Via CNS News:
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama blamed the media Thursday in a speech as part of the White House Summit to Counter Violent Extremism for offering a “distorted impression” of Islam.
“In some of our countries, including the United States, Muslim communities are still small and relative to the entire population, and as a result, many people in our countries don’t always know personally somebody who is Muslim. So the image they get of Muslims or Islam is in the news, and given the existing news cycle, that can give a very distorted impression,” he said.
Obama called it “a painful truth that’s part of the challenge that brings us here today.”
“A lot of the bad, like terrorists who claim to speak for Islam, that’s absorbed by the general population,” he said, adding that there’s “not enough of the good.”
“The world hears a lot about the terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo in Paris, but the world has to also remember the Paris police officer – a Muslim, who died trying to stop them,” Obama said.