“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.”
Indeed, but the white supremacist threat has been wildly exaggerated by Soros-funded groups (which exaggerations have been pushed by Soros-funded media) that downplay and deny the jihad threat. Reuters’ equivalence here also ignores the fact that the jihad is an international movement set on destroying the U.S. and found on every continent; white supremacism is not.
What Trump is really doing here is reversing Obama’s bow to Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups in scrubbing counter-terror training materials of all mention of Islam and jihad. On October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates delivered a letter to John Brennan, who was then the assistant to the president on National Security for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism. The letter was signed by the leaders of virtually all significant Islamic groups in the United States: 57 Muslim, Arab, and South Asian organizations, many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Islamic Relief USA, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam.” Khera complained specifically about me, noting that my books could be found in “the FBI’s library at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia”; that a reading list accompanying a slide presentation by the FBI’s Law Enforcement Communications Unit recommended my book The Truth About Muhammad; that in July 2010 I “presented a two-hour seminar on ‘the belief system of Islamic jihadists’ to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Tidewater, Virginia”; and that I also “presented a similar lecture to the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, which is co-hosted by the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office.”
These were supposed to be terrible materials because I was supposedly bigoted and hateful. However, many of the examples Khera adduced of “bigoted and distorted materials” involved statements that were simply accurate. The only distortion was Khera’s representation of them.
For instance, Khera stated:
A 2006 FBI intelligence report stating that individuals who convert to Islam are on the path to becoming “Homegrown Islamic Extremists,” if they exhibit any of the following behavior:
“Wearing traditional Muslim attire”
“Growing facial hair”
“Frequent attendance at a mosque or a prayer group”
“Travel to a Muslim country”
“Increased activity in a pro-Muslim social group or political cause”
The FBI intelligence report Khera purported to be describing didn’t actually say that. Rather, it included these behaviors among a list of fourteen indicators that could “identify an individual going through the radicalization process.” Other indicators included:
“Travel without obvious source of funds”
“Suspicious purchases of bomb making paraphernalia or weapons”
“Large transfer of funds, from or to overseas”
“Formation of operational cells”
Khera had selectively quoted the list to give the impression that the FBI was teaching that devout observance of Islam led inevitably and in every case to “extremism.”
Despite the factual accuracy of the material about which they were complaining, the Muslim groups signing the letter demanded that the task force, among other actions:
“Purge all federal government training materials of biased materials.”
“Implement a mandatory re-training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers, and all federal, state and local law enforcement who have been subjected to biased training.”
They wished to ensure that all law enforcement officials ever learn about Islam and jihad would be what the signatories wanted them to learn — and Brennan was amenable to that. He took Khera’s complaints as his marching orders.
In a November 3, 2011, letter to Khera that — significantly — was written on White House stationery, Brennan accepted Khera’s criticisms without a murmur of protest and assured her of his readiness to comply. He detailed specific actions being undertaken, including “collecting all training materials that contain cultural or religious content, including information related to Islam or Muslims.” In reality, this material wouldn’t just be “collected”; it would be purged of anything that Farhana Khera and others like her found offensive. Honest, accurate discussion of how Islamic jihadists use Islamic teachings to justify violence would no longer be allowed.
The alacrity with which Brennan complied was unfortunate on many levels. Numerous books and presentations that gave a perfectly accurate view of Islam and jihad were purged. Brennan was complying with demands from quarters that could hardly be considered authentically moderate.
This Obama policy of the U.S. government ensured that numerous jihadists simply could not be identified as risks. The Obama administration was bound, as a matter of policy, to ignore what in saner times would be taken as warning signs. Now we can hope that Trump will reverse all that.
“Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam – sources,” by Julia Edwards Ainsley, Dustin Volz and Kristina Cooke, Reuters, February 2, 2017:
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.
Still, the CVE program, which focuses on U.S. residents and is separate from a military effort to fight extremism online, has been criticized even by some supporters as ineffective.
A source who has worked closely with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the program said Trump transition team members first met with a CVE task force in December and floated the idea of changing the name and focus.
In a meeting last Thursday attended by senior staff for DHS Secretary John Kelly, government employees were asked to defend why they chose certain community organizations as recipients of CVE program grants, said the source, who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the discussions.
Although CVE funding has been appropriated by Congress and the grant recipients were notified in the final days of the Obama administration, the money still may not go out the door, the source said, adding that Kelly is reviewing the matter….

common sense says
Robert Spencer and Phillip Haney belong back in the fold. Putting Islamic alphabet soup groups in a choke hold is exactly what needs to be done and I’m sure Trump is all over it. What a change from BHO, thanks for this news!
Trump wants to”completely eradicate isis from the face of the earth”. Big smiles.
Climber says
The broadening must include suits-and-ties Islamic Supremacist, Muslim Brotherhood front groups operating in America.
frederick King says
Egypt bans the muslim brotherhood, and its associate groups. Why not us ?
Guest says
There is no islamism – straight from the horse’s mouth (Erdogan):
Merkel has just been told off severely by Erdogan for daring to use the term ‘islamist terror’:
“Erdogan immediately retaliated that there is no islamist terror, that Islam is a religion of peace and that he forbade such expressions. There it was, the slap in Merkel’s face in front of the electorate. Erdogan accused her of injuring all muslims with her choice of words. She attempted to enlighten him about the difference between ‘islamic’ and ‘islamist’ (the latter is Islam with demands of political power).
But she seemed poweless, compared to Erdogan’s sultan-like sentence, and his voters will only have gathered that he powerfully defended Islam against a non-believer and put her in her place.”
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article161761883/Erdogans-verbale-Ohrfeige-fuer-Kanzlerin-Merkel.html
EmHotep says
I was watching it on Turkish TV and suddenly I thought he was going to slap her face .. & next one to be slapped Mr.Donal trump I am afraid.
Imagine our situation as Seculars and non-Muslims of Turkey 🙁 we are doomed.
gravenimage says
EmHotep, I’m glad to see you fighting for a secular Turkey–but I believe you should have a backup plan and get out if you have to.
Guest says
What demographic are seculars? Wouldn’t most people have grown up that way, or only city dwellers?
EmHotep says
Seculars are 30-40 % of the 80m population. Yes, there were good, humanist, secular people in Turkey but not strong enough against Islamists. If Ataturk was alive he could have shown them we are with west… I don’t really know what is going to happen in the near feature. You have seen Erdogan’s behaviour against the Chancellor of Germany. I think it is better I will only read what is going on and see what happens.
EmHotep says
Dear Gravenimage, thank you very much for your support and messages, I will miss them. I will go low profile from now on, I hope at least some people got my messages.
I really want the good people to win against jihad and not interested in real politics.
All the Best
If every word is carried on, they will not perish in the land.
gravenimage says
EmHotep, aren’t you going to continue to post here? Isn’t it generally safe so long as you use a pseudonym?
If it really so dangerous as this now in Turkey for you, then you do need to get out.
underbed cat says
“Islam is Islam” also once quoted from Erdogan, what he just said to Angela is just enforcing sharia law to silence her.
CVE can’t say or acknowledge…sharia? What’s that?
abad says
Hint:
The REAL reason the American Left hates President Trump’s moves:
Because they firmly believe ISL are Freedom Fighters, NOT terrorists.
gravenimage says
That’s probably true for the most extreme Leftists, abad–for squishy Liberals, it’s more that they believe the bs about ISIS not being real Islam.
Lia Wissing says
Give the CIA, FBI and DHS back their unpurged/pre-purge manuals. Invite Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nonie Darwish, Raymond Ibrahim et al. to inform the army and police and border patrols re Islam. Get rid of all MB, ISNA, CAIR et al. infiltrators into government circles.
Diane Harvey says
Good,
“will reportedly be changed to ‘Countering Islamic Extremism’”
Even better,
“will reportedly be changed to ‘Confronting Islam’”
As we in the counter-jihad movement know, as does President Erdogan himself, there are no qualifiers to be placed in front of Islam. Islam is Islam.
Realizing that, Trump and his advisors should be about the business of confronting Islam while simultaneously informing the American public on the principles of Islam.
mortimer says
ROBERT SPENCER should be HIRED IMMEDIATELY to redesign counterjihad training in all government departments to reflect the REALITY OF ISLAMIC TEACHINGS about 1) jihad 2) the kafir doctrine 3) Islam’s MISOGYNY doctrine 4) Islamic APARTHEID doctrine (al Walaa wal Baraa) 5) the TAQIYYA and KITMAN doctrines 6) the MURUNA and DARURA doctrines 7) how the doctrines were APPLIED in ISLAMIC HISTORY.
Without those basics about Islam, the government of the USA will CONTINUE to be VICTIMIZED and DISINFORMED by JIHADISTS.
Vic says
Aye, aye! Second the motion.
Let it be so, Lord!
Shmooviyet says
Could not agree more.
Besides Mr. Spencer’s knowledge, at the very least, form a small group to scan this site daily; there’s much to learn about stealth jihad, for example, and many excellent teachers here.
gravenimage says
Yes, I’d love to see this, Mortimer!
Adrian says
Absolutely!
abad says
It needs to happen – The faster President Trump keeps us safer, the better off we will be.
TR says
We must rally around the President on this very necessary counter-extremism program, based solely on Islam.
No doubt the opposition by Liberals and their bias left media will be intense. The duped masses must be ignored and the focus of this program will stay on track to make our Republic safe once again.
common sense says
Last week some suggessted writing the President by hand (still a great idea). 10 letters are screened and selected to be read by the POTUS.
Also-
The public comment line (202-456-1111) is manned by volunteers recruited by the current administration. The White House switchboard (202-456-1414) is manned by professional White House operators.
Westman says
“No doubt the opposition by Liberals and their bias left media will be intense.”
Perhaps they will set more neo-communist campuses on fire to demonstrate the beauty of their vision? They should have a slogan like, “If you’re not at the one you’d trash, then trash the one you’re at!”
EmHotep says
I have a difficult question for you people;
1) What is jihad? How many types of jihad are there?
I will give you a hint;
1) Jihad for holy war ( It takes 2 minutes to solve who they are, it’s very easy for us as Turkish seculars)
BUT
2) Jihad for holy war II ( Jihad with pen and paper, it’s very much secret like masonic establishment, and western people will not be able to understand, these people are undercovered and everywhere in the world) Very dangerous type of jihad and planned for long term, requires 15-30 years of patience..
Please do not forget, as once dictator erdogan of Turkey said, “Democracy is just a train for muslims until the next stop”.
I will give some hints time to time from here to help you out, in the meantime we are preoccupied with the situation in Turkey.
Charli Main says
The Muslim 5th column has been outstandingly successful in Britain. Aided and abetted by home grown dhimini Muslim huggers, they have penetrated every aspect of British society. Muslims have infiltrated every level of national and local politics, educational ,financial and judicial systems.
Islam and its adherents, the cancer rotting Britain from within.
EmHotep says
Hi, yes I know as if there is a secret hand supporting these people. It was same in TR and we lost the whole country, even 50% of our army is now infiltrated.
In 30 years time, UK, Germany will be Muslim countries. This is legal looking jihad, they are using democracy as a tool to penetrate and when they reach the necessary numbers they start acting against nonmuslims or seculars.
Turkey is a good example for this even we are a secular country with Muslim majority we could not understand what is happening.
I hope your government will see this. Good luck from TR.
Charli Main says
@ EmHotep
Are you a non- Muslim ethnic Turk or ethnic Anatolian ? Your sign in name intreges me because Emhotep was an ancient Egyptian.
No offense intended in my question
kind regards
EmHotep says
I just like ancient Egypt’s history and interested in esoteric knowledge and Hotep was a very wise person so I chose him as a nickname. I am nonmuslim Turk, Secular and Ataturk follower.
Best Regards
gravenimage says
Important stuff, EmHotep.
I think many here at Jihad Watch understand the “Jihad of the Pen”, though–any Muslim apologist who shows up here is practicing such Jihad. It includes Da’wa, apologia for Islam, whitewashing it, lying about it, and sometimes–in a twist–openly admitting the violence of Islam, but only in order to demoralize Infidels and get them to give up.
Jihad of the Pen is a part of “Stealth Jihad”, which can include such matters as the demographic Jihad, “Lawfare”–legal challenges leading to Islamic norms being accepted in the West–and pushing anything that mainstreams Islamic norms, such as yesterday’s “World Hijab Day”.
The Jihad goes way beyond just violence and terrorism. Even a lot of staunch Anti-Jihadists fail to recognize this.
EmHotep says
Fully agreed and they are lucky to have JW and you 🙂
Guest says
I’m even more concerned about ‘jihad of the womb’ – the French, German and Swedish demographic trends are frightening.
DFD says
Think about the UK. See here, two excellent links in there, leading to stats. In the UK we have 13 million of them, 20%! Already.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/02/world-hijab-day-non-muslim-women-asked-to-wear-hijab-today-in-solidarity-with-muslim-women/comment-page-1#comment-1609066
vladkoval says
EmHotep, excuse me if I am wrong…
But aren’t you yourself not a pen-jihadi, pretending to be a Kemalist?
In your other post you mentioned Gulenism as a sort of Jihadism.
But I have looked through his works and havn’t noticed any calls to violence in the name of Islam. Morever, I heard that Gulenism is a middle path between Islam and Christianity. (if such a path is possible, of course)
Also, you said that Turkish Parliament still has about 100 pro-Gulen MPs.
How come that? After such a huge anti-Gulen cleansing all over the Turkey, the Parliament has 100 Gulenists?
EmHotep says
Why would I be a pen jihadists? I am anti-jihad.
Gulen’s way is much different than normal jihad, I am an expert on Gulen movement. What do you think about their schools in 170 countries why did he open so many schools?
Have you heard about their “lighthouses” where 1 big brother or sister brainwashes all other students? They take the students from very young age and raise them as undercovered imams and as other radical Muslims they hate Christians, Jews and others, they just don’t show.
When the time comes I am sure you will see, I can give you more details, but there is a limit for my own safety. I just know them very closely. (since 1990)
For the Turkish parliament, yes there are at least 100 Gulenists within the justice and development party, Erdogan is preparing for a referendum in April and if the MPs are taken out his government will collapse. So for the time being it is a win-win situation, but it will not continue for a long time.
I hate both Erdogan and Fethullah, to me they are the same sh*t in different colour. Organised Islam is the most dangerous type, whether FETÖ, Erdogan/Muslim brothers.
& Ataturk is our Hero.
vladkoval says
OK then.
“Have you heard about their “lighthouses” where 1 big brother or sister brainwashes all other students?”
Yes I have.
Laura says
Stay safe, EmHotep!
Kay says
Very interesting quote. We can see that happening but I had no idea it had actually been articulated.
Lesley says
Please be safe, EmHotep :-/
Wishing you and your loved ones safety <3
Walter Sieruk says
First ,the term “violent extremism” is too vague is have an real value in the has also been called “The War of Idea’s.” This later term is ,of course ,much better term that than that worthless phrase. “violent extremism.’ Therefore, President Trump in this and many other policy’s is an improvement over that last US President
Second ,it’s a strange but common phenomena in America’s and Europe’s modern PC culture that when it comes to Islamic terrorism there are many people who are afraid to call it what it is. That’s odd because no one is afraid to call a person who engages in violence for anarchy and “anarchist terrorist”. Nor are people afraid to call a Marxist who engages in violence for the ideology of communism a “Communist terrorist.” Likewise, a person who commits violence for Environmentalism an “Environmentalist terrorists. “Nevertheless, when it comes to a Muslim terrorist who engages in deadly violence because of the theology and ideology of Islam, many people fear to call that person an “Islamic terrorists.” Strange but true.
DFD says
Indeed so!
Walter Sieruk says
Just as the term “violent extremism” is a vague and worthless term so is the fake word “Islamism” of no actual value which has ,many times , been substituted for the real word “Islam.”
This false word “Islamism” was make up after September 11,2001 in order not to offend or upset non-violent Muslims.. It’s time to get real.
Jaladhi says
Yup, the word “Islamism” is a coined word by some “experts’ in USA who pretend to be experts on Islam and in a way are Islamic apologists and they try to deflect all Muslim atrocities to this fake word Islamism from the real source of all problems “Islam!
BTW, the real experts are on this site!! LOL…
gravenimage says
Trump to recast Obama’s “Countering Violent Extremism” program to focus on the jihad threat
…………………………………..
Excellent news!
somehistory says
57 moslim countries, 57 moslim organizations…all of them gnashing their teeth over this.
Read this report last night and imagined how much gnashing would be going on by this time today. One can almost hear it.
The beast has large teeth.
common sense says
When we decide we want win we will mass up in an allied campaign to utterly destroy ISIS and every other obvious violent Islamic group, (AQ, MB, Taliban, Hamas etc.) the same way the 3rd Reich was destroyed. Nobody eants WW3 but Muslims want to turn the earth into a shite hole. 30k attacks in 16 years is WAY beyond the pail.
This will send the necessary and long over due message to the rest of the Islamic world that we will not tolerate their subterfuge and barbaric behavior.
WWII victory did not eliminate neo Nazi doctrine but did marginlize it same as winning the cold war dissolved the grip of the so called Soviet Union on the eastern block. These ideologies are hardly main stream for obvious reasons but also because people stood up to their major contributors: Hitler and Stalinists.
Only in this manner will we be able to ferret out all the sneaky rats within or academia, media and govt. We can also work from the inside out, that will take much longer and in the mean time people suffer and will be raped, assualted and killed.
vladkoval says
Oh, I feel that Russia, the number one sponsor of ISIS, is doomed!
gravenimage says
I have my issues with Russia, vladkoval–but describing them as a sponsor of ISIS, let alone the number one sponsor of ISIS, is way off base.
Russia *does* enable Islam–but is more allied with Iran and its Jihad outlets like Hizb’allah.
vladkoval says
Gravenimage, why not?
Remember recently theу left tons of ammunition in Palmira, that could be easily destroyed when retreating?
What is it if not sponsoring ISIS?
(I mentioned just one small example)
Angemon says
Yes, imagine that – an elected leader doing exactly what he promised he would do. Oh, the humanity!!!
marina says
Go Mr. President. Finally someone is calling a spade a spade.
Champ says
“What Trump is really doing here is reversing Obama’s bow to Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups in scrubbing counter-terror training materials of all mention of Islam and jihad.”
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Bravo President Trump! And you know you’re doing the right thing when MoBro, and their ilk, are p’od! Wow more awesome news!
billybob says
The program, “Countering Violent Extremism,” or CVE, would be changed to “Countering Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Radical Islamic Extremism,”, or maybe even “Countering Profound Revolutionary Radical Fundamentalist Islamic Extremism,”
How ridiculous can you get with all those modifiers? “Countering Islamic Extremism” is quite enough.
New Propaganda says
SOme minutes ago in german state TV ZDF at the maybritt illner show about Steve Bannon and Breitbart:
“Before we call this kind of people KKK and Nazis and now we call them Alt-Right…”
John Doe 999 says
While removing Islam from any discussion of terrorism clearly was absurd and dangerous for law enforcement, why remove violent white supremacists? Surely their fanaticism can be very dangerous at times, as well, considering the murders, bombings, and other acts of violence they have committed.
mortimer says
Quote: “Khera had selectively quoted the list to give the impression that the FBI was teaching that devout observance of Islam led inevitably and in every case to “extremism.””
Actually, Muslims who attend ISLAMIC STUDY GROUPS, where the sources texts of Islam are STUDIED, tend to produce JIHADISTS.
If was found that most of the jihadists had participated in ISLAMIC STUDY GROUPS resulting in their RADICALIZATION.
DFD says
“….has been wildly exaggerated by Soros-funded groups (which exaggerations have been pushed by Soros-funded media)…”
Stunning! Incredible!
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Soros has been mentioned. One third of the problem besieging the western world has actually been named. Wow! What’s the world coming to? Sarc/Off
Terry says
I partially disagree.
I agree that Islamic jihad terrorism must be stopped.
HOWEVER, there is also white/ anti-Semitic hate crimes ( seems to be rising-in Jan. there were three cases of Nazi graffiti -on three synagogues- all within a mile of each other; and according to some Jewish websites, something like around 50 bomb threats (over several days-all during January) (like 11 one day, 4 or 5 another, 17 a different day, etc)-some in Florida, others in other states.
And then there was Berkeley yesterday. That was NOT Islamic–probably Soros funded, but most likely home grown pieces of animal shit.
That has to stop.
And, this weekend, there is to be a protest at Lago Del Mar, in Palm beach, FL. (Trump’s home)- with some 2,000 people(?) signed up. (The original sponsoring group canceled earlier today, due to the fear of violence-like in Berkeley, then about 5:30 PM (eastern time) TWO other groups said that they will take over, the protest will go on.
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WHAT PART OF THE FOLLOWING DO THESE ANAL PORES- AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS NOT UNDERSTAND:
TRUMP WON THE ELECTION.
HE CARRIED 34 STATES
HE CARRIED 3,084 OF THE 3,144 COUNTIES IN THE U.S.
THAT IS A SHADE OF 98%.
TAKE OUT 5 OR 6 ( I WILL BE GENEROUS, SAY 6) COUNTIES IN THE NYC METROPOLITAN AREA AND THE L.A. CAL METROPOLITAN AREA, AND HE HAS THE POPULAR VOTE ALSO.
Dov Berrol says
I am convinced that if we are to win this Jihad World War, our defence forces and security services are going to have to break through the protective linguistic shield surrounding the Arab world and they will have to learn Arabic. One of the most important gifts Robert Spencer has given us is the translation to English of the hate speech written in Arab documents and communicated in Arabic language media. The jihadis may rejoice in all of us learning Arabic, but we may need to do so to protect modern western civilization from this medieval threat.
Charli Main says
Every victory against Islam has been won with a sword or through the barrel of a gun. Talking and being nice, does not work with Muslims. That is what all those fearful for the survival of Western Civilization need to understand.
kind regards
underbed cat says
Awesome! Great news.
Edward says
I think the real focus needs to be on proving Islam is not a real religion at all but a made up political ideology. People must know that muslims claim that the quran is the verbatim word of god, focus on this part and expose all the mistakes and lies in the quran so that people can see it is all made up by a 7th century warlord and not a divine doctrine as they claim. Destory it by using it’s own teachings. If muslims can see it is not divine they will leave but it must be done in a way that is definitive.