“These programs operate under the assumption that Muslims are a national security threat,” said Haroon Manjlai of the Los Angeles chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations. “They’re highly objectionable.”
Even this toothless, politically correct program, which operates on the assumption that if young Muslims are offered jobs and a spot on a basketball team they will not turn to jihad, is too much for Hamas-linked CAIR. See, if you even imply in any way that some Muslims, just a tiny minority of extremists, are a national security threat, that’s “highly objectionable.” Will Hamas-linked ever see a counterterror program it can support?
“Effort in 3 US cities to combat extremism off to slow start,” by Philip Marcelo, Associated Press, March 24, 2016:
BOSTON (AP) — A federally funded effort in Boston, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to combat extremist recruitment has been slow to start since it was announced a year and a half ago.
Few local programs have been directly created by the “Countering Violent Extremism” pilot initiative, with officials in those cities just starting to distribute more than $500,000 in Department of Justice grant money to jumpstart new local efforts.
Minneapolis appears to be further along, but Boston and Los Angeles are months away from distributing their share of the money — if at all.
“It’s a little frustrating,” said Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Michael Downing, whose department had been looking forward to federal support to enhance longstanding efforts that include outreach to help prevent radicalization. “We haven’t seen a dime. We’re clearly at the point where we want to put our money where our mouth is.”
Recent attacks — including in Paris in November, San Bernardino, California, in December and Brussels on Tuesday — make the local programs all the more critical, suggests Robert Trestan, who has been involved with the Boston pilot as regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, which fights anti-Semitism.
“It’s been disappointingly slow, but we have to give it a chance before it’s too late,” he said.
Wyn Hornbuckle, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, said the agency is generally “encouraged” by what it sees from the pilot efforts, including “community-driven efforts to address youth prevention and intervention, mental and behavioral health, and radicalization in prisons, among other areas.”
He would not provide specifics or comment on the whether the department had expected local programs to be running by now.
But he noted the funds — $216,000 each to Boston and Minneapolis and $100,000 to Los Angeles — were obligated in September 2015 and are good through this coming September, with limited extensions possible beyond then.
The pilot effort in Boston, Los Angeles and Minneapolis — with wider rollout possible based on its success — was announced in September 2014 and spotlighted during a three-day summit on global extremism convened the following February by President Barack Obama.
But observers say it has been underfunded and hobbled by a vague mission that has sown confusion and fueled strong opposition from civil rights and community groups that fear the programs will amount to government spying on law-abiding Muslims.
The pilot program in the three cities is just one piece of the administration’s broader “Countering Violent Extremism” agenda.
Top White House officials met in recent months with Silicon Valley tech giants in an effort to block or limit social-media distribution of extremist propaganda from the Islamic State and other groups. Secretary of State John Kerry has also met with Hollywood executives to enlist their help in social media campaigns.
The FBI recently rolled out an online classroom resource on extremism called “Don’t Be a Puppet” and provided a guide to school administrators that addresses “concerning behavior” and how to intervene.
The Department of Justice started seeking applicants this month for some $3.5 million in grant money to develop, replicate or evaluate programs to reduce violent extremism.
And researchers at UCLA, Harvard and the University of Illinois at Chicago have a total of $1 million in Department of Homeland Security money to help enhance efforts to counter extremism in Boston and Los Angeles, specifically….
“I wouldn’t call this a failure,” said Brandy Donini-Melanson, a coordinator in the office of Boston U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, which had initially led the effort there. “Let us get to a point where we have some funded programs and where there is some level of measurement to determine whether these efforts are successful or not.”…
“These programs operate under the assumption that Muslims are a national security threat,” said Haroon Manjlai, a spokesman for the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “They’re highly objectionable.”

Mark says
Muslims are a national security threat… Ban islam from America
Bobb says
And from the toothless & Muslim-dominated UN!
Angemon says
How many attacks have been stopped thanks to local communities denouncing “radicalized” “extremists” amongst them?
John Spielman says
NONE!!! to renounce Islamic violence is to renounce Islam and muhammed himself who was a demon possessed mass murderer thief liar misogynist and pedphile false prophet
linnte says
Any good program designed to alter human behavior is scientifically based on what the outcome should be according to percentages of people affected. A good program needs to know the CAUSE and effect, and base success on those outcomes. If the program managers cannot and will not take into consideration that Islamic doctrine is the CAUSE they will just be spending taxpayers money for their own salaries.
dajjal says
Instead of combating terrorism, CVE programs will fund and incentivize it.
Gary Daniels says
“These programs operate under the assumption that Muslims are a national security threat,”
And rightly so.
gerard says
“These programs operate under the assumption that Muslims are a national security threat”
You got that right!
DRHazard says
If CAIR had their own program for preventing young Muslims from becoming radicalized the manual would have instructions like:
1. If you feel the need to eradicated non-Muslims never look inward. You have those feelings for a reason and they will include one or more of the following: Jews, the West, Christians, Women, Donald Trump, anyone who eats a bacon cheeseburger, Eskimoes,
2. You cannot and never will be a terrorist as long as you are following the will of Allah.
3. If you can’t read (half of all Muslims) then the Pro-Islamist websites are an excellent source of information.
4. Never rape a woman when 4 male witnesses are present, especially if you don’t know them and they just walked in on it.
5. Tell everybody that Jihad means struggle. Millions of stupid liberals will fill in the gaps for you.
6. Don’t expect everybody to take your suicide testament video at face value. Most elected or religious public figures will completely ignore it.
7. The more closely you emulate the life of Muhammad the more people who don’t know anything about Islam will claim you are not a “real” Muslim.
dajjal says
Islam is and Muslims are national security threats. Violent extremism is camel crap: what Moe said and did is normative, not extreme. “I have been made victorious with terror”… What part of the Koran and hadith do the Morons in power not comprehend???
3:151, 8:12,39,57,60,65,67, 9:5,29,38, 39,111,120,123, 33:26,27, 47:4,49:15, 59:2,13, 61:10-13; Sahih Bukhari 1.7.331 & 4.52.220.
The slogan must be: “Don’t be a Muslim: apostatize, emancipate yourself from slavery to Satan.”
mortimer says
Are Muslims not supposed to support and conduct jihad…the warfare against dirty kafirs? How can Muslims integrate into the US while their doctrine tells them NOT TO INTEGRATE or IMITATE dirty kafirs…or else they will be ONE OF THEM?
Does anyone in the US government see the contradiction in asking Muslims to support ‘jahiliyya’?
Political Islam begins with the concept of ‘jahiliyya’ which says that non-Islamic cultures must be destroyed.
We cannot bring overwhelming numbers of revolutionaries of this sort into the West without creating the conditions for civil war. Muslims are commanded by their sacred texts to politically take over every country where Muslims live and to attack those countries where Muslims do not live in order to Islamize them. This is firstly, civil war and secondly, invasion.
Islam is thus incompatible with pluralism, freedom of expression and liberal democracy, since Muslims are obligated to make Islam the political system of every country.
Islamists will be able to begin a civil war such as their is in Nigeria when Muslims become about 15% to 20% of the population and have influential spots in the military and institutions.
Jerry says
Absolutely true. We ignore the threat of islam at our own peril. There can be no peace with islam. You either beat it, or you are beat.
Mickal says
Funny thing is as a Patriot citizen I know you CAIR are supporting terrorist organization and the only two reason you have not been dissolved and lock up is 1).top traitor in WhiteHouse also support and is a member and 2)THE CIA top is also a member so you have some barrier of defense. Let me say however that you can post all negative records about current lack of growth and your point of view about this organization and their mental focus but let me make it clear that your deceitful lies will not captivate minds as you have done in the UK. Your time is running out and your scheme to take over will not be. Even your so call brothers in middle eastern countries have label you as a terror supporting group so when you video tape your meeting and show it on youtube, yeah those who still are perplex to how this African born Muslim manage to be the president are searching and have found much answers to your threats.
dajjal says
Muslims are a national security threat; their existence and their presence here are highly objectionable.
The time has come for us to stand up and object loudly. Combat terrorism by removing potential terrorists from the target zone. Expel and exclude Muslims from Dar al-Harb. No Muslims, no problem.
Given the existence of inter continental missiles and nuclear weapons, the existence of Muslims anywhere on the face of the planet is a national security threat.
How will we solve this problem and eliminate the threat? Shall we exterminate them or cause them to quit being Muslims? Does anyone have the political will to undertake either course of action? Does anyone have a clue how to achieve either strategic objective?