This article is several days old, so it may be that the White House’s insistence that Islamic jihad terrorism not be mentioned at the “Countering Violent Extremism” summit comes at the behest of these groups, to whom Obama always responds, “How high?” when they say, “Jump!” However, the fact that it is a “Countering Violent Extremism” summit instead of a “Countering Islamic Jihad” summit shows that the denial was already in place. In fact, it has been since 2011, when the Obama Administration scrubbed all mention of Islam and jihad from counter-terror training materials. These groups were simply engaging in pre-emptive victimhood so as to wring even more concessions from the Administration — probably mainly the dismantling of whatever vestiges may remain of any attempts to counter jihad terror.
“Obama’s Anti-Extremist Strategy Criticized As Wrongly Singling Out Muslims,” by Jaweed Kaleem, Huffington Post, February 13, 2015:
As the White House prepares to host a three-day summit next week on countering violent extremism, many high-profile Muslim and religious groups argue that the administration’s efforts have unfairly singled out Muslims and the Islamic faith.
In the days leading up to the summit, Muslim Advocates said it has “serious concerns about the government’s track record of treating extremist violence as though it were an exclusively Muslim problem.” The prominent civil rights and legal advocacy group, which will be represented at the White House event, said the government’s efforts on extremism send “a dangerous signal to members of the public that their Muslim neighbors are a threat.”
The Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, which has been in the works since last fall, will begin on Feb. 17. The White House press release last month said the summit would focus on “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.” The statement pointed to recent attacks by radicalized Muslims in Ottawa, Sydney and Paris.
The National Security Council will host the first two days of the event, which are supposed to shine light on American efforts — including pilot programs in Boston, Minneapolis and Los Angeles that aim to improve relations between Muslim communities, police and the Department of Homeland Security. On the third day, the summit will move to the State Department to look at international programs, with security experts and government officials coming from United Kingdom and dozens of other nations.
According to a press release, Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to “participate in a roundtable discussion with representatives from cities working to address the spread of violent extremism” on Tuesday, while President Barack Obama will deliver remarks on Wednesday and Thursday. The White House has not released a full schedule of events or a list of attendees.
But leaders of the largest Muslim organizations in the U.S. have said they are disappointed they weren’t invited to attend. Top officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America and the Islamic Circle of North America won’t be at the table next week. Several attendees of a high-profile meeting the president held with Muslims last week — including Kameelah Rashad, Muslim chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania — have also not been invited.
“We recognize there are people of ill intent trying to recruit American Muslims into their cause. But I think the community needs to be the one that leads on that front,” said Corey Saylor, director of the Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia at CAIR.
The organization, which has chapters in nearly every state and dozens of cities, released a five-page paper criticizing the White House’s strategy for countering extremist violence on Friday.
“Stop treating us like suspects and start treating us like assets,” said Saylor, who added that public revelations about government surveillance and informant programs in their communities have made American Muslims suspicious of authorities’ anti-extremism efforts….
jihad3tracker says
It is easy to forget that “backchannel” communication may be happening on a truly massive scale with this administration.
Almost certainly, I would guess. And one of the results, as Mr. Spencer observes, could be the scrubbing of terms which actually reflect unpleasant reality.
steven says
Muslims tell us what we want to hear But their true intentions are to seek, control and destroy…….
They have 2 faces and is how the koran want them to behave in order to accomplish it all.
jay says
Never know when those extremist crusaders might raise from the grave. Obama is on the case!
duh_swami says
Well we all know by now that you can’t defeat violent extremism with violence. The way to defeat that is jobs. Give a violent extremist a job, and they will become docile. If jobs are not available the violent extremist will take cash payments. Of course an employer of violent extremists take their chances the the violent extremist turned docile, may have a relapse resulting in workplace violence.
Jay Boo says
Obama will need to come up with a non-Islamic euphemism for these payments.
Babs says
You’re oversimplifying. By the time the jihadi becomes a violent extremist he can’t just stop because he’s got a job!
Jay Boo says
Leaders of the largest Muslim organizations in the U.S. are disappointed they weren’t invited to attend so they could whine and then dictate the agenda points.
William Lucas HarveyJr. says
How do you “Wrongly” Single Out Muslims, when Muslims ARE the KNOWN DOCUMENTED responsible Group, for Bloody Terrorist acts throughout the World ?
Are they ALL, including the Obama Administration in Denial, have their Heads in the Sand, or just attempting to Cover up and Excuse their Terrorist actions ?
Well with CAIR, et.al, it’s “Cover up, Deny Responsibility, and Excuse”, but with Obama it’s “Head in the Sand Denial” OR attempting to protect, and not embarrass, his own Islamic friends.
mariam rove says
How do you “Wrongly” Single Out Muslims, when Muslims ARE the KNOWN DOCUMENTED responsible Group, for Bloody Terrorist acts throughout the World ?
When you are a dhimmi and a muslim and islamic lover like Obama is. M
Georg says
Amish people insist of waving and smiling at me when they pass. It makes me feel insufficiently pious, or as I sometimes think to myself… TERRORIZED!!!
Jay Boo says
After all 99.99999 % of terrorism being Islamic does not automatically mean there is a definite correlation to Islam.
Joginder Singh says
Even if it was 100 percent of all terrorism being islamic muslims and their useful idiots would still deny it and blame the West, Christians, Sikhs, Jews, Pagans, MI6, Mossad, CIA and anyone else but the real terrorists muslims
traci94 says
The audacity of these people is unbelievable. The reason these extremist attacks are being treated as exclusively a Muslim issue is because they are!! Please tell me where any acts of terror are being committed in any other name other than the name of Islam?? Please wake up to reality. It may be uncomfortable, but it is the absolute truth.
pdxnag says
What else could violent extremists (pious Muslims) say when they hold a conference?
Richie says
Obama is going out of his way NOT to single out Muslims, to the point of not using the words ‘Terrorist’ and ‘Muslim/Islam in the same sentence. Obama is the best ally the Jihadsits could ever hope to have
silvergreycat says
Richie,
*Obama is going out of his way NOT to single out Muslims…* But he has discovered something about Islam (as Dr. Bill Warner explains) …
Loretta Pienaar says
Traci94 and Richie, I agree 100%.
Angemon says
Right, it’s not like we have a large number of islamic terrorist organizations worldwide whose driving forces and endgame are surprisingly consistent – exactly how many of them don’t quote from islamic scripture to justify their actions?
Michael Copeland says
If all the useful words are ruled out of play the result will be useless waffle.
See The BBC’s Useless Waffle about “British Islam”
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6697-the-battle-for-british-islam
Lynn says
Tomorrow The Center for Security Policy is having a summit discussion about jihad and how to deal with it. Only it’s not advertized because it’s not PC and the Media isn’t covering it or mentioning it. Go to centerforsecuritypolicy.org and it’s going to be live streamed. Starts at 9 EST I believe…
Larry A. Singleton says
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld, (CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood), That’s Conspiring to Islamize America by Gaubatz and Sperry.
Is CAIR a Terror Group? by Daniel Pipes (National Review Online)
http://www.danielpipes.org/15220/cair-terror-group#print
•”CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists”;
•”CAIR … is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries”;
•”CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists”; and
•”CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations.”
Getting to Know the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
http://www.danielpipes.org/biblio_cair.php (Assorted articles)
CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha (MEQ article)
meforum-org/916/cair-islamists-fooling-the-establishment#_ftnref60
CAIR’s silence on pastor’s apostasy death sentence is deafening” by Andrew G. Bostom (American Thinker)
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/cairs_silence_on_pastors_apostasy_death_sentence_is_deafening.html
Free Speech v. Political Correctness by Abraham H. Miller (Gatestone Institute)
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4862/berkeley-free-speech
FBI statistics show that hate crimes against Muslims, which are never justified, are actually quite uncommon, with hate crimes against Jews being over four times more common. Details here: http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2014/12/new-fbi-hate-crime-stats-another-blow-to-islamist
Many women and girls around the world have been brutalized and even killed for not wearing a hijab. A list of some of them, with further links to the relevant news stories, is at this link: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/today-is-world-hijab-day
CAIR and the MSA appear to have been involved in this event. Both were named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land trial, which involved funneling money to the terror group Hamas. Both have demonstrable ties, documented and noted by the FBI, with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. See, for example, these links:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2340/federal-judge-agrees-cair-tied-to-hamas
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/March/Muslim-Student-Group-a-Gateway-to-Jihad/
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future by David Horowitz and Robert Spencer (Booklet)
11 of Canada’s highest-profile jihad terrorists tied to Muslim Students Association
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/11-of-canadas-highest-profile-jihad-terrorists-tied-to-muslim-students-association
Slavery, Terrorism and Islam, (and Holocaust in Rwanda), by Peter Hammond (This is an Ass-Kicking little resource of 276 pages.)
Subscribe to Jihad/Campus Watch and the Middle East Forum/Quarterly, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Gatestone Institute, FrontPage Magazine, American Thinker, The Clarion Project, Cross Muslims, Palestinian Media Watch, Muhammad unveiled, Religion of Peace and read Raymond Ibrahim, Efraim Karsh, Patrick Poole, Caroline Glick, Bat Ye’or and others.
pumbar says
Obama – The audacity of dope.
Salah says
“..many high-profile Muslim and religious groups argue that the administration’s efforts have unfairly singled out Muslims and the Islamic faith.”
Brave Muslims themselves are starting to single out their own Islamic faith:
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/08/cannibalism-in-islam-taught-at-al-azhar.html
Michael Copeland says
Look no further, CVE experts.
“A group of British muslims say they believe they have an answer” says John Ware.
“An extreme but non-violent ideology helps push muslims into the arms of violent extremists”.
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6697-the-battle-for-british-islam
Gea says
Barack Hussein Obama is the chief commnisty organizer for the jihad against USA, helping Musilm Brotherhood inpired jihad around the world. Obama is roganizer of the stealth jihad and fund rising for ISIS and his Muslim Brotherhood.
When will US congress have courage to impeach this traitor not only of US but Western civilization?
fidobite says
I’m ready to go to all-out war with the islamic world infection today. It’s inevitable and the sooner we face the fact and act the better. Islamo-satanism is a worldwide cancer that is metastasizing faster than we can react to it.
All immigration from the bastard islamic countries must come to an end immediately and all existing muslims in western countries must be deported back to their hellholes of origin. It’s a huge undertaking to be sure but the alternative is massive bloodshed on western soil soon as the islamo-cancer is growing all around us at a reproductive rate more than twice that of native westerners.
If these were avowed nazis the situation would be essentially the same. Once they reach a certain percent of the population they’ll use our very own voting rights to eventually command the controlling position and sharia will become the law of the land. Bloodshed will then be inevitable and civil war will commence If it hasn’t already begun. Political islam is as evil as any other fascist ideology and it’s unrestrained expansion will drive all liberty loving people to revolt. I can see no alternative to eventual massive bloodshed!
Mike Holt, CEO RestoreAustralia says
Really? Who are these terrorists then? What ‘religion’ do they belong to? Duh! Burn down all the mosques….Stop the terrorists!