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Obama Links Jihad To Global Warming And Second Amendment

Robert Kraychik
Obama Links Jihad To Global Warming And Second Amendment
US President Barack Obama greets service members after speaking at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida on December 6, 2016. / AFP / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

President Barack Obama linked “climate change” and the Second Amendment to the threat of Islamic terrorism – which he described as “violent extremism” – during a Tuesday address at Macdill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL.

Obama claimed that Islamic terrorism was partly driven by food and water scarcity brought about by anthropogenic global warming. “A changing climate is increasing competition for food and water,” he said of Syria and other Muslim-majority and conflict-ridden failed states.

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