Both of their testimonies raise alarm over, as Ali puts it, Muslim “subversion from within.”

@ CAIR @ mpac_national @ IIITfriends & @ ISNAHQ Ali’s testimony speaks glowingly of efforts in Europe to shut down mosques, and calls on Congress to give President Trump the power to “identify and dismantle” Islamist groups in the U.S. In testimony today, Ayann Hirsi Ali calls‘Islamists,’ compares them to Nazis & fascists # HSGAC

The strategy used by the United States to combat violent Islamic extremism has “failed” because it has solely focused on acts of violence while ignoring the ideology that drives jihadists and Islamists, argued Ali.

She told lawmakers, “The dominant strategy from 9/11 through the present, focusing only on Islamist violence, has failed. In focusing only on acts of violence, we have ignored the ideology that justifies, promotes, celebrates, and encourages violence, and the methods of dawa used to spread that ideology.”

In order to reverse its failure, the United States has to fight “a war of ideas against political Islam (or “Islamism”) as an ideology and against those who spread that ideology,” advised Ali.