{"id":3017,"date":"2017-02-02T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2017-02-02T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:21:52","slug":"goodbye-cve-crie-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2017\/02\/goodbye-cve-crie-river.html","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye CVE, CRIE me a river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presented without comment for now, though I will have more to say on this later.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON\/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>The program, &#8220;Countering Violent Extremism,&#8221; or CVE, would be changed to &#8220;Countering Islamic Extremism&#8221; or &#8220;Countering Radical Islamic Extremism,&#8221; 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For counterpoint, here is President Obama explaining why he didn&#8217;t use the phrase &#8220;radical Islam&#8221; &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Obama: Use of &#039;radical Islam&#039; just a &#039;political distraction&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e_wYKDTzyIg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Life imitates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-en-35788\" target=\"_blank\">art<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented without comment for now, though I will have more to say on this later. WASHINGTON\/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) &#8211; 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,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[24,28,71,174,35],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hirabah-watch","category-the-gash-of-civilizations","tag-islam","tag-muslims","tag-terrorism","tag-war-on-terror","tag-wombat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Goodbye CVE, CRIE me a river - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Goodbye CVE, CRIE me a river - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Presented without comment for now, though I will have more to say on this later. 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City of Brass is his weblog, which was founded in 2002 under the name UNMEDIA. He is a co-founder of the annual Brass Crescent Awards. The name City of Brass refers to the Story of the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name: Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. -- Thousand and One Nights, Story of the City of Brass IN A land that the sand overlays, the ways to her gates are untrod, A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! -- Rudyard Kipling, The City of Brass (1909)"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}