Why is Donald Trump so WEAK when it comes to fighting Non-Islamic Extremism?
The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters.
The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," or CVE, would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," the sources said, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-extremists-program-exclusiv-idUSKBN15G5VO?feedType=RSS&feedName=newsOne
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On Sunday night, Alexandre Bissonnette, a 27-year-old white man, opened fire inside a Quebec City mosque, killing six people and wounding eight others. Witnesses said the mosque gunman fired indiscriminately into the crowd of worshipers, which included men, women and children.
When news first broke of the shooting, right-wing outlets erroneously depicted the shooter as Muslim. Fox News wrote in a now-deleted tweet: “Suspect in Quebec mosque terror attack was of Moroccan origin, reports show.” The tweet was one of many uncorrected media reports about the suspected shooter’s ethnic origins. Many outlets simply did not cover the shooting at all.
A spokeswoman for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately criticized Fox News and said the coverage was “perpetuating fear and division” and “dishonour(ed) the memory of the six victims and their families by spreading misinformation.” Fox later said they corrected their tweet and story.
Trudeau called the mass shooting a terrorist attack on Muslims, yet after the details of the shooting had become clear and thousands gathered across Canada at vigils, the silence from the White House was deafening.
Two days after the shooting and less than a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting Muslims and refugees, the White House offered no public condolences to its Canadian ally or to Muslims in the U.S.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-quebec-mosque-attack_us_5891f68ae4b0c90eff01328c
It seems to me that if the extremist in question isn't a Muslim or if the victim is, seems Trump is kind of... impotent. Now we should be nice and not spread the word that Donald Trump is impotent when it comes to certain kinds of extremism, we shouldn't say he's weak in certain areas, and we really shouldn't say that maybe he isn't cut out for the job.
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It's like he is saying domestic extremists aren't a threat. Bullshit. He's given the far right another reason to celebrate.
