Obama says US not at war with Islam, but with those 'who perverted religion'

United States President Barack Obama has reportedly said that the U.S. is not at war with Islam but with those "who have perverted Islam."

While addressing representatives from 60 countries during a three-day event on extremism, organised in the wake of terror attacks in Demark and France, Obama asserted that the world had to "confront the ideologies that radicalise people," reported the BBC.

He added that the leaders of groups like the Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda were not religious leaders but terrorists.

Obama remarked that associating terror outfits like, the IS and Al Qaeda, with Islam would be equivalent to "buying into the propaganda of those groups," challenging critics who questioned him for not describing recent attacks as the work of "Islamic radicals.