the world the U.S. has to combat differently.

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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