There is a new acronym in official Washington: CVE. It stands for “countering violent extremism.” The latter two words comprise the term that President Obama, and his spokespeople in the executive branch, insist on employing in place of Islamist terrorism, which accurately describes the plague that has been inflicted on Christians, Jews, Shia Muslims, and “insufficiently religious” Sunnis worldwide. Perhaps the administration feels that using the abbreviation will lead people away from a description that the president sees as pejorative. The term has already been picked up by European leaders, those brave souls who would prefer to avert their eyes …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
