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ANTI-RADICAL ISLAM GUEST #2: Ilya Feoktistov, is the Director of Research at Americans for Peace and Tolerance.
The Obama Administration is conducting a national conference on combating terror, and has chosen Boston as one of three model cities where authorities have a good working relationship with the Muslim community. In fact, Boston may be the most important US city where radical Muslim leaders are building an extremist base of followers.
The Obama Administration is now planning to hold a conference based on its program to “Counter Violent Extremism” in February. It has identified Boston as one of three cities where Administration policies are preventing radicalization of the Muslim community. Boston is said to be a model for others cites to emulate, because, it “has taken the lead in building pilot frameworks integrating … religious leaders, with law enforcement agencies to address violent extremism.”
In fact, the exact opposite is true: Boston has one of the most dysfunctional relationships between law enforcement and Islamic religious leaders in the country. Most of the Boston religious leaders relied upon by law enforcement agencies in the city to help counter extremism in their communities are themselves extremists. Many of them are connected to terrorist activity and have been caught inciting Boston Muslims against the U.S. government and system of justice when they think no one is looking. The institutions run by many of Boston’s Muslim leaders have produced 11 people who are either in jail for terrorist crimes, on the run from federal authorities, or killed during a terrorist attack.
Far from being a positive anti-radicalizing model, Boston is actually a model for how Islamic radicalism is created, developed and spread. As the Boston Marathon bombings showed, the Obama Administration’s willingness to be deceived by false moderates can have drastic consequences.
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