Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin lashed out at President Obama on Thursday, claiming that the United States and the "genocidal thugs" affiliated with the Islamic State can never coexist.
At the National Prayer Breakfast in February, Obama's remarks about terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the ISIS not being connected to the Islamic faith and how radical Islamists shouldn't be labeled as terrorists grabbed national headlines.
But what became the source of much media debate was when the president stated that Christians were also responsible for carrying out similar violent acts.
"Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," Obama said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."
"So it is not unique to one group or one religion," Obama added. "There is a tendency in us, a simple tendency that can pervert and distort our faith."
On Thursday, Palin claimed that Obama's lectures "won't stop the Islamists from killing the Christians," Breitbart reported.
"While Christians bow our head to pray for you, radical Islamists want to cut off your head," she said of the president.
"Aside from God almighty, the only force that can keep 'barbaric' terrorists at bay and the only thing standing between us and savages is the red, white and blue. It's the United States military," she said at the Conservative Political Action Conference, held a few miles outside of Washington, D.C., at a hotel in Maryland.
The U.S. is in a "long-term, civilization struggle against the forces of evil." And "if we intend to beat them, we better get serious about victory," she said.
"In the past our leaders confronted evil with moral clarity, eliminating Fascists and the Nazis" as well as Communists, she said. "Make no mistake, radical Islam is just as dangerous as those ideologies."
Describing Obama's State Department as "naïve," Palin mocked the president for continuing to "lead from behind" even after Islamic extremists threatened to cut off his head in the White House, according to UK MailOnline.
"He thinks the Islamic state isn't really Islamic," she continued. "Pretending it's not there doesn't make it go away. Calling it something else won't make it so."
"The world that they want is a world that will submit. We will never submit to evil," she said.
