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Article: COMMITTEE EXPLORES ROOTS OF IDEOLOGY THAT LEADS TO TERRORISM
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 10, 2008
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee issued the following news release:
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Thursday heard testimony about the ideological roots that lead to violent Islamist extremism and what the U.S. can do to diminish the influence of the ideology here at home.
At the Committee's seventh hearing in a series on Islamist radicalization and homegrown terrorism, witnesses distinguished between Islamist ideology - which has a political agenda - and Islam the religion, and outlined steps that should be taken to identify, isolate and ultimately eliminate the threat of homegrown terrorism and the ...