On January 10, 2007, the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) convened an expert level workshop designed to help U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) devise a strategy to counter the arguments of the radical Islamists and to undermine their appeal to susceptible Muslim audiences around the world. This workshop, which was designed for CENTCOM with the support of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), followed an earlier session that focused more specifically on the phenomenon of suicide terrorism, and it will be succeeded by an upcoming workshop focused exclusively on the elements of a national strategy to defeat radical Islamist threats. Held at the unclassified level to facilitate participation from the academic and think tank communities, discussion at this meeting aired a wide range of views, with participants agreed that an uppermost U.S. priority was the development of a comprehensive, Interagency strategy to counter and devalue radical extremist ideologies that are advanced in the name of Islam. The following represents a synopsis of that discussion, organized around the workshop’s principal themes.