[{"sender": "Bill Siegel", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "3/8/2011 4:57:57 PM", "subject": null, "body": "Bill Siegel thought you might find this of interest:\nhttp://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8911/pub_detail.asp\nMarch 8, 2011\n\nDenis McDhimmi\nWhite House National Security Adviser Speaks to Hamas-Linked Group\n\nBill Siegel\n\nOn March 6, in anticipation of Congressional hearings on domestic radicalization, Deputy National Security Adviser\nDenis McDonough stated the following:\n\n“President Obama recognizes that through our words and deeds we can either play into al Qaeda’s narrative and\nmessaging or we can challenge it and thereby undermine it. We’re determined to undermine it. For example, we\nknow there are many different reasons why individuals—from many different faiths—succumb to terrorist\nideologies. And there is no one easy profile of a terrorist. But based on extensive investigations, research and\nprofiles of the violent extremists we’ve captured or arrested, and who falsely claim to be fighting in the name of\nIslam, we know that they all share one thing—they all believe that the United States is somehow at war with\nIslam, and that this justifies violence against Americans. So we are actively and aggressively undermining that\nideology. We’re exposing the lie that America and Islam are somehow in conflict. That is why President Obama\nhas stated time and again that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam.”\n\nThis statement encapsulates so much of what this writer has identified as the “Control Factor:” that function of\nour minds which will distort our perceptions so as not to present ourselves with the ever so fearful reality that\nconfronts us under the banner of Islam today. That is, rather than to clearly see, focus upon, and set about to\ncreate strategies to properly confront the threat which we currently face- a threat that by definition we do not\ncontrol and see little way over which to regain control- our minds essentially collude to reconstruct in a manner\nwhich deludes us with the sense that we are in control.\n\n1. The statement essentially reduces the threat we face to that of terrorism caused by al-Qaeda. By defining and\nlimiting the threat to a band of “radical extremists” who have distorted the doctrine of a great religion, we buy\ninto the sense that our military might and criminal detection methods will ultimately save the day. The fantasy is\nthat this is a problem that we can get our arms around because under our Constitutional principles, terrorism is a\nviolation that we are permitted to fight against."}]