Sharia TipSheet
5/14/19 Federal Government
Getting Counterterrorism Training Back on Track
STS' recent letter to the White House:
I noted with interest the elevation of Kevin McAleenan as acting Secretary of Homeland Security. While the border grabbed all the headlines, I am writing to bring another equally important national security issue to your attention, the corruption of counterterrorism training at DHS and elsewhere in the federal government.
The federal government, DHS included, fails to understand the threat from radical Islam. President Trump personally is not afraid to name the enemy, but agencies like the FBI and Homeland Security are stuck in a Muslim Brotherhood-inspired paradigm known as CVE (Countering Violent Extremism). Starting in 2011 and 2012, the Obama administration began to purge traditional counterterrorism training and trainers to make way for CVE. CVE, as you undoubtedly know, equates radical Islam that brought us 9/11 with animal rights extremists. It’s laughable, but CVE has succeeded in its aims - lumping all threats together in order to obfuscate the threat from radical Islamist ideology. I even have documents, obtained in my FOIA case against the FBI and Justice Department, that CVE now is about community engagement when people seem poised to become violent, and no longer about counterterrorism training at all. (my Bates 4465, 5770)
Among the problems with CVE: you can’t have the enemy inside the wire telling us how to regard the enemy, but that is precisely what we have done. Now we learn CVE has been so watered down (due to persistent lobbying by Islamists), it isn’t even counterterrorism training any more. How can the federal government keep the country safe if it won’t train its people how to do it?
At the beginning of the Trump administration, DHS began to move away from CVE (see list below) while the FBI did not (thus prompting my case against the FBI). However, progress at DHS came to a screeching halt when Kirstjen Nielsen was appointed Secretary. The way I heard the story, she likes CVE and acted to keep it.
Her departure is an opportunity for a fresh start. Please convey my concerns to relevant parties. I implore the federal government to get counterterrorism training back on track.
I stand ready to assist in any way and, also, to put you in touch with experts who are far more knowledgeable than me on the subject, because they lived through the purge personally.
SY.
STS
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Changes Initially Made at DHS Regarding CVE
a) rebranding Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) as “terrorism prevention”
b) rebranding CVE as “Countering Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Radical Islamic Extremism”
c) undertaking an end-to-end review of all CVE programs
d) developing a new counterterrorism strategy
e) shifting counterterrorism grants from community engagement to law enforcement
f) cutting staff working on CVE
g) downgrading authority of remaining CVE staff
h) reformulating counterterrorism programs to be risk-based
i) reformulating counterterrorism programs to be intelligence-driven
j) reformulating counterterrorism programs to be proven effective
k) reformulating counterterrorism programs to be focused on front-line actors
l) reorganizing an Office of Terrorism Prevention Partnerships to “lead the charge”
Getting Counterterrorism Training Back on Track
STS' recent letter to the White House:
I noted with interest the elevation of Kevin McAleenan as acting Secretary of Homeland Security. While the border grabbed all the headlines, I am writing to bring another equally important national security issue to your attention, the corruption of counterterrorism training at DHS and elsewhere in the federal government.
The federal government, DHS included, fails to understand the threat from radical Islam. President Trump personally is not afraid to name the enemy, but agencies like the FBI and Homeland Security are stuck in a Muslim Brotherhood-inspired paradigm known as CVE (Countering Violent Extremism). Starting in 2011 and 2012, the Obama administration began to purge traditional counterterrorism training and trainers to make way for CVE. CVE, as you undoubtedly know, equates radical Islam that brought us 9/11 with animal rights extremists. It’s laughable, but CVE has succeeded in its aims - lumping all threats together in order to obfuscate the threat from radical Islamist ideology. I even have documents, obtained in my FOIA case against the FBI and Justice Department, that CVE now is about community engagement when people seem poised to become violent, and no longer about counterterrorism training at all. (my Bates 4465, 5770)
Among the problems with CVE: you can’t have the enemy inside the wire telling us how to regard the enemy, but that is precisely what we have done. Now we learn CVE has been so watered down (due to persistent lobbying by Islamists), it isn’t even counterterrorism training any more. How can the federal government keep the country safe if it won’t train its people how to do it?
At the beginning of the Trump administration, DHS began to move away from CVE (see list below) while the FBI did not (thus prompting my case against the FBI). However, progress at DHS came to a screeching halt when Kirstjen Nielsen was appointed Secretary. The way I heard the story, she likes CVE and acted to keep it.
Her departure is an opportunity for a fresh start. Please convey my concerns to relevant parties. I implore the federal government to get counterterrorism training back on track.
I stand ready to assist in any way and, also, to put you in touch with experts who are far more knowledgeable than me on the subject, because they lived through the purge personally.
SY.
STS
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Changes Initially Made at DHS Regarding CVE
a) rebranding Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) as “terrorism prevention”
b) rebranding CVE as “Countering Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Radical Islamic Extremism”
c) undertaking an end-to-end review of all CVE programs
d) developing a new counterterrorism strategy
e) shifting counterterrorism grants from community engagement to law enforcement
f) cutting staff working on CVE
g) downgrading authority of remaining CVE staff
h) reformulating counterterrorism programs to be risk-based
i) reformulating counterterrorism programs to be intelligence-driven
j) reformulating counterterrorism programs to be proven effective
k) reformulating counterterrorism programs to be focused on front-line actors
l) reorganizing an Office of Terrorism Prevention Partnerships to “lead the charge”
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Sharia TipSheet
"Islam Will Be Victorious" - bumper sticker seen in the U.S.
How many true religions do you know that talk like that?
The answer is none. But, then again, Islam is not a religion. It seeks world domination. It claims to be a superior way of life, not just religiously and spiritually, but politically, socially, and economically. It also seeks to impose an all-encompassing legal system (sharia) to control every aspect of human existence here on earth. Islam is a totalitarian world-government-in-waiting with just enough religious veneer to confuse people. Because it strays far beyond the religious and spiritual realms into the political, legal, social, and economic arenas, Islam has forfeited any special standing or regard ordinarily given to true religions (tax-exempt status, freedom of religion under the First Amendment, our goodwill, etc.).
The Islamists have a comprehensive, carefully thought-out plan to achieve world domination and they are working the plan in every corner of the globe, including the United States. The rest of the world must unite and refuse to let Muslims take over the entire planet as they have actively been seeking from the very beginning of Islam. Militant Islam, Islamist radicals, and the imposition of sharia law in America must be opposed at every turn. The Sharia TipSheet endeavors to arm critics of radical Islam with the truth and raise public awareness that Islam and sharia law are not benign ideologies but are, instead, cancerous at their core and will eventually prove fatal to Western liberal democracy and the American way of life if left unchecked.
For documentation of the TipSheet's worldview, good starting points include -
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The Sharia TipSheet is independently produced.
Not affiliated with any group.
"Islam Will Be Victorious" - bumper sticker seen in the U.S.
How many true religions do you know that talk like that?
The answer is none. But, then again, Islam is not a religion. It seeks world domination. It claims to be a superior way of life, not just religiously and spiritually, but politically, socially, and economically. It also seeks to impose an all-encompassing legal system (sharia) to control every aspect of human existence here on earth. Islam is a totalitarian world-government-in-waiting with just enough religious veneer to confuse people. Because it strays far beyond the religious and spiritual realms into the political, legal, social, and economic arenas, Islam has forfeited any special standing or regard ordinarily given to true religions (tax-exempt status, freedom of religion under the First Amendment, our goodwill, etc.).
The Islamists have a comprehensive, carefully thought-out plan to achieve world domination and they are working the plan in every corner of the globe, including the United States. The rest of the world must unite and refuse to let Muslims take over the entire planet as they have actively been seeking from the very beginning of Islam. Militant Islam, Islamist radicals, and the imposition of sharia law in America must be opposed at every turn. The Sharia TipSheet endeavors to arm critics of radical Islam with the truth and raise public awareness that Islam and sharia law are not benign ideologies but are, instead, cancerous at their core and will eventually prove fatal to Western liberal democracy and the American way of life if left unchecked.
For documentation of the TipSheet's worldview, good starting points include -
- Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad by Stephen Coughlin
- The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America by Andrew McCarthy
- Shariah The Threat to America from the Center for Security Policy (the 'Team B Report' - Frank Gaffney, co-author)
- A JOURNALIST’S GUIDE TO VETTING MUSLIM LEADERS AND MOSQUES (see below)
"Wow, this is really great" - S.
(also useful for law enforcement officers) - Primer on fighting mosque construction applications:
“MOSQUES IN AMERICA: A Guide to Accountable Permit Hearings and Continuing Citizen Oversight” by Karen Lugo, Esq. - Interfaith Dialogue: Ask the Imam - 'Interfaith dialogue' is a weapon of war. This two-page brief prepares you to counter-attack. Sample Question -- Why is the testimony of a woman only worth half that of a man in an Islamic court? (see below)
- Essentials of Sharia from “Reliance of the Traveller” - "fight people until they testify that there is no god but Allah", "non-Muslim subjects are obliged to comply with Islamic rules", and other gems from the 'religion of peace'. (see below)
- Sharia Law for the Non-Muslim (see below)
- Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America by Ann Corcoran (see below)
- Backyard Jihad: How Parents Can Detect the Invisible Threat of Radicalization by Valerie Greenfield
review by noted writer Andrew Harrod here
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The Sharia TipSheet is independently produced.
Not affiliated with any group.
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