Al-Qaeda, Daesh out to change Americans? lifestyle: Obama
 

Addresses 9/11 memorial service at Pentagon; urges people to embrace
nation’s diversity and **t to allow terrorists to divide country

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Sunday said that al-Qaeda and Islamic State (Daesh) were out to change the Americans’ lifestyle.

He urged Americans on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to embrace the nation’s diversity and **t to allow “terrorists” to divide the country.“Extremist organisations like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group (Daesh) “k**w that they will never be able to defeat a nation as great and as strong as America,” Obama said at a memorial service at the Pentagon, one of the sites attacked on September 11, 2001.

“So instead they try to terrorise, in the hope that they can stoke e**ugh fear that we turn on each other,” said Obama, who observed a moment of silence on Sunday at the Oval ****** in ho**r of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day.

“And that’s why it is so important today that we reaffirm our character as a nation (...) our diversity, our *****work heritage, is **t a weakness. It is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths,” he added.

“This is the America that was attacked that September morning. This is the America that we must remain true to.”

In an indirect reference to the controversial anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant campaign rhetoric of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Obama recalled that Americans were “a people drawn from every corner of the world, every colour, every religion, every background.”

Obama, who is a Democrat, has repeatedly criticised Trump’s statements, including the billionaire’s proposal in thewake of last December’s mass shooting attack in San Bernardi**, California to ban the Muslims from entering the United States.

In the 15 years since the al-Qaeda suicide plane strikes on the Pentagon, New York’s World Trade Center, and in Pennsylvania, “the threat has evolved,” the president said.“With our stronger defences, terrorists often attempt attacks on a smaller but still deadly scale,” he added, recalling the Boston marathon bombings, the nightclub massacre in Orlando in June and the carnage in San Bernardi**.



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