AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - CNN's Abby Phillip equates denouncing Islamism with treating Islam as a slur
CNN host Abby Phillip told panelists that criticizing "Islamism" amounts to turning "an entire religion" into a slur, a claim her own guests rejected on air as a fundamental misreading of a term used in national-security debates for decades. The exchange erupted on CNN's "NewsNight" after the show aired a video clip of Sen. Ted […] The post CNN's Abby Phillip equates denouncing Islamism with treating Islam as a slur appeared first on American Almanac .
CNN host Abby Phillip told panelists that criticizing "Islamism" amounts to turning "an entire religion" into a slur, a claim her own guests rejected on air as a fundamental misreading of a term used in national-security debates for decades. The exchange erupted on CNN's "NewsNight" after the show aired a video clip of Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican, delivering pointed remarks about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Cruz described what he called a "new and dangerous red-green alliance" of "Communists and Islamists" that he said was "sweeping over the Democrat Party." He listed their shared targets: "They hate Christians, they hate Jews, they hate capitalism, they hate the Constitution, and they hate America." Phillip's response…Open