Human rights attorney Brooke Goldstein said that President Obama's claim that "ISIL is not Islamic" crossed the line.
"Here we have the president of the United States preaching to the world what Islam is and what Islam Isn't," Goldstein told Fox News host Megyn Kelly. "I find it quite presumptuous for a non-Muslim to be dictating who is a real Muslim and who isn't."
Goldstein, who serves as the director of the New York-based Lawfare Project, said the need to recognize that the strain of Islam that encourages its adherents to kill unbelievers is a national security threat to the United States.
"The president crossed a line when he started preaching to the world about what Islam is," Goldstein said. "The president is not an authority on religion, and nor should he be. And it is not his job to go into that black hole, that energy vampire of debating what Islam is. That is a job for theologians and that is the job for Muslims to debate."
