Islamabad, Jul 31 (Prensa Latina) The new campaign of the US government to supposedly combat violent extremism is targeted at Muslims, and will only cause more rejection and alienation among the community youth, it was reported here today.
The project wrongly assumes that ideas are the principal drivers of radicalization, but the reality is quite different, says an opinion article in Pakistan Today newspaper.

In this regard, it considers that the main causes of the terrorism in the United States are social and personal problems.

Itâ�Ös not surprising that, despite its faulty premises and well-known weaknesses, this campaign has become all the rage in Washington, it stresses.

The newspaper recalled that during the Clinton administration were created subjective profiles of Arabs and Muslims, which were expanded under the rule of his successor, George W. Bush.

In 2010, the Obama administration issued an order, then revoked, that required all passengers boarding flights from Arab and Muslim countries to be subjected to special scrutiny, it highlights.

However, the newspaper considers that "the net result of all these practices, other than their enormous costs, has been a total failure. No terrorists were caught or identified, but the impact on the affected communities was devastating."

Arabs and Muslims were traumatized by the treatment meted out to them, because the government validated the suspicions of the broader population against this group, it criticized.

In this respect, it notes that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies maintain a constant monitoring of restaurants, social clubs, mosques and other facilities frequented by this religious group.

Now comes this latest fad to capture the fancy of American lawmakers: a clearly anti-Islamic strategy, the newspaper estimated.

Every year in that country there are more than 300 mass killings in which at least four people with firearms die, only a handful of these are carried out by Muslims, says the publication, which cites studies of several academic institutions, including the Southern Poverty Law Center and The Brennan Center.