Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial Are Crucial to Iran’s Founding Ideology
As well as its regional strategy.
May 31, 2016
The Violent Extremism Too Terrible to Call by Name
Our CVE strategy.
Recently the State Department and USAID produced a document titled Joint Strategy on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). Not once in the entire report do the words “Islam,” “Islamism,” or “Muslim” appear. The fact that the devisers of this strategy are unable to name their opponents is testimony, writes Elliott Abrams, to the bankruptcy of their thinking—and that bankruptcy in turn encourages anti-Muslim demagogy:
