Critics decry Trump plan to limit counter-extremism program

2/2/17

Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam

       By Julia Edwards Ainsley , Dustin Volz and Kristina Cooke

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.

Critics decry Trump plan to limit counter-extremism program

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