CIA Director: ISIS Not Islamic, They’re ‘Psychopathic Thugs’

CIA Director John Brennan today stood by the Obama administration’s decision not to refer to ISIS as “Islamic extremists.” He echoed President Obama in saying the U.S. shouldn’t be giving the terrorist group “legitimacy.”

He called what ISIS is doing “inconsistent” with how many other Muslims view their faith, and said they’re more like terrorists, criminals, and “psychopathic thugs.”

Brennan argued that using words like “Islamic” to describe terrorists have resonance and it “does injustice to the tenets of religion when we attach a religious moniker to them.”

Watch the video below:

[h/t TIME]
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