“Don’t Be a Puppet”: New FBI CVE Tool Targets Young People

Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent Foundation ^ | November 25, 2015 | Talha Sabri

[hadit2here]

A report issued by the 9/11 Review Commission in May 2015 concluded that the FBI, as a law enforcement and intelligence agency, is not “an appropriate vehicle” for producing preventative programs for the US government’s Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program.

However, Laurie Goodstein writing for the New York Times recently reported about an interactive, video-styled program the FBI is set to introduce. The program—developed for teachers and students—aims to train them to prevent young people from being drawn into violent extremism.

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Although the website was scheduled to go live on November 2, 2015, it has since been put on hold following objections by community leaders representing Arab, Muslim and other civil rights organizations who were given a preview during a meeting with the FBI. It has been reported that those who saw the preview immediately raised serious objections, accusing the agency of having “misplaced priorities,” and asked that the program be cancelled.

In June 2015, the New York Times published statistics that strongly suggest that post-9/11 white supremacists and domestic terrorism have posed a much graver threat than radical Islamic extremists. However, according to a Washington Post article anti-Islam sentiments and hate crimes against Muslim communities in the United States are five times more common today than compared to 14 years ago. A 2010 Gallup poll suggests that about 48 percent of all American Muslims said they have experienced racial or religious discrimination.

[Chode]

kunbaya the videogame???

[Trillian]

What about all the violent extremism they’re teaching kids in colleges and universities?