Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for the World Tribune on why young Muslims are joining ISIS:

Last week’s highly publicized White House summit on countering violent extremism provoked greatest criticism on two points.

First, President Barack Obama was roundly attacked for not using any variant of the words Islam or Muslim in describing the extremist threats. The White House responded that the president did not wish to offend the Muslim community with what could be misperceived as incendiary language and emphasized that America was not waging a “war on Islam.”

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