Crime Time
Episode 182
Assessing President Obama’s Policy Not to Connect Islam to Terrorism
President Obama has come under criticism for refusing to refer to Islam in conjunction with terrorism. Is Obama failing to handle ISIS assertively enough? We discuss the Muslim response to ISIS, the terrorist response to being called ‘Daesh,’ and if the current plan of attack by the President will be enough to triumph against Islamic extremists in this Crime Time interview with Tim Clemente.
Episode Breakdown
00:00 Welcoming Tim Clemente to Crime Time.
00:30 Obama challenged the notion that terrorist organizations are connected to Islam.
01:26 We are not at war with Islam, but an extreme minority.
03:32 How should we be referring to terrorist organization?
05:18 Poverty is not a reason for Islamic extremism.
06:15 Is President Obama lacking a fundamental understanding of the terrorist recruitment process?
08:50 How ISIS is able to gain recruits through social media, targeting especially young people.
12:40 Do Imam’s need to be more vocal about their disapproval of ISIS?
16:14 Is it good for the media to use derogatory terms to refer to ISIS?
17:32 Tim Clemente thinks we should have troops on the ground.
18:11 Thank you and goodbye.
Guest Bio
As an FBI Special Agent Tim Clemente worked as a counter-terrorism and tactical operations expert around the world, specializing in Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa.
An expert interviewer/interrogator, he is extremely adept at “flipping” people, effortlessly turning
defendants, detainees, and targets into cooperators. Tim spent five years running a highly classified (above Top Secret), covert joint operation with the DOE NEST, directly protecting the United States from the threat of rogue nuclear and WMD attack. In his undercover persona as a drug smuggler, Tim worked on long-term narcotics and organized crime investigations in the US, Colombia, and Venezuela, targeting and taking down members of the notorious Cali Cartel.
Prior to the FBI Tim was a Police Officer with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
After his career with the FBI Tim worked as an embedded, uniformed Counter Improvised Explosive Device Investigator with the US Army 3rd Corps in Iraq in 2007, and with the 101st Airborne Division at Ft Campbell, Kentucky in 2008.
He is the author of Courage – A Pictorial Essay on Life in Iraq Today (Feb 2008), and the inventor of the Height Adjustable Rescue Assault System (HARAS), currently in use by leading counter-terrorism agencies on five continents.
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