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- DHS Goes Further Down the CVE Rabbit Hole
- Muslim Brothers Shut Out Critics
DHS Goes Further Down the CVE Rabbit Hole
By The Sharia TipSheet
August 13, 2019
Reposted at
The Department of Homeland Security is poised to spend $35 million on a new Center of Excellence in Terrorism Prevention and Counterterrorism Research. Universities will apply for grants to develop “multidisciplinary, customer-driven solutions while training the next generation of homeland security experts,” according to the press release announcing the Center. “Once awarded, this COE will leverage emerging technologies and analytic techniques to provide innovative solutions for preventing and countering terrorism,” the press release went on to say. The Center “will support academic-led innovation that supports DHS in staying a step ahead of emerging terrorist tactics.”
What does all this mean, exactly?
This publication asked DHS whether the new Center will focus on radical Islam and, if so, through what specific projects. A DHS press officer indicated he would put the question to a staff member working on the Center, but initially just provided another grant document instead.
This response being totally inadequate and not what was promised, the Sharia TipSheet contacted the press officer again:
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”
There was no response at all concerning the fate of DHS’ moves away from CVE early in the Trump administration. With regard to the Center of Excellence and its areas of focus, the press officer responded:
The press officer later provided an additional response from a program manager:
So, there you have it. The new Center will spend $35 million on fishing for new ‘comprehensive approaches’ to counter and prevent terrorism. Pardon my cynicism, but it is not at all clear the taxpayers will receive anything of value for their money given the homogenized, generic, CVE-flavored gobbledygook in the press release and grant document. This reminds me of an early experience I had as an intern with muckraker Jack Anderson. I learned that the Energy Department had conducted a study of a new technique to make gasoline burn more efficiently and cleaner at a cost of a penny a gallon. When I called up the Energy Department to find out what happened to the study, I was told that it was sitting on a shelf with all the other studies.
Meanwhile, the Koran still says 164 times in various ways ‘slay the infidel’. The words are still on the paper and they’re not going away. Your government wants you to believe those words had nothing to with the attacks on 9/11, Mumbai, or any of the hundreds of Islamist attacks since - that all those attacks were a perversion of Islam when in fact the Koran is very clear about what is to done with non-Muslims. The Sharia TipSheet has taken on the mission of forcing the issue and getting the federal government to come to grips with the fact that unvarnished Islamic doctrine in and of itself is a threat to the homeland.
That is what my FOIA case against the FBI is about, what my queries above to DHS are about, and what my letters to my contact in the White House are about. Job One for the federal government is to keep people safe and that can’t happen unless the government admits Islamic doctrine per se is a national security problem. There’s a lot of mindless romanticism about ‘inclusiveness’ these days, but the obvious question is why would we want to include people who want to kill us?
I will be monitoring the output of the Center of Excellence and reporting on it in future articles. Will it be overloaded with the fad du jour (e.g., white supremacy)? Will it advance the state of the art for dealing with radical Islam? Will it say anything about Islamic doctrine at all? Or will it be abstracted mush taking DHS further down the CVE rabbit hole? Only time will tell.
By The Sharia TipSheet
August 13, 2019
Reposted at
The Department of Homeland Security is poised to spend $35 million on a new Center of Excellence in Terrorism Prevention and Counterterrorism Research. Universities will apply for grants to develop “multidisciplinary, customer-driven solutions while training the next generation of homeland security experts,” according to the press release announcing the Center. “Once awarded, this COE will leverage emerging technologies and analytic techniques to provide innovative solutions for preventing and countering terrorism,” the press release went on to say. The Center “will support academic-led innovation that supports DHS in staying a step ahead of emerging terrorist tactics.”
What does all this mean, exactly?
This publication asked DHS whether the new Center will focus on radical Islam and, if so, through what specific projects. A DHS press officer indicated he would put the question to a staff member working on the Center, but initially just provided another grant document instead.
This response being totally inadequate and not what was promised, the Sharia TipSheet contacted the press officer again:
- The document you reference only mentions Islamist terrorism once and does not mention white supremacism or eco-terrorism at all.
- How can anything useful be developed concerning “integrat(ing) technologies and concepts into DHS operations to avoid, prevent, or stop a threatened or actual act of terrorism” if no specific group is being examined?
- Similarly, how can anything useful be developed concerning “break(ing) the cycle of recruitment, radicalization, and violence” if no specific group is being examined? Wouldn’t recruitment, for example, differ from group to group?
- Perhaps it is envisioned that specific groups will be the subject of the grants even though they’re not mentioned in the grant announcement. If that is the case, please advise as to what percentage of the Center’s activity is expected to be about:
- Abortion extremism
- Islamist extremism
- animal rights extremism
- environmental extremism
- sovereign citizen extremism
- anarchist extremism
- Puerto Rican extremism
- militia extremism
- white supremacist extremism
- black separatist extremism
- bombing matters
- other (please identify)
- Finally, the document is clearly written from a Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) point of view. Early in the Trump administration, it was reported that DHS was moving away from CVE in several ways. What happened to the initiatives listed below and why doesn’t the document you referenced reflect them?
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”
There was no response at all concerning the fate of DHS’ moves away from CVE early in the Trump administration. With regard to the Center of Excellence and its areas of focus, the press officer responded:
- I will try to get some more clarity on this issue for you, but in general, we did not itemize specific types of groups so as not to limit the thinking of the potential research. We’re not telling them who to study nor how to study it, but to propose what they would do with those mentioned goals in mind. We are looking to establish a new Center to conduct this research, and want to see what the various universities submit in their proposals.
The press officer later provided an additional response from a program manager:
- For the new Center of Excellence for Terrorism Prevention and Counterterrorism Research, DHS S&T [Science and Technology Directorate] seeks to competitively select the best lead and partner organizations that submit packages outlining the most comprehensive approaches to advance the Department’s ability to mitigate the terrorism threat and to develop, in our workforce, the capacities and capabilities to effectively protect the Homeland. The process solicits input from many subject matter experts outside and inside DHS to comment on the benefits and negative aspects of each of the packages we receive to provide the greatest benefit for the resources invested.
- While not specified in the RFP, we would certainly expect the Center to conduct research projects in the areas you mentioned. This is very early in the process and no formal decisions have yet been made on specific research projects at this stage.
So, there you have it. The new Center will spend $35 million on fishing for new ‘comprehensive approaches’ to counter and prevent terrorism. Pardon my cynicism, but it is not at all clear the taxpayers will receive anything of value for their money given the homogenized, generic, CVE-flavored gobbledygook in the press release and grant document. This reminds me of an early experience I had as an intern with muckraker Jack Anderson. I learned that the Energy Department had conducted a study of a new technique to make gasoline burn more efficiently and cleaner at a cost of a penny a gallon. When I called up the Energy Department to find out what happened to the study, I was told that it was sitting on a shelf with all the other studies.
Meanwhile, the Koran still says 164 times in various ways ‘slay the infidel’. The words are still on the paper and they’re not going away. Your government wants you to believe those words had nothing to with the attacks on 9/11, Mumbai, or any of the hundreds of Islamist attacks since - that all those attacks were a perversion of Islam when in fact the Koran is very clear about what is to done with non-Muslims. The Sharia TipSheet has taken on the mission of forcing the issue and getting the federal government to come to grips with the fact that unvarnished Islamic doctrine in and of itself is a threat to the homeland.
That is what my FOIA case against the FBI is about, what my queries above to DHS are about, and what my letters to my contact in the White House are about. Job One for the federal government is to keep people safe and that can’t happen unless the government admits Islamic doctrine per se is a national security problem. There’s a lot of mindless romanticism about ‘inclusiveness’ these days, but the obvious question is why would we want to include people who want to kill us?
I will be monitoring the output of the Center of Excellence and reporting on it in future articles. Will it be overloaded with the fad du jour (e.g., white supremacy)? Will it advance the state of the art for dealing with radical Islam? Will it say anything about Islamic doctrine at all? Or will it be abstracted mush taking DHS further down the CVE rabbit hole? Only time will tell.
Muslim Brothers Shut Out Critics
by Andrew Harrod
July 25, 2019
Reposted at The United West and Gates of Vienna
The email announcing the Eventbrite refund of my ticket for Washington, DC’s July 23-24 Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy conference clearly indicated to me a depressingly familiar tactic of controlled public relations. Once again defenders of Islam like the Hamas-derived Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had excluded the inquisitive eyes and ears of a known critic like me from participation in a purportedly public event.
Numerous past and present CAIR officials filled the conference schedule, like CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, Abbas Barzegar, Zahra Billoo, Robert McCaw, and Corey Saylor while CAIR had promoted the conference online. CAIR’s radical political allies like the past and present Congress members Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib also appeared in the conference lineup. New York City Muslim-American political activist Debbie Almontaser and the nationally known Gold Star father Khizr Khan also continued their long history of event appearances with CAIR.
Such CAIR involvement gave this author a foreboding feeling when he purchased a conference ticket. CAIR’s longstanding practice of strictly scrutinizing event attendees does not allow entry for anyone who would question CAIR’s pro-jihad/sharia affiliations. CAIR has accordingly refused this author admittance to CAIR’s gala dinner, as well as CAIR Capitol Hill and National Press Club briefings.
CAIR’s aversion to prying eyes reflects a broader pattern among its likeminded Islamist allies. Georgetown University Professor Jonathan Brown once ejected this author from a lecture, before outrageously proclaiming that Islamic doctrine precluded condemnation of slavery and sex slavery. Brown later similarly revoked this author’s invitation to a conference cohosted by Georgetown’s Saudi-established Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), which Brown directs.
Representative Omar’s own personal behavior at the conference continued this see, hear, and speak no evil maxim. As with a past refused request to condemn publicly Al Qaeda, she responded testily to a request to denounce Muslim practices of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) made by a fellow panelist, Muslims for Progressive Values President Ani Zonneveld. Omar claimed that such questions directed at Muslims were offensive and rejected commenting upon FGM, a horror that 98 percent of females suffer in Omar’s ancestral Somalia, the highest rate globally.
Contrary to Omar’s no comment policy, the conference’s very agenda raises disturbing questions that questioning reporters should raise. Her fellow panelist Khan rose to prominence on the basis of rebuking presidential candidate Donald Trump with the heartbreaking sacrifice of Khan’s son, an army captain killed during the Iraq war. Yet the CAIR official and conference participant Billoo has scandalously shown contempt for America’s war dead.
Even more disturbingly, Khan shared a conference panel with Omar and gushed over this radical’s role in supposedly strengthening a diverse America. The names of her and others “will be written with golden letters on the pages of history,” he stated. Contrastingly, other Americans will more remember how she slandered American military personnel as indiscriminate killers during the 1993 international relief operation in Somalia.
Such conference content caused American Muslim reformer Zuhdi Jasser to term the event a collection of “Islamist all-stars,” a description that shades even more negatively the conference’s attempts at political influence. Given the modern American Muslims’ heavily Democratic-leaning political proclivities, conference organizers had invited the Democratic 2020 presidential candidates to attend. That only Senator Elizabeth Warren agreed to make a livestream address disappointed the organizers.
Leading Democrats may have stayed away from CAIR and its allies at the conference for now, but Americans as a whole should demand closer scrutiny of these groups. In particular, Democrat public figures attending such future events must face difficult questions about who does and does not attend according to gatekeepers guarding against “Islamophobia.” A free public has a right to know what these self-identified Muslim conclaves mean for the wider body politic.
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Andrew E. Harrod, PhD, JD, Esq. is the author of over 150 articles online and in print concerning various political, religious, and international relations topics.
by Andrew Harrod
July 25, 2019
Reposted at The United West and Gates of Vienna
The email announcing the Eventbrite refund of my ticket for Washington, DC’s July 23-24 Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy conference clearly indicated to me a depressingly familiar tactic of controlled public relations. Once again defenders of Islam like the Hamas-derived Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had excluded the inquisitive eyes and ears of a known critic like me from participation in a purportedly public event.
Numerous past and present CAIR officials filled the conference schedule, like CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, Abbas Barzegar, Zahra Billoo, Robert McCaw, and Corey Saylor while CAIR had promoted the conference online. CAIR’s radical political allies like the past and present Congress members Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib also appeared in the conference lineup. New York City Muslim-American political activist Debbie Almontaser and the nationally known Gold Star father Khizr Khan also continued their long history of event appearances with CAIR.
Such CAIR involvement gave this author a foreboding feeling when he purchased a conference ticket. CAIR’s longstanding practice of strictly scrutinizing event attendees does not allow entry for anyone who would question CAIR’s pro-jihad/sharia affiliations. CAIR has accordingly refused this author admittance to CAIR’s gala dinner, as well as CAIR Capitol Hill and National Press Club briefings.
CAIR’s aversion to prying eyes reflects a broader pattern among its likeminded Islamist allies. Georgetown University Professor Jonathan Brown once ejected this author from a lecture, before outrageously proclaiming that Islamic doctrine precluded condemnation of slavery and sex slavery. Brown later similarly revoked this author’s invitation to a conference cohosted by Georgetown’s Saudi-established Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), which Brown directs.
Representative Omar’s own personal behavior at the conference continued this see, hear, and speak no evil maxim. As with a past refused request to condemn publicly Al Qaeda, she responded testily to a request to denounce Muslim practices of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) made by a fellow panelist, Muslims for Progressive Values President Ani Zonneveld. Omar claimed that such questions directed at Muslims were offensive and rejected commenting upon FGM, a horror that 98 percent of females suffer in Omar’s ancestral Somalia, the highest rate globally.
Contrary to Omar’s no comment policy, the conference’s very agenda raises disturbing questions that questioning reporters should raise. Her fellow panelist Khan rose to prominence on the basis of rebuking presidential candidate Donald Trump with the heartbreaking sacrifice of Khan’s son, an army captain killed during the Iraq war. Yet the CAIR official and conference participant Billoo has scandalously shown contempt for America’s war dead.
Even more disturbingly, Khan shared a conference panel with Omar and gushed over this radical’s role in supposedly strengthening a diverse America. The names of her and others “will be written with golden letters on the pages of history,” he stated. Contrastingly, other Americans will more remember how she slandered American military personnel as indiscriminate killers during the 1993 international relief operation in Somalia.
Such conference content caused American Muslim reformer Zuhdi Jasser to term the event a collection of “Islamist all-stars,” a description that shades even more negatively the conference’s attempts at political influence. Given the modern American Muslims’ heavily Democratic-leaning political proclivities, conference organizers had invited the Democratic 2020 presidential candidates to attend. That only Senator Elizabeth Warren agreed to make a livestream address disappointed the organizers.
Leading Democrats may have stayed away from CAIR and its allies at the conference for now, but Americans as a whole should demand closer scrutiny of these groups. In particular, Democrat public figures attending such future events must face difficult questions about who does and does not attend according to gatekeepers guarding against “Islamophobia.” A free public has a right to know what these self-identified Muslim conclaves mean for the wider body politic.
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Andrew E. Harrod, PhD, JD, Esq. is the author of over 150 articles online and in print concerning various political, religious, and international relations topics.
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"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.
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