Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam - sources
Source: Reuters
The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters. The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," or CVE, would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," the sources said, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States.
Such a change would reflect Trump's election campaign rhetoric and criticism of former President Barack Obama for being weak in the fight against Islamic State and for refusing to use the phrase "radical Islam" in describing it. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for attacks on civilians in several countries.
The CVE program aims to deter groups or potential lone attackers through community partnerships and educational programs or counter-messaging campaigns in cooperation with companies such as Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook (FB.O).
Some proponents of the program fear that rebranding it could make it more difficult for the government to work with Muslims already hesitant to trust the new administration, particularly after Trump issued an executive order last Friday temporarily blocking travel to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-extremists-program-exclusiv-idUSKBN15G5VO?il=0
Cattledog
(5,914 posts)blm
(113,052 posts).
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Maxims
"Terror must be broken by terror." (German: Terror kann nur durch Terror gebrochen werden.)[35] (tRump wants to waterboard)
"All opposition must be stamped into the ground." (German: Alle Opposition muß dem Boden gestampft werden.)[35]
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)you're good to go......look for the batshit white supremacists to take this as permission to plunder, and betting KKK will be glad to join them.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Even I thought about getting a CCW a couple times.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Turbineguy
(37,322 posts)You get anywhere near stepping on Wayne LaPierre's toes and you are toast!
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Calling all heavily armed mentally ill people, anti-government paranoiacs, and all those Good Christian White Domestic Terrorists. We've got your back! Go blow up some liberals. Go blow up some hypen-Americans. Have fun!