Washington – The United States must ensure that immigrants are fully included in the fabric of American society to prevent violent ideologies from taking root at home, Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he opened a White House summit on countering extremism and radicalization.
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Joining local elected officials, community leaders and religious figures, Biden portrayed the U.S. as far better positioned than Europe, thanks to what he called America’s successful record at cultural integration.
Across the Atlantic, deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels and Denmark have left Europeans feeling vulnerable to the type of violent ideology promoted by the Islamic State group and once thought to be limited mostly to the Middle East and North Africa.
“National security flows from a sense of community,” Biden said, adding that the most important lesson the U.S. can learn is that “inclusion counts.”
Biden’s comments came at the start of a three-day conference highlighting domestic and international efforts to prevent extremists and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting and inspiring others, particularly disaffected young people. The conference is designed to share best practices and emerging strategies to prevent extremists from carrying out violent acts.
“When I say we have to be able to see one another, I’m not talking about surveillance, I’m not talking about cameras,” Biden said, calling for U.S. cities to treat immigrant communities with respect. “Technology cannot replace contact.”
this who people voted for a babbling idiot!
by treating some Cuban immigrant with more respect we will solve the problem
this country can eliminate isis in one day if it wants
but the anti semite in the white house a muslim doesn’t give a hoot
we are in deep s—
So what is Biden saying? That if we yiden all assimilate and get “fully included in the fabric of American society” then there wouldn’t be any need among us for various radicals such as modern orthoduffs, open orthoduffs, chovevei of who knows what? Very confusing for a simple mind like mine…
Right. Like putting a muslim in the white house really helps quell the extremist viewpoint…
Assimilation is nice, but the ONLY way to end Islamic terror is to militarily defeat them. Biden and State Dept quotes from today’s conference are simplistic and moronic. ISIS (Sunni) is not the “junior varsity squad” that Obama said it was 2 years ago. They control most of Iraq, half of Syria and are pressing in Libya. Shiite terror groups control Iran, most of Lebanon, half of Yemen and Gaza. What more do these people have to see before Israel, Europa and the U.S. are attacked again?
Does anyone take this man seriously?
You guys do realize that many jews (especially amoungst chasdim) oppose assimilation of any form also. They believe this is more dangerous to religion than oppression. The Bal Hatnaya was the strogest advocate of this during the Napelon days. He believed the russian czar was better tha Napolean for jews.
The stupidity of this present administration is beyond me. They do not know what they are dealing with. Islam is a supremacist religion/ideology. They laugh, scorn and mock Biden’s Western secular values. B’kitzur, they don’t want it and they are working on their 100 year plan to make the US a Muslim country, along with all the Western countries. This country appears to be run by dumb and o’dummer.
To stop them nuke them.
plenty of jews are not assimilated yet they don’t kill any body
Not a bad idea, I wonder how long it took to teach him to say it!
Failed policy of appeasement didn’t work in Israel it only created Hamas.
When will this administration wake up and stop begging for acceptan from blood hungry arab terrorists and Islamist ? Mr. Barak Husain Obama!!!
Were are all the Obama supporters on this one?? Would love to hear their point of view.