We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
The best way to prevent the homegrown-inspired attacks is literally positive engagement with Muslim communities. Making sure that any immigrant population that comes into America assimilates, becomes part of our culture. That has been our history; it has made us strong.
To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.
We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.