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Politically influential Muslim activists are pushing to reduce the FBI's role in countering Islamic terrorism and are seeking greater federal reliance on hard-line orthodox Imams.
The White House's "Countering Violent Extremism" program "did not produce the results a lot of us were hopeful … [and] kind of collapsed towards the end of last year," complained Mohamed Elibiary, a Texas-based advocate who was appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
"I don't know where it is today … [but] it presents us with the opportunity to look at the question of [whether] it is right to house it within the FBI," he said at an May 28 event in D.C. staged by the Muslim Public Affairs Council.