Speaking in Malaysia at a summit of Southeast Asian nations, President Obama said prejudice and discrimination would only aid the Islamic State—which he pledged to “hunt down” and “destroy.”

President Obama: “Even as we destroy ISIL on the battlefield—and we will destroy them: We will take back land that they are currently in, we will cut off their financing, we will hunt down their leadership, we will dismantle their networks and their supply lines, and we will ultimately destroy them. Even as we are in the process of doing that, we want to make sure that we don’t lose our own values and our own principles.”