The Obama administration’s fear of offending Muslims will hurt the war against terrorism, Jewish Senator Joe Lieberman has said in a speech blasting Obama’s new counter-terrorism strategy

Lieberman said that Obama’s strategy was ultimately a big disappointment and while it successfully identified the core of the domestic radicalization problem, it did not establish a clear plan of attack to deal with the growing issue. The four-term senator and one-time presidential candidate said that one of the key problems with the Obama administration’s strategy was that it continues to call terrorism that aims to harm the United States violent extremism instead of violent Islamist extremism. Lieberman, who as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has held numerous hearings on the issue of Islamic extremism, said that Obama needs to stop being afraid of offending Muslims with his rhetoric.