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White House announces Summit on Countering Violent Extremism

Jan 12, 2015 11:53 am By Robert Spencer

Josh EarnestThis is just yet more absurdity, and will prove to be an absolutely fruitless and pointless exercise. How can Obama hope to counter “violent extremism” when he doesn’t even dare name what kind of extremism it is? On the other hand, he may focus this summit on “right-wing extremists” and formulate new ways to restrict the freedom of speech and stifle voices of opposition to jihad terror and Islamic supremacism. In that case, it could be very fruitful indeed.

“White House sets delayed anti-extremism summit,” by Josh Gerstein, Politico, January 11, 2015:

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, the White House has scheduled an anti-extremism conference that was originally set for last October but was postponed without explanation.

In a statement issued as many world leaders gathered in the French capital Sunday to express solidarity with France and to vow renewed efforts to fight violent Islamic radicalism, the White House announced that its summit on the issue of homegrown terrorism will take place next month.

“On February 18, 2015, the White House will host a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism to highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting, or inspiring individuals or groups in the United States and abroad to commit acts of violence, efforts made even more imperative in light of recent, tragic attacks in Ottawa, Sydney, and Paris,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement.

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson first announced the summit in September, as concern was growing about the threat posed by the Islamic State movement and by that group’s recruitment of fighters in the West. Johnson said the high-level meeting would take place the following month.

However, it did not. In the lead-up to the midterm elections, White House spokesmen repeatedly refused to discuss the reason for the delay or even to confirm on the record that it had been postponed.

Last week’s shooting rampage at a satirical French weekly and hostage-takings at two other sites in Paris refocused attention on the danger of so-called homegrown extremists carrying out attacks far from the places in the Middle East and Africa where such violence is more common.

Earnest said Sunday that the conference would address efforts being taken in the U.S., as well as promoting cooperation with similar work abroad.

“Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) efforts rely heavily on well-informed and resilient local communities. Boston, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis-St. Paul have taken the lead in building pilot frameworks integrating a range of social service providers, including education administrators, mental health professionals, and religious leaders, with law enforcement agencies to address violent extremism as part of the broader mandate of community safety and crime prevention,” he said.

“At the same time, our partners around the world are actively implementing programs to prevent violent extremism and foreign terrorist fighter recruitment. The summit will include representatives from a number of partner nations, focusing on the themes of community engagement, religious leader engagement, and the role of the private sector and tech community,” the White House spokesman added….

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  1. rev g says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 11:59 am

    Maybe they can get LocoJoe to do a video explaining true islam, and send it to all those extremists.

    • Gail Griffin says

      Jan 12, 2015 at 12:41 pm

      Yes,yes. America has Hollywood. A movie on what islam is really all about from the White House. We will teach um!

      • Angemon says

        Jan 12, 2015 at 3:44 pm

        Gail Griffin posted:

        “America has Hollywood.”

        Unfortunately, Hollywood is almost entirely populated by left-loving useful idiots who would sooner take the life story of Christ, replace “Jesus” with “muhammad”, make a movie out of it and present it as an “historical epic” rather than reading the muslim sources and learning how execrable muhammad was.

        For example, Tom Clancy’s novel “The Sum of All Fears” was about arab (muslim) terrorists. When the movie adaptation was announced, CAIR lobbied for two years against the use of muslim villains, and the movie version featured right-wing neo-fascists. Another example: Kevin Sorbo has publicly stated that being an assumed Christian harmed his career.

        • Tom W Harris says

          Jan 13, 2015 at 4:35 am

          The fact that he’s a sucky actor hasn’t helped him either.

        • Shane says

          Jan 13, 2015 at 10:36 am

          Yes, to Obama and left wing Hollywood, NRA members, the KKK, and tea party guys are violent extremists. I am just waiting for the announcement from Obama that we are at war with the tea party.

      • Parry says

        Jan 13, 2015 at 9:27 pm

        Obama’s definition of an “extremist” is…
        “Anyone who believes in the Constitution
        of the United States of America”.

    • Gail Griffin says

      Jan 12, 2015 at 12:56 pm

      Yes,yes. America has Hollywood. A movie on what islam is really all about from the White House. We will teach um! It can be called ‘Earnest being Earnest!!

  2. pdxnag says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:05 pm

    At this conference we will learn how not to say the words Islam Jihad and Koran.

    Violence is like a pinball, all random and herky jerky and just too fast for the human eye to figure out.

  3. Pig Farmers Helper says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:11 pm

    “(CVE) efforts rely heavily on well-informed and resilient local communities………integrating a range of social service providers, including education administrators, mental health professionals, and religious leaders, with law enforcement agencies to address violent extremism as part of the broader mandate of community safety and crime prevention”

    Why not add philosophers, LGBT members of CAIR, Secular street cleaners, etc……MY TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR THIS CRAP!!!

  4. katnis says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    appropriately named, since it has nothing to do with islam (sarcasm)

  5. ApolloSpeaks says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:19 pm

    WHY DID OBAMA MISS YESTERDAY’S HISTORIC RALLY?

    Because he wanted the Moslem world to know that

    HE IS NOT CHARLIE

    Click http://www.apollospeaks.com for my article on this disturbing subject.

  6. Angemon says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    On February 18, 2015, the White House will host a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism to highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting, or inspiring individuals or groups in the United States and abroad to commit acts of violence

    Those “extreme” sports guys better watch out…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO2Abp0FbA0

    “Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) efforts rely heavily on well-informed and resilient local communities. Boston

    Huh? They’re counting on the local communities to tip them off? You known, the same local communities who after each jihadi attack just say “no no, that had nothing to do with islam”? Talk about putting the foxes guarding the hen-house. How’s that working out with the Boston community?

    Madness. Suicidal madness. Not only because of the idea but also because I don’t see any dissenting voices.

    • Gail Griffin says

      Jan 12, 2015 at 12:51 pm

      Well why not? The resilient and forceful community could be the jihadist’s family. They need to watch out for deviant religious trends, after all Western civilization does not have enough law enforcement to watch them all. If a jihadist actually commits a crime, mass murder etc then the whole family gets shipped to the Islamic state, right down to 1st cousins. There we can bomb them or perhaps the boots on the ground folk can shoot them dead.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 14, 2015 at 11:31 pm

        Gail wrote:

        The resilient and forceful community could be the jihadist’s family…
        …………………………

        Gail, except in a few cases where the Jihadist in question is a “revert” still living in mom’s basement, the Jihadist’s family is Muslim. They are predisposed not to turn their pious coreligionists in to the “filthy Kuffar”.

        We can pretty much count the number of times suspected Jihadists were turned in by their family or community on the fingers of one hand.

  7. Boston Tea Party says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    No doubt the central theme will be to create a moral equivalency between drawing “Islamophobic” cartoons, and murdering cartoonists. “Yes, murdering cartoonists is bad, but if we would all accept Islamic blasphemy restrictions, there would be no need for Muslims to be violent.”

  8. Undaunted says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    Peace through superior firepower.

  9. Richie says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    According to the left in the US, the terrorists are the Tea Party members. That is how detached from reality they are.

    HOW can we win a war if the enemy (Islam) is not even named?

    • Darren says

      Jan 12, 2015 at 1:06 pm

      Tea party people who simply wanted a smaller government since we agree with what Lord Ackton, when he said absolute power corrupts absolutely, and simply want lower taxes since we are in the midst of a depression despite what the media says. Also the conference will focus on those Amish horse cart bombers, returning war vets, and Catholic nun extremists, while ignoring anything to do with islam,

  10. michelle says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:45 pm

    I’m predicting any action our muslim president partakes in will result in the participation in any website such as this one becoming illegal.

    Because, of course, as he has said to europeans; americans are arrogant and provokes terrorism.

    • Mac-101 says

      Jan 12, 2015 at 3:04 pm

      Exactly. THEY want to control ALL thought on the internet and ELIMINATE ALL dissent.

  11. Notta_allah_followa says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:48 pm

    I’m afraid that irrespective of whether the political establishment in power has a D behind its name or an R, the problem of ‘extremism’ will continue. Islam is ten steps ahead of us in this war and we haven’t left the starting gates yet. Step 1? Know thine enemy. How can we know Islam if we can’t name Islam? We keep using generic terms like ‘violent extremism’ and ‘radicalized’ without ever naming the root word. Radicalized what? Lutheranism? Extreme what? Buddhism? Until we can have an honest discussion of who it is we face, we will be attending a lot of solidarity rallies after the carnage.

  12. Marius says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    The government’s redefinition of “terrorist” as “extremist” is the most alarming example of Orwellian language corruption during Obama’s tenure. I have zero doubt this was done so that law enforcement and intelligence community records would categorize actual domestic jihadists and politically active conservative agitators in the same threat category. The end point being that when government personnel working within the national security enterprise query interior/regional threats they will show flags on both the muslim convert with ISIS tags on his facebook and a Christian who believes that abortion is murder. The Left warps our language to control thought through linguistic restriction.

  13. Kepha says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    More solemn pronouncements to the effect that one wonderful, enlightened, erudite American liberal knows Islam better than the combined faculties of every madrassa from Mauretania to Mindanao, Nigeria to Ningxia, and the Kama to the Comoros put together.

    And we wonder why the rest of the world calls us arrogant!

  14. Louise says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    Maybe the world leaders cotulf boycott his summit. After all mays a soccer game. Could be on. It would send him a message that he needs to be part of the international community and not when its convenient for him. And thank you again the obama viters

  15. Screeminmeeme says

    Jan 13, 2015 at 8:25 am

    Well….I’m relieved…aren’t you? I feel so much safer knowing that Obama is addressing that tall-blond-Swede-Mormon-terrorism problem we have.

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