The leftover official responsible for implementing former President Barack Obama’s failed “Countering Violent Extremism” program resigned from the Department of Homeland Security, just three days before DHS Secretary John Kelly was promoted to Chief of Staff at the White House.
President Donald Trump’s deputies intend to overhaul President Barack Obama’s “Countering Violent Extremism” program to focus only on Islamist extremism, says Reuters.
The article repeatedly describes the failure of Obama’s anti-jihadi strategy to win support from the hard-line Islamic political groups, or even the cooperation of mosque clerics who declare themselves to be legitimate political leaders of Muslims living inside the United States.
The encounter between Senator Ted Cruz and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson over the “scrubbing” of Islamic terminology and Islamist networks from federal anti-terror plans was terrifying to watch — because it showed that President Barack Obama’s appointees are a clique of arrogant, disdainful, narrow-minded and gullible amateurs.
During a visit to Orlando on Tuesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch promised that the Justice Department is “making $1 million in emergency funding available to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement,” even as Florida Governor Rick Scott’s request for $5 million in FEMA disaster relief was denied.
One of the reasons Western liberal culture has so much difficulty grappling with the reality of radical Islam is that liberals think religion, in general, is a quaint hobby no one is really serious about. Islam, however, has a code of law called sharia, which is meant to transcend secular law.
Deep within an article about the “high bar for when a person becomes a terror threat,” the Boston Globe reveals that the feds got lucky and tripped over a few of those threats.
Last week’s terror attack by an Islamic jihadist on the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando was not actually Islamic terrorism, says a Muslim activist invited to serve on President Barack Obama’s homeland security advisory council. The message from activist and advisor Laila Alawa
The battle to control the Omar Mateen storyline rages on, as the Obama Administration seeks to portray him as a force of nature – an utterly undetectable, “self-radicalized,” “lone wolf” who was hermetically sealed from the world of Islamic radicalism.
House Republican leaders quickly staged a show-vote in response to Sunday’s terrorist shooting massacre at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub, and passed the Countering Terrorist Radicalization Act 402 to 15 votes.
House GOP leaders are set to endorse President Barack Obama’s failed domestic anti-jihad strategy, according to Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert.
The jihad-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations today endorsed President Barack Obama’s heated criticism of Donald Trump’s ambitious anti-jihad policy, which would include a temporary ban on the immigration of Muslims from countries with a history of radical Islam.
