A beaming White House summit on 'extremism'

A key tactic of President Obama’s campaign against Islamic State has been to reframe how the world views the group. He speaks mainly of IS in terms of what it is not (“un-Islamic”) or simply by what it does (“violent extremism” and oppression). This painting of IS as a void of humanity rather than a voice of Islam lies at the heart of this week’s White House summit on countering “violent extremism.” Officials from some 60 nations have gathered to devise new ways of preventing IS