President Barack Obama said the increasingly rancorous U.S. debate on Syrian refugees feeds Islamic State propaganda that the U.S. and its European allies are at war with the Muslim world. For the second time this week, Obama lashed out at lawmakers and U.S. governors, most of them Republicans, who are pushing to block the administration from allowing 10,000 Syrian refugees to resettle in the country. “I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric that’s been coming out of here during the course of this debate,’’ Obama said at a news conference Wednesday morning in the Philippines, using an acronym for the extremist group blamed for the terrorist attack...
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