Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.
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We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren.
We are in a conflict, whether we like it or not. I think we have to identify the enemy and call it by its name. And the enemy is an ideology rooted in militant Islam.
The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.
Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.
The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.
We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.
This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.
We are not at war against Islam.