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Why Won’t GOP Chairman Mention ‘Islamic Terror’ in New Bill? *Print* *By:* Daniel Horowitz <https://www.conservativereview.com/search?keywords=Daniel+Horowitz&type=author> | July 20th, 2015 [image: Description: https://www.conservativereview.com/Commentary/2015/07/Why-Wont-GOP-Chairman-Mention-Islamic-Terror-in-New-Bill] *________________________________* *If you want to know where your member of Congress stands on the conservative spectrum and receive updates on the issues that matter most to conservatives, register for a **Conservative Review® **account today.* Register <https://www.conservativereview.com/user/signup/> It has nothing to do with combating homegrown Islamic terror, and in fact, is a verbatim reflection of this Administration’s agenda to expunge any mention of Islam from the growing terror threat. Here’s the good news: congressional Republicans finally have a bill to address the homegrown terror threat. The bad news? It has nothing to do with combating homegrown Islamic terror, and in fact, is a verbatim reflection of this Administration’s agenda to expunge any mention of Islam from the growing terror threat. Worse, this effort will likely enlist terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as CAIR – the unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism trial in U.S. history <http://www.nysun.com/national/islamic-groups-named-in-hamas-funding-case/55778/>, the Holy Land Foundation trial – in the effort to combat “extremism.” Last week, the House Committee on Homeland Security, led by Rep. Michael McCaul <https://www.conservativereview.com/Commentary/2015/07/~/link.aspx?_id=C8D2585F2DD54827A56B6F992AF29C5D&_z=z> (R-TX) passed the Countering Violent Extremism Act of 2015 <http://homeland.house.gov/press-release/bipartisan-support-congress-counter-violent-extremism> out of committee by voice vote. This legislation would create a new $40 million government agency within the Department of Homeland Security – the Office for Countering Violent Extremism – and would be tasked with working across the federal government and throughout communities to develop strategies and data concerning “violent extremism.” Freeze frame for a moment. Even if you’ve never heard of the term “Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE) and its broader agenda before reading this article, you should be highly skeptical. The fact that a Republican chairman is promoting a bill that does not contain a single reference to “Islamic” terrorism should at a minimum mystify even the most moderate Republican, and more rightfully so anger those who realize Islamic radicals are by far the number one domestic terrorism threat. The fact this bill creates a new agency during the Obama presidency with broad and vague powers to combat generic “extremists” should raise goose bumps on any conservative’s patriotic neck. Especially given reports <http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/20/obamas-dhs-report-warns-of-the-real-threat-to-america-right-wingers/> as recent as February of this year that the Department of Homeland Security considers “right wing” groups to be a greater threat than Islamic terror. Now take a trip down memory lane to mid-February when the White House conducted a summit <https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/18/fact-sheet-white-house-summit-countering-violent-extremism> on…you guessed it: Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). Not only did this summit abjure any effort to focus on Islamic terror, the White House invited the very Islamic extremist foxes to guard the hen house. As *Breitbart* reported at the time <http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/18/extremists-attending-obamas-countering-extremism-summit/>, several leaders of the Islamic Society of Boston, the mosque that has radicalized numerous terrorists including the Boston bombers, were invited to the summit. These individuals have actually persecuted moderate Muslims for cooperating with federal authorities to root out terrorists. The summit also featured Muslim extremists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood <http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/17/white-house-summit-features-muslim-leader-with-record-of-defending-terror-groups/>. Quite an Orwellian two-day fest, indeed. No wonder the Obama Administration refuses to mention the term or any variation of “Islamic radicals.” But the effort of our federal government to seamlessly parlay the threat of Islamic terror into a coined term “countering violent extremism,” runs much deeper than this year’s pro-Islamic summit at the White House. The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a California-based Islamic group with ties to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood <http://www.globalmbwatch.com/2012/11/29/mpac-report-names-25-inividuals-unqualifed-to-be-islam-experts-mpac-leaders-fail-their-own-test/>, has worked with government officials over the past decade to expunge all mention of Islamic terror from official reports assessing terrorism threats. Regarding ties to the MB, Andy McCarthy explains <http://www.nationalreview.com/article/313257/history-mpac-andrew-c-mccarthy> the connection in-depth. For starters, MPAC was founded by disciples of the Muslim Brotherhood and admirers of Hezbollah, and following 9/11, MPAC executive director defended Hezbollah and accused Israel of being complicit in the attacks. No wonder the Obama Administration refuses to mention the term or any variation of “Islamic radicals.” In his must-read magnum opus *Catastrophic Failure* <http://www.amazon.com/Catastrophic-Failure-Blindfolding-America-Jihad/dp/1511617500>, former intelligence officer Stephen Coughlin presents in painstaking detail how these subversive Islamic groups have succeeded in censoring all mention of Islamic terror from the federal government’s lexicon. [image: Description: https://www.conservativereview.com/~/media/Images/Conservative-Review/Article-Images/July-2015/CVE-agenda-chart.png?h=464&w=678&la=en&hash=7DC27001A90858384F97D31969CED1C693103B4A] In chapter 7 of the book, Coughlin shows how the bipartisan 9/11 Commission made reference to Muslims and Islam hundreds of times while barely using the terms “violent extremism.” In 2007, MPAC criticized the language <http://www.mpac.org/programs/government-relations/mpac-executive-director-testifies-before-us-house-committee-on-homeland-security.php> of the 9/11Commision’s references to Islamic terrorism and recommended that the government “find another terminology.” Not surprisingly, more recent intelligence reports and terror threat assessments have not mentioned the word Islam even once – just like the McCaul bill. Coughlin notes that DHS’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Division has taken the lead on pushing the “CVE” agenda when it published its training and guidance manual <http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/cve-training-guidance.pdf> on CVE in 2011. The manual instructs the bureaucrats to use examples to “demonstrate that terrorists and violent extremists vary in ethnicity, race, gender, and religion.” This is also not the first time McCaul has exhibited poor judgement in concocting a bill that advances Obama’s dangerous agenda while selling it as a conservative solution. Unfortunately, Rep. McCaul has a history of coddling CAIR’s leadership in his committee work on Homeland Security, as illustrated by this picture of him with their representatives as first reported by *Breitbart* <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/18/mccaul-writes-on-photo-with-islamic-leader-who-says-u-s-muslims-above-law/>. This is also not the first time McCaul has exhibited poor judgement in concocting a bill that advances Obama’s dangerous agenda while selling it as a conservative solution. Earlier this year he used his committee to promote a Trojan horse border bill that weakened current law <https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/01/mccaul-border-bill-a-trojan-horse-for-amnesty> but effectively adopted Obama’s premise about the nature of the border crisis. Last year, he purged a number of experienced immigration and counter-terrorism staffers from the committee <http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/homeland-security-committee-firings/?dcz=>, leaving a huge gap in savvy and institutional knowledge as it relates to issues like the CVE agenda. Conservative members of the House need to educate themselves quickly on the broader implications of this bill and where it is coming from. They must either block the bill or demand amendments that will actually align the substance of the bill with the plain language of the title. The best way to do this would be by designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and freezing its assets. There is no better way to “counter violent extremism” than by stopping the MB from engaging in subversion and funding radical mosques. It’s bad enough Republicans have no desire to stop Obama’s dangerous fundamental transformation of our country. 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