The entire “Countering Violent Extremism” program is an attempt to divert attention away from Islamic jihad, which it never addresses, and to pretend that “extremism” can arise with equal strength and virulence from any religious group. It needs to be dismantled, and replaced with realistic and honest assessment of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror. The resignation of Selim is a step in the right direction.
“Obama holdover tasked with ‘Countering violent extremism’ resigns,” by Jordan Schachtel, Conservative Review, July 30, 2017:
George Selim, a prominent Obama administration holdover known for engaging fringe Islamic radicals, has resigned from the Department of Homeland Security. Selim left his post as director of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), a senior administration official who is not authorized to discuss personnel matters confirmed to Conservative Review Sunday.
The former DHS chief submitted his resignation Friday, following his testimony Thursday before the House Oversight Committee.
A DHS source familiar with the situation who is not permitted to discuss the matter publicly explained that Selim often clashed with Trump administration officials, who sought to do away with the past president’s policies. Senior officials effectively quashed Selim’s efforts to maneuver Obama White House policies and strategies into the new administration, leaving a frustrated Selim with resignation as his only option.
Conservative national security experts have almost unanimously condemned the CVE approach as an ineffective program (at its best), and one that empowers Islamist groups and undermines Muslim reformers (at its worst).
The CVE program is seen as dangerous because its inherent political correctness disallows counter-terror analysts from observing whether there is a religious component to radical Islamic terrorism. Under President Obama, countless Muslim Brotherhood-connected groups shuffled in and out of the White House to stake their claims in the debate.
These groups share an extremist, caliphatist worldview shared by the likes of ISIS and al-Qaida. While the well-intentioned Obama administration thought it was battling terror recruitment, its officials were arguably building a bridge to jihadism.
Not surprisingly, CVE failed to quantify any objective counterterrorism successes. Instead, the legacy of the Obama era includes a United States that is swamped by potential Islamic extremists, without much of a mechanism to de-radicalize these individuals (many of whom are homegrown radical Islamists). The FBI has now opened up terror-related investigations in all 50 states….
In his official duties, Selim admitted to hosting hundreds of meetings with officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamic advocacy group that federal prosecutors have labeled as a Muslim Brotherhood front group that was created to achieve the ends of Hamas (a U.S.-designated terrorist organization).
While Selim was empowering CAIR, the FBI took the opposite approach, as the Justice Department agency had sidelined the group due to its Islamist ties….
rubiconcrest says
What took him so long?
John Forbes says
What I totally am confused about is why the WESTERN politicians are so enamoured with this IDEOLOGY & why they totally refuse to stop parroting ! ISLAM is a RELIGION of PEACE when there are literally attacks somewhere in the WEST every day & massive attacks at RAMADAN ??
Then comes the UTTER determination to prevent any criticism of this ideology backed by the TERM ISLAMOPHOBIA ( created by the MUSLIMS & Adopted by our so called leaders) & then further protected by the most dangerous of IDEOLOGIES POLITICAL CORRECTNESS( SHUTTING DOWN FREE SPEECH) & THE MUST DAMAGING OF ALL – MULTICULTURALISM ?
When politicians are actually finally cornered & asked the fear of any answer is evident ??
What the hell has happened to the WEST & why are we all now so self destructive ???
We have the BEST democracies & life systems on the planet & seem determined to destroy this & the choices that we now have for our children & grand children ??? WHY ????
James Stamulis says
Because they take their orders from the globalists who are using Islam to destroy the heritage of western countries and create chaos out of which comes order mainly their NWO. They are sacrificing their countries for their sick Luciferian agenda.
tpog says
John Forbes. The saudis, uae and other like-minded wahhabi/salafist dictatorships have to be passing money under the table or are “donating” to family foundations (Clinton comes to mind). There has to be a quid pro quo that comes along with this largesse.
” Allow us to build mosques in your country and have wahhabi/salafist imams run them; we would like muslim organizations to help with educational materials; we can help with running this section of govt.” etc. etc.
The pols are not doing this out of kindness, money is at the bottom of it.
Donald R Laster Jr says
And that qualifies as treason under Article 3 since they are aiding an enemy waging war on the US. That enemy is called Islam. Every Mosque is an a foreign State facility used to aid the invasion of the US and other countries.
pandainc says
Absolutely. He has to stop screwing around, fill the appointments that O insidiously left behind and screw it. The president is rapidly becoming an example of helter-skelter. Generally, I like his style, but he has to stop this hire-and-fire method of management. Fire the O-sters, fill the jobs (if they require Senate approval and the Dems won’t allow votes, fill them anyhow and make a stink about it) and get on with getting these non-appointed buttheads out of out government. If you can’t fire them, stick all of them in designated rooms with no electronic systems, no cellphones, no reading materials, nothing but empty desks and chairs and let them rot. Most, after a bit, will quit from shear boredom.
Mark Swan says
Yes indeed pandainc.
somehistory says
Did he take his prayer rug with him, or was it too worn-out?
gravenimage says
Obama “Countering Violent Extremism” top dog who met with Hamas-linked CAIR hundreds of times resigns
…………………..
Glad this fifth columnist is finally gone.
Here’s what Daniel Greenfield of Front Page Magazine had to say about the CVE:
“What it really comes down to is paying Muslims to argue with other Muslims on social media. And hope that the Muslims we’re paying to do the arguing are the good kind of extremists, like the Muslim Brotherhood, and not the bad kind of extremists, like ISIS. Even though they’re both vicious killers.”
And:
“CVE not only doesn’t fight terrorism, it perpetuates the whole reason for it by outsourcing our interaction with domestic Muslims to the Saudis and the Muslim Brotherhood. That’s a big part of how we got a terrorism problem in the first place. CVE’s promoters have convinced us that the best way to fight Islamic terrorism is by partnering with Islamic terrorists.”
Mark Swan says
Very true gravenimage.
Robert_k says
George Selim
George would be a common Greek Orthodox name.
Salim (also spelled Saleem or Selim or Slim, Arabic: سليم , properly transliterated as Salīm) is a given name of Arabic origin meaning “safe” or “undamaged”, related names are Selima, Salima, Saleemah, and Salma.
Which would probably indicate a Greek Orthodox Arabic origin ala the late White House Press reporter, Helen Thomas.
Robert_k says
George Selim:
George is a common Greek Orthodox name, ala George Habash, Greek Orthodox founder of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
Salim (also spelled Saleem or Selim or Slim, Arabic: سليم , properly transliterated as Salīm) is a given name of Arabic origin meaning “safe” or “undamaged”, related names are Selima, Salima, Saleemah, and Salma.
So George Selim is probably of Greek Orthodox Arab origin, ala the late Helen Thomas, White House Press reporter (“The Jews should get out of Palestine and go back to Poland and Germany where they came from”).
gravenimage says
All true. George Selim is–alas–a dhimmi who probably took his dhimmitude to heart even after his family escaped Dar-al-Islam, and feels the need to spout apologia for Islam at all times. *Ugh*.
vlparker says
The Obama administration had good intentions? Methinks Jordan Schachtel needs to re-assess the situation.
Terry Gain says
He’s obviously very naive.
Mark Swan says
President Obama and his administration reigned over the most deliberate,
destructive, and deceptive harm ever carried out against this country.
Well meaning, he was, to those who do not insult the prophet of Islam.
We can just imagine, all the monsters, out there, in position to do harm.
This guy is a drop in the bucket.
But, good ridding to bad rubbish.
carol says
David Horowitz has an article in Frontpage Mag regarding “Obama and Disasters in the Middle East”:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267429/root-cause-disasters-middle-east-david-horowitz
Mark Swan says
Thank You carol—it is a good read.
Donald R Laster Jr says
I would say Mr Obama got what he wanted in the Middle East – violence and depravity of Islam revamped. After all, Mr Obama is an Islamic who was good at lying when he could prepare.
Wellington says
One knows or should know that CVE was a fraud from the get-go. It was just another pathetic attempt (replete with lies) to exculpate the worst religion ever invented by man. Unfortunately, such attempts are plentiful and so this is just one mistake hopefully gone while many, many more remain which have as their design putting lipstick on the ugliest pig of all time——–Islam.
mortimer says
CVE lets Muslims off the hook and declares Islam blameless for creating the JIHAD DOCTRINE and SUPREMACY DOCTRINE clearly taught in the Koran, hadiths and Sira…the three primary source texts of Islam.
Jihad is the CENTRAL ALLEGIANCE of all Muslims, just like the US Constitution is the central allegiance of all Americans.
billybob says
“The entire “Countering Violent Extremism” program … pretend[s] that “extremism” can arise with equal strength and virulence from any religious group. ”
I think it is much broader than that. I believe CVE lumps all extremist violence together, whether it is religiously motivated or purely politically motivated (such as the phenomenon of the “militias”), or racist (such as the KKK). In the eyes of CVE, Timothy McVeigh, Syed Farook & Tashfeen Malik, and even Anders Breivik would all be the same – “violent extremists” – and handled in exactly the same way.
Superficially there might seem to be some logic to such an approach, but in reality, this theory of CVE doesn’t help you to identify and address the diverse motivations of the actors in order to prevent them from acting.
mortimer says
CVE is a theory based on the MARXIST ECONOMIC THEORY of revolution. In fact, the MEANING of jihad is that ALLAH CALLED ARABS TO CREATE A WORLD EMPIRE, the MOTIVE of jihad is that Allah hates WRONG WORSHIP and HATES the ‘WRONG-WORSHIPPERS’ (kafirs) and finally the METHOD of jihad is to REMOVE THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES of women and kafirs.
Without learning the MEANING, the MOTIVE and the METHOD of jihad, Western elites CANNOT fight jihad-terrorism.
mortimer says
KEY QUOTE: “The CVE program is seen as dangerous because its inherent political correctness disallows counter-terror analysts from observing whether there is a religious component to radical Islamic terrorism.”
In fact, JIHAD is the MOST IMPORTANT ACTION IN ISLAM…more important even than PRAYER.
CVE is a TOTAL LIE. CVE claims that there NO connection between the JIHAD DOCTRINE and Islam. They may as well ask us to believe that there is no connection between the Christian evangelism and the New Testament or that there is no connection between MEDITATION and Buddhism or no connection between the HOLOCAUST and Nazism. In the previous examples, the ACTION is caused by the IDEOLOGY or DOCTRINE.
Islam is the IDEOLOGY that Allah commissioned Arabs to TAKE CONTROL OVER THE WORLD. JIHAD is the ACTION of ARABS TAKING CONTROL OVER THE WORLD.
Terry Gain says
“…..whether there is a religious component to radical Islamic terrorism.”
One wonders whether Obama wondered whether water was wet.
Donald R Laster Jr says
This is all part of Islam’s infiltration of countries and societies. Islam is a theocracy in which all of its citizens are obligated to take over non-Islamic countries and States. Terrorism is part of Islam’s “Jihad” or invasion modus operandi, and Mohammad practiced it on a regular basis, and the citizens of the State he founded have been doing it for 1400 years. Shar’iah law requires it and that is the law of State of Islam. No Islamic can ever be a loyal citizen or have fealty to a non-Islamic ruled State or country. You can not be both. A person may chose to worship Hubal but if they are Islamic they are a threat. Programs like these are designed to aid the infiltration of a foreign power, called Islam, into the US.
jewdog says
The new CVE: Countering Vapid Euphemisms.
Robeaver says
Should be. CVD. See the vD of Islam.
gravenimage says
Brilliant, Jewdog!
Guest says
Traces of Obama’s reign is being removed. Music to my ears.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
The swamp draining pumps need to be running night and day (with backups ready to go if they fail). The swamp is very deep and very mired.
traci94 says
Totally agree with you on this!
traci94 says
Here’s a couple of my many questions: did/does Obama WANT jihad in America? He certainly did nothing to prevent it. Does he WANT Sharia in America? I can’t really see Michelle in a burqa, and it’s hard for me to believe that’s what he wants for his children, but he promoted Islamic supremacy every chance he got. What was/is his motivating ideology? Maybe this guy’s resignation is a tiny step in the right direction! I just don’t see how you can remove religion as a motivating ideology. If individuals believe that their God demands death of unbelievers, demands that their religion must subjugate the entire world, how could that NOT be a motivating ideology?? It’s absolutely ridiculous and mind boggling.
Michael Copeland says
These individuals are INSTRUCTED….
“that their God demands death of unbelievers, demands that their religion must subjugate the entire world,”
It is basic Islamic doctrine.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Mr Obama is an Islamic and therefore he will use any means possible to destroy a non-Islamic State and then impose Islam. He will not care what happens to any one around him – that includes his wife or daughters. This is why Islamics works so hard to present their theocracy as a religion. People do not think of a religion being dangerous but if people understand that Islam is a government then they will pay more attention to what it promotes and requires. Remember, Mr Obama was indoctrinated in Islam as a child and deception is tool used by Islam to advance it agenda.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Obama’s father was a Mohammadin. That automatically made him a Mohammadin. He was raised and went to school in Indonesia. He was registered as a Mohammadin student. He talks about those days in Koran school in his autobiography.
Obama converted to Jeremiah Wright’s “flavour” of Christianity in Chicago. In this denomination approximately 50% claim to still be Mohammadins. (Interesting, but it is the only denomination I know of where “baptism” takes place without water.)
It is clear from 20-20 hindsight that he and Clinton had a hand in the “Arab Spring.”
Is Obama a Mohammadin? I’ll let you decide.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Jeremiah Wright’s Church abandoned Christianity a long time ago. What it promotes is “Black Liberation Theology” which is a racist Black centered version of “Liberation Theology”. “Liberation Theology” is nothing but Marxism with a veneer of Christian teachings wrapped around it. Two Popes back (John Paul II ?) rebuked the Roman Catholic Priests and Nuns in South America for promoting this ideology versus promoting Christianity. The current man acting as Pope came out of this environment and was probably one of the people who helped create this ideology considering his actions and words to date.
Sh. N. says
Any radical ideology including all religions are susceptible to extremism; on the top is Islam which its scripture sadistically reveals its extreme and violent attitude against non-muslems.
Robert_k says
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/a-breaking-point-for-muslim-representation/535428/
“He’s an Arab American of Egyptian and Lebanese descent.”
Prior to his work at the White House, Mr. Selim served as a Senior Policy Adviser at the DHS Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, advising Department leadership on policy issues at the intersection of civil liberties and homeland security. Mr. Selim has also worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, the Arab American Institute, and served one year of AmeriCorps service.
Donald R Laster Jr says
This is why people need to realize that Islam is a theocracy, a government with its laws from its god, and not a religion. The citizens of Islam are required to war wage and take over non-Islamic governments by any means possible.