Federal DHS grants on extremism concern Muslims in Michigan
The week before Donald Trump was inaugurated last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a Lebanese-American group in Dearborn $500,000 as part of a government effort to counter violent extremism known as CVE. The department also gave Dearborn Police $51,000 as part of the program. But the grants drew backlash from Arab-American and […]
White House budget slashes program to fight violent extremism at home
The suspect in the Manchester bombing, Salman Abedi, wasn’t unknown to UK counterterrorism officials. In fact, members of the Libyan community where Abedi lived had reported him before, worried about some of the views he was expressing. That kind of keeping an eye out, as a community, is exactly what the “Countering Violent Extremism” program […]
Trump’s counterterror programme
On January 21, one day after US President Donald Trump was sworn into office, the resistance was inaugurated by way of women’s marches across the country. Muslim-Americans were prominent in these marches, with civil rights leaders such as Linda Sarsour organising and addressing the Washington, DC, crowd, and Muslim American women leading offshoot marches. The […]
The liberal arts as antidote to political extremism in Mideast
With Daesh-inspired terror attacks becoming an almost routine occurrence, there is renewed attention on developing strategies for countering violent extremism across the globe. As we speak, studies are being commissioned, hearings held and conferences planned to develop and promote programmes to interrupt the processes of radicalisation and to support the transformation of frustrated, disenfranchised youth […]
Homeland Security Chief Is Hijacking the Tragedy of 9/11 to Boost His Mass Surveillance Agenda
From the outset, federal Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs have been rocked by accusations of human rights violations, including charges that they unfairly target Muslim communities with suspicionless surveillance and thought policing. But on the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Department of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson took to the national media […]
Keith Ellison, Muslim lawmaker, says N.C. murders are anti-Islam hate crime
The first Muslim elected to Congress told a White House conference on violent extremism Wednesday that prosecuting the murders of three young Muslims in North Carolina as a hate crime would help to counter terrorists’ recruiting efforts in America. Rep. Keith Ellison, Minnesota Democrat, dismissed comments by police in Chapel Hill that the three victims […]