Foreign policy columnist Tom Rogan rejected the Obama administration’s claim that not calling Islamic terrorism “Islamic” will bring Muslim countries into the fight against extremism, saying Muslim leaders will see through the White House’s concession to “political correctness.”
“The number one thing that you have to do is to stop trying to put this point of view across, that the way to win the respect of the world is to concede to political correctness,” he told Fox News on Friday.
“The way to do that is to be specific about the binary threat — on the one hand, Salafi jihadism, on the other, Iranian-supported jihadism under the Hameni brand,” Rogan continued. “And that unless you do that, governments and people are not going to coalesce alongside you.”
“The [violent extremism] summit this week, unfortunately, has been an example of confusion,” he said. “And that confusion pervades our political strategy, and it forces and encourages very negative political strategies on the part of both allies and enemies alike.”
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