President Obama’s recent comments about terrible deeds committed by Christians throughout history during comments about ISIS has led to a backlash from the American church community.

Obama made the comments at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday, according to a Christian Science Monitor report, as the president questioned how much a religion should be blamed for the extremism seen by the so-called Islamic State. Although Obama meant to illustrate that all religions have individuals who can take things too far, the comments enraged many Americans who felt that the comparison didn’t make any sense and was inflammatory.

Obama began by calling ISIS a “vicious death cult,” but then said that rather than “get on our high horse and this this is unique to some other place,” people should be reminded of the Crusades and the Inquisition, and how people did terrible things in the name of Christ. He also pointed out Jim Crow laws in the South and how blacks were treated in the name of Christ.

His point was essentially that Islam at its core isn’t necessarily anymore violent than Christianity, and that extremists can often make the larger group look bad.

But the backlash Obama is getting may indicate that many see the effort against ISIS as almost a religious war, and that the terrorist group has arrived at a standard Muslim interpretation of the Koran, according to the report.

There were others who accused Obama of being insensitive to those who had suffered violene at the hands of ISIS.

It has also fueled more speculation by his far-right opponents that he is secretly a Muslim and not a Christian, as he has long claimed to be.

Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, a Republican, said that Obama’s remarks “offended every believing Christian in the United States,” and shows that Obama “does not believe in America or the values we all share.”