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President Barack Obama‘s advisers will remove religious terms such as “Islamic extremism” from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.

The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: “The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century.”

The officials described the changes on condition of anonymity because the document still was being written, and the White House would not discuss it. But rewriting the strategy document will be the latest example of Obama putting his stamp on U.S. foreign policy, like his promises to dismantle nuclear weapons and limit the situations in which they can be used.

The revisions are part of a larger effort about which the White House talks openly, one that seeks to change not just how the United States talks to Muslim nations, but also what it talks to them about, from health care and science to business startups and education.

That shift away from terrorism has been building for a year, since Obama went to Cairo, Egypt, and promised a “new beginning” in the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. The White House believes the previous administration based that relationship entirely on fighting terror and winning the war of ideas.

via FOXNews.com – Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document.

Yeah, winning the war on ideas on Islamists is so wrong, isn’t it? Let’s don’t discuss flogging, honor killings and the infidels’ beheadings that happens along the world…

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• AP: Obama to delete references to Islamic extremism from national-security policy (hotair.com) “It does have one effect, although certainly not the one Barack Obama intends.  It makes us look weak and afraid of radical Islamists in general.  It also makes us look dishonest, and it insults the intelligence of everyone Obama aims to impress.  This kind of exercise asks Muslims to engage in intellectual dishonesty, rather than challenge them to oppose the radical Islamists in their midst and defeat that ideology.” No, the problem is that the new White House doesn’t consider as a priority winning the war of ideas against the Jihadists. Does anyone consider what would have happened if in WWII the Allies wouldn’t have wanted to win the war of ideas against Nazism?

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