extremism problems being experienced in the 21st century . ” The bill integrates the 1998 law ’s protections into US national security priorities , mandating that the ambassador at large for religious freedom – currently Rabbi David Saperstein , a veteran Reform movement leader — report directly to the secretary of state . It also adds new requirements for presidential reporting to Congress on religious freedom violations and training for diplomats in identifying violations of religious freedoms .
In both of their statements , Clinton and Obama took a vastly different approach than Trump , an effort to reassure born of shared liberalism and experiences with mass - casualty terrorism . They focused on the heroism of law enforcement , the emotional toll of the tragedy , and highlighted a tangle of other issues embodied by the killings — gun control , violence against the LGBT community and the broader societal issue of hate . In her statement , Clinton conflated “ terrorists or other violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventscriminals , ” infuriating even conservatives who detest their presumptive GOP nominee . “ We know enough to say that this was an act of terror and an act of hate , ” the president said a few hours earlier , in lockstep with the former rival he endorsed last week . “ The shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends , to dance and to sing and to live … This is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American , regardless of race , ethnicity , religion or sexual orientation , is an attack on all of us . ”
But he has repeatedly criticized the U.S. for “ regime change ” policies that have toppled authoritarians in other countries , including Iraq and Libya , that Clinton supported . In the latter case , Putin was furious when a 2011 U.S. and European military operation billed as humanitarian — and advocated by Clinton — evolved into a de facto campaign against dictator Muammar Qadhafi . Putin reportedly obsessed over Qadhafi 's violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsdeath in Kremlin meetings . The graphic video of the Libya ruler ’s bloodied body being dragged by a mob is often replayed on Russian television , along with Clinton ’s wisecrack about the executed strongman : “ We came , we saw , he died . ” Since leaving government , Clinton has had almost exclusively tough words for Putin , especially following Russia 's 2014 annexation of Crimea .
There is no reforming the rotten old system . Best to “ let the empire burn , ” and have the fires purify the new society . True believers will not be dissuaded from this worldview , even if history tells us that almost no violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsrevolution in a major country has ever brought about a better , freer society without intervening years ( and more like decades ) of dictatorship and slaughter . Even our own revolution left the little matter of slavery for another day and the bloodiest war in our history . “ Why visit Russia when you can go to Denmark ? ” the great jurist Louis Brandeis , one of the intellectual fathers of American liberalism , liked to say in the 1930s when friends told him they were off to see how the future would work .
As for his decision not to use the term " radical Islam"--for which Trump and other Republicans have been highly critical -- Mr . Obama said it could discourage Muslim allies if they think the U.S. is willing to lump them in with terror groups like ISIS . " The fact of the matter is that I 've never been politically , or particularly concerned with the phrase , " he said . " What I 've been more concerned about is how do we stop violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsextremists from killing us . " " The reason that I have n't used the particular phrase " radical Islam " on a regular basis is because in talking to Muslim allies , in talking to the Muslim American community here , that was being heard as if we were ascribing to crazy groups like I.S.I.L. or Al Qaeda , the mantle of Islam , " he added , using an alternative acronym for ISIS .
Describing the damage caused by a near - constant barrage of artillery from state security forces , Colvin recounted watching a toddler die after being wounded by shrapnel . Just Tuesday , Colvin spoke with CNN 's Anderson Cooper by phone about the child 's death , saying , " That baby probably will move more people to think , ' What is going on and why is no one stopping this murder in Homs that is happening every day ? ' " Colvin was accustomed to covering violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsuprisings , and she lent her insight as a first - hand witness to ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak 's crackdown on opposition protesters to CBS News in an interview almost exactly one year ago ( click for video ) . Colvin 's boss , media mogul Rupert Murdoch , described her as " one of the most outstanding foreign correspondents of her generation . " Colvin worked in the Balkans , where she went on patrol with the Kosovo Liberation Army as it engaged Serb military forces .
Between 1980 and 2008 , the foreign - born Hispanic population quadrupled — from about 4.2 million to 17.8 million . Democrats , the immigrant - friendly center - left party , were better positioned to take advantage of the growing Latino vote . The white Americans most hostile to Latino immigration , by contrast , switched to the GOP — driven in part by negative media coverage of immigration like stories about violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventscrimes committed by unauthorized immigrants . " When media coverage of immigration uses the Latino threat narrative , the likelihood of whites identifying with the Democratic Party decreases and the probability of favoring Republicans increase , " political scientists Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal write in their book White Backlash . " As immigration ’s impact on the United States has grown , whites have fled to the Republican Party in ever - larger numbers . "
Yazdi also clarified an Islamic Republic would make a distinction between Israel and its own Jewish residents - which had begun fleeing Iran in droves . " You can tell the American Jews not to worry about the Jewish future in Iran , " he said . Khomeini and Carter both wished to avoid a violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsclash between the military and the opposition . But their aims were fundamentally different . Carter wanted to preserve the military - which Sullivan once described as an unpredictable " wounded animal " - in order to use it as powerful leverage in the future .
He is promising to bring back American manufacturing , but his actual plan to do is a combination of no plan and a bad plan . In addition to trade , I ’d like to close with a few quick thought experiments . What would you think if President Obama said that the U.S. did n’t have a right to lecture Russia about civil rights given how violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsour country is ? I think many would complain that Obama was on a U.S. apology tour , and many in fact have said this already . What would you think if President Obama said of the problems facing the US “ I alone can fix it ” ?
Adopting Obama ’s ‘ violent extremism ’ rhetoric Olson used the language of the United Nations - sanctioned “ Strong Cities Network ” or SCN , which was announced by Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the U.N. last fall , when she called for building “ resilient communities ” in the fight against “ violent extremism . ” Lynch announced the SCN at the U.N. on Sept. 30 , 2015 , a program that attempts to globalize law enforcement agencies , connecting U.S. agencies with those overseas to combat violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsextremism in all its forms . By eliminating the focus on Islamic terrorism , however , many conservatives viewed the SCN initiative as an attempt to single out and silence conservatives under the guise of branding them “ right wing extremists . ” On July 8 , 2015 , just over two months before Lynch ’s U.N. announcement , Olson said her staff met with representatives from the refugee community , refugee support agencies , the Idaho Muslim community , Boise Police Department , FBI , the Intermountain Fair Housing Council , the ACLU and Stand Up America to discuss community responses to recent incidents in Idaho and across the country .
Americans should not be surprised that the former secretary of state would put America at risk , he said . Working with President Barack Obama , Clinton oversaw a foreign policy that treated allies as troublemakers and our enemies as victims with legitimate complaints about the United States . Chief among the enemies is the Islamic Republic of Iran , which Obama - Clinton empowered by lifting sanctions , thawing frozen assets , and ignoring Iran ’s support of violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsterrorism .
The slogan also stirs memories of the tense atmosphere in the newly independent Caucasus country when Georgia 's armed ethnic conflicts broke out during the early 1990s . In 2005 , then - President Mikheil Saakashvili declared that " Georgia for Georgians " was a " poisonous nationalistic slogan . " But since 2013 , when violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsthreats against gay activists in Tbilisi forced them to cancel a gay - pride parade in the Georgian capital , the slogan has appeared as spray - painted graffiti near Heroes Square in the city center alongside Nazi swastikas and racist slogans . Kiwi Cafe said on May 30 that it was continuing to work and was " ready to accept all customers regardless of their nationality , race , appearance , age , gender , sexual orientation , or religious views . " For now , it remains unclear whether the premeditated meat assault against the vegan cafe was merely a prank against an alternative culture hangout that turned violent .
He said the purchase of the tanks was a sign that the military is becoming more influential politically , but he did not see it as a bellicose gesture to Nicaragua ’s neighbors , including Costa Rica . University of Costa Rica political scientist Carlos Zamora agreed that the tanks were part of a domestic agenda . He said that between the large , regular demonstrations against the Nicaraguan Canal and former Contra fighters taking up weapons again in the northern part of Nicaragua , the government may be trying to bolster its ability to respond to a potentially violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsprotest . During a news conference Wednesday , President Luis Guillermo Solís said the tanks were “ unnecessary ” and that there was no justification for such an investment in Central America . “ More than a concern or a threat , it constitutes a feeling of sadness because these are people who still lack much in terms of human development , ” he said .
It appears , for example , that none of the anti - Muslim critics are aware that , with respect to the single greatest source of deadly intentional violence worldwide , Muslim societies are among the least violent in the world . This is not to deny the incontestable fact that campaigns of political violence in which Islamist radical groups — like ISIS — are one of the warring parties are now the world ’s deadliest — and by a huge margin . It appears that none of the anti - Muslim critics are aware that Muslim societies are among the least violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsin the world . Advertisement This reality might seem to lend credence to claims that Islam is indeed an inherently violent religion , but this is to confuse the ultra - violent ideology of a very small minority of Muslims at a particular point in time with the Islamic religion as it is understood and practiced today by the overwhelming majority of a billion - plus Muslims worldwide .
So it was with no little irony that his first international goal came against Holland in a Euro 2016 qualifier . Hide Caption 8 of 8 At the last UEFA European Championship , played in Poland in 2012 , Russia was penalized for the poor behavior of traveling supporters -- including violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsdisorder and the racial abuse of a black player from Czech Republic France 's Interior Ministry classified Saturday 's match as " at risk " and police sent in reinforcements , with about 1,000 police officers deployed to provide security , according to Marseille police spokesman Duroselle . The French Interior Ministry had previously announced international moves to keep hooligans out of the country during the tournament , which is also being held under the shadow of a potential terrorist threat .
It started calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq , or ISI for short . Shortly thereafter , Zarqawi ’s group met a fierce backlash . Sunni tribal leaders , who had always hated living under AQI 's harsh and often violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsrule , became convinced that the Shias were starting to win Iraq 's sectarian civil war . To avoid being on the losing end of a bloody war , they up took arms against AQI in a movement called the Awakening . Zarqawi was killed in 2006 by a US airstrike , and the US increased its troop presence in Iraq that year and the next .
“ What the Russians are doing is building narratives ; they are not building facts , ” he said . “ The underlying narrative is , ‘ Do n’t trust anyone . ’ ” … The central idea , he said , is that “ liberal democracy is corrupt , inefficient , chaotic and , ultimately , not democratic . ” Another message , largely unstated , is that European governments lack the competence to deal with the crises they face , particularly immigration and terrorism , and that their officials are all American puppets . … [ Russian media ] depict the West as grim , divided , brutal , decadent , overrun with violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventsimmigrants and unstable . … RT often seems obsessed with the United States , portraying life there as hellish . Life that ’s hell .
" You can do both of them at the same time by doing the things that work . " Maryland 's Uniform Crime Report data for 2014 found that the state 's violent crime rate stood at 441.3 victims per 100,000 inhabitants . This number is consistent with a long - term trend of declining violentlife.injure.injurycausedbyviolenteventscrime in Maryland during O'Malley 's time in office , from 2007 - 2015 . But Maryland 's drop in the number of violent crimes reported also coincided with a national drop in violent crime reported by the FBI in the same period . Meanwhile , O'Malley argued that his state - level policies helped reduce the rate of those imprisoned to a 20-year low .