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Obama to law
enforcement: Stop linking Muslims to terrorism
by Jim Kouri, Law Enforcement Examiner
In yet another curtsy to the politically correct orthodoxy, President
Barack Obama’s White House plans to tinker with federal police
curriculums for counterterrorism training classes, according to a
Beltway public-interest organization.
The first bit of “revamping” is the removal of all material that
groups, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations , or CAIR,
find offensive or containing a “negative” image of Muslims.
It’s a government-wide call to end Islamophobia, according to a blog by
a Washington, DC-based watchdog group that investigates, exposes and
prosecutes government corruption.
A few months after the Obama White House ordered an investigation of
government counterterrorism training, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) has destroyed instructional material that
characterizes Muslims as prone to violence or terrorism, according to
the Judicial Watch blog.
So far 700 pages of documents from about 300 presentations given to
agents since the 2001 terrorist attacks have been purged, according to
a new report published this week. The White House order came after the
same publication reported in late November that the FBI, Department of
Justice (DOJ) and Pentagon taught employees that mainstream Muslims
embrace violence and compared the Islamic religion to the death star.
And the purge of training material regarding Islamic terrorism from law
enforcement training is only the beginning. Attorney General Eric
Holder told Congress that anti-Muslim instructional materials hurt the
country’s fight against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. As a result of
this mentality, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were asked to collect
counterterrorism training materials at all military academies and
academic centers such as the National Defense Intelligence College and
the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center.
“The goal, evidently, is to banish any material that could be viewed as
offensive to Muslims,” said the JW blog.
To fulfill this politically-correct mission, the FBI enlisted the Army
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point to purge material that
conflates terrorism with mainstream Islam, according to inside
information cited in the Judicial Watch report. The cleansing also
includes a White House review on any information related to “cultural
awareness” training for troops that were preparing to deploy to the
Middle East.
This appears to be part of a wider Muslim outreach effort on the part
of the Obama Administration and the president’s allies in Congress.
Last spring, for instance, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee quietly
scheduled a special hearing to better protect Muslim civil rights in
America. Organized by Illinois Senator Dick Durbin -- arguably one of
the most sympathetic lawmakers to Islamic causes -- the event came in
“response to the spike in anti-Muslim bigotry” and marked the first
ever congressional hearing on Muslim civil rights.
It was Durbin who on the floor of the Senate in 2004 called U.S.
soldiers Nazis, and detention centers such as Guantanamo Bay “gulags.”
He later apologized, but his constituents were happy to hear him
denigrating U.S. troops since his district has a very large Muslim
population, according to news reports.
According to the Examiner, other Muslim outreach efforts under Obama
included; Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano meeting to
discuss national security matters with a group of extremist Muslim
organizations including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the nation’s
space agency (NASA) being ordered to focus on Muslim diplomacy, and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signing a special order to allow the
reentry of two radical Islamic academics whose terrorist ties long
banned them from the U.S.
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