Former President Obama’s “Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE) top dog, George Selim, who met with Hamas-linked CAIR hundreds of times, has resigned Friday, following his testimony Thursday before the House Oversight Committee.
A senior administration official who is not authorized to discuss personnel matters confirmed the resignation to Conservative Review on Sunday.
A DHS source familiar with the situation who is not permitted to discuss the matter publicly explained that Selim often clashed with Trump administration officials, who sought to do away with the past president’s policies. Senior officials effectively quashed Selim’s efforts to maneuver Obama White House policies and strategies into the new administration, leaving a frustrated Selim with resignation as his only option.
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Conservative national security experts have almost unanimously condemned the CVE approach as an ineffective program (at its best), and one that empowers Islamist groups and undermines Muslim reformers (at its worst).
The CVE program is seen as dangerous because its inherent political correctness disallows counter-terror analysts from observing whether there is a religious component to radical Islamic terrorism. Under President Obama, countless Muslim Brotherhood-connected groups shuffled in and out of the White House to stake their claims in the debate.
These groups share an extremist, caliphatist worldview shared by the likes of ISIS and al-Qaida. While the well-intention Obama administration thought it was battling terror recruitment, its officials were arguably building a bridge to jihadism.
Not surprisingly, CVE failed to quantify any objective counter-terrorism successes.
Instead, the legacy of the Obama era includes a United States that is swamped by potential Islamic extremists, without much of a mechanism to de-radicalize these individuals (many of whom are homegrown radical Islamists).
While Selim was empowering CAIR, the FBI took the opposite approach, as the Justice Department agency had sidelined the group due to its Islamist ties.
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch stated concerning this development, “The entire “Countering Violent Extremism” program is an attempt to divert attention away from Islamic jihad, which it never addresses, and to pretend that “extremism” can arise with equal strength and virulence from any religious group. It needs to be dismantled, and replaced with realistic and honest assessment of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror.”
“The resignation of Selim is a step in the right direction.”
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