Everything is pitched in terms of counter ideology, even though ideology is not the prime mover in terms of bringing people into terrorism.
That is the kind of senseless and purposeless bravado laced with inexplicable hate and intolerance which cannot be cured without an emotionally and intellectually resonating counter ideology.
One of the most important aspects of my book is demonstrating how the events themselves are less important than how those events were later framed by all sides to shape perception, ideologies, counter-ideologies and information operations.
However, May is committed to conducting a new "counter-ideology campaign at pace and scale" to combat Islamist extremism and the issue could be reopened again.
A full review of existing safeguards against such entryism is due to report this year before a "counter-ideology campaign at pace and scale" is to be launched.
"Normally a 'change' election is about a rejection of a certain ideology or the ultimate triumph of a countering ideology, like Reagan in '80 and Gingrich in '94," said John Weaver, a Republican strategist who worked for Mr. McCain until last year.
"Counter-ideology just doesn't feature at all in counter-terrorism in Northern Ireland – because there is a general belief that it isn't relevant and it doesn't work," he said.
The new strategy says the drive against entryism is a key component of the new "counter-ideology campaign at pace and scale" to combat Islamist and other forms of extremism in Britain.
"Where the issue is radicalisation, you have to look to fight long-term with arms and counter-ideology.
This paper argues that "shimmering", in the discourse of the Moscow Conceptual group, distinguishing them from their Noncoformist peers, represents a strategic counter-ideology of principled tergiversation designed to prevent the consolidation of the authoritative voice within the artwork.
