The White House says its finalizing a strategy to combat violent extremism in America, and is speaking publicly about it just a few days before Rep. Peter King (R-NY) holds hearings on “Muslim radicalization.” (On Sunday, in a move The New York Times called “no accident,” White House Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough gave a speech at a Muslim center in Virginia, laying out the administration’s efforts.)The strategy, according to the White House, includes working to better understand how people become radicalized, expanding engagement with communities targeted by terrorist recruiters, increasing support to those targeted communities, more coordination with authorities on the state and local level and, finally, improving the administration’s own communication about the threat of local extremism.
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