Posted on 01/11/2015 12:51:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, the White House has scheduled an anti-extremism conference that was originally set for last October but was postponed without explanation.
In a statement issued as many world leaders gathered in the French capital Sunday to express solidarity with France and to vow renewed efforts to fight violent Islamic radicalism, the White House announced that its summit on the issue of homegrown terrorism will take place next month.
"On February 18, 2015, the White House will host a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism to highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting, or inspiring individuals or groups in the United States and abroad to commit acts of violence, efforts made even more imperative in light of recent, tragic attacks in Ottawa, Sydney, and Paris," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement.
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson first announced the summit in September, as concern was growing about the threat posed by the Islamic State movement and by that group's recruitment of fighters in the West. Johnson said the high-level meeting would take place the following month.
However, it did not. In the lead-up to the midterm elections, White House spokesmen repeatedly refused to discuss the reason for the delay or even to confirm on the record that it had been postponed.
Last week's shooting rampage at a satirical French weekly and hostage-takings at two other sites in Paris refocused attention on the danger of so-called homegrown extremists carrying out attacks far from the places in the Middle East and Africa where such violence is more common.
Earnest said Sunday that the conference would address efforts being taken in the U.S., as well as promoting cooperation with similar work abroad.
"Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) efforts rely heavily on well-informed and resilient local communities. Boston, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis-St. Paul have taken the lead in building pilot frameworks integrating a range of social service providers, including education administrators, mental health professionals, and religious leaders, with law enforcement agencies to address violent extremism as part of the broader mandate of community safety and crime prevention," he said.
"At the same time, our partners around the world are actively implementing programs to prevent violent extremism and foreign terrorist fighter recruitment. The summit will include representatives from a number of partner nations, focusing on the themes of community engagement, religious leader engagement, and the role of the private sector and tech community," the White House spokesman added.
Some active in counter-violent extremism programs have described the White House's commitment to the issue as limited and uneven—waxing and waning depending on news events. Critics also say the effort lacks coordination and is distributed across too many government agencies, none of whom are accountable for its success.
More on that here and here.
Waiting for Robert Mugabe to RSVP.
The confab will be headed up by a machine-gun exporter to Narcos..?
A man who abandons to their deaths men desperately fighting on rooftops..?
I vomit on these Delayed Conference Summiteers!
Frau Merkel has already said she will be ‘washing her hair’ on that day.
This CVE program is a social program.....an empathy program as Hillary would put it.
The only solution is for countries to control their borders and to say “no” to any more immigration (legal or illegal) until their current population assimilates, with many who are already there being sent back to their homelands. Instead, they’ll talk about even more freedoms to take away from citizens, to accommodate being over-run by invaders.
It sounds like Barry wants to show off his Everybody Gets A Peace Prize Medal that the Nobel buffoons gave to him.
If their current population is Muslim, they’ll never assimilate. And most of them are not immigrants, refugees, or whatever you want to call them. Stopping more Muslim immigration may help, but at this point, Muslims are so imbedded that current immigration really doesn’t matter.
Why not get hostile immigrants off the welfare rolls (most of them, in France, the UK and here, live on government benefits), examine all of their histories and expel “immigrants” who are not with the program of their new country, jail those who have fought against us, or execute those who have killed us?
Obama Summits are BORING
Nah, he just needed more time to get the word out to the Brotherhood to wrap up their plans before Valentines Day.
Personally, I would rather take my chances with the Muslim terrorists rather than Holder and Obama.
Evil Christians, of course!
But they’ll all get free Whitehouse beer and collards from the garden.
LOL - Good on her - hopefully many more world leaders will be - especially after the insult of O'bummber sending an Atty Gen'l to rep the US in France today - There's a long list of dignitaries in the protocol line before the Atty Gen'l - and it starts with the leader of a country.
There are 40 some leaders of the free world marching in line there today -
This is a major snub. No doubt about it. Holder will be ignored by the leaders - not even invited for une tasse du cafe.
Of course, he will take it as RACISM - not protocol.p>this administration deliberately ignores protocol...with their in-your-face "we're above it all" attitude.
One of the worst was Moose-Shell at a big event banquet for Queen Elizabeth. She went bare-armed, as usual. there was not ONE other women at the banquet with bare arms. It just isn't done.
And I don't believe their flouting of protocol is ignorance. I believe it's deliberate...
Word is that although Obama sent Eric Holder over to France to attend the march, Holder never even showed up. Claims he was ‘busy’ talking to Govt. officials. What officials? Most the important people were in the march!! That’s what you call adding insult to injury. Of course it’s not an accident. Of course Obama is ‘cool with it’ that Holder played hookey from his duties.
He was probably meeting with the heads of the “no-go” zones.
Musloids are NOT extremists. The TEA party is extremist.
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