Disaster Number 1: The risk of behaving for the sake of political correctness as if terrorist threats from all corners are of equivalent magnitude, when they are not. Disaster Number 2: Refusing to engage ideology, reducing counter-terror efforts to fighting a tactic, and not its cause.
This move, though not the first of its kind under the Obama administration, will not make Americans safer. It will certainly not win the hearts and minds of jihadists or their sympathizers, who have their own reasons for hating us that are wholly independent of, say, what is in a training manual.
It will only leave authorities fighting jihadist terrorism with one hand tied ever more tightly behind their backs, and fighting a manufactured, but officially approved version of reality that is ever more removed from the inconvenient, uncomfortable, unofficial one. More on this story. "Obama administration pulls references to Islam from terror training materials, official says," from The Daily Caller, October 21:
Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday that the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.
“I recently directed all components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security,” Cole told a panel at the George Washington University law school.
The move comes after complaints from advocacy organizations including the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others identified as Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the 2004 Holy Land Foundation terror fundraising trial.
In a Wednesday Los Angeles Times op-ed, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) president Salam al-Marayati threatened the FBI with a total cutoff of cooperation between American Muslims and law enforcement if the agency failed to revise its law enforcement training materials.
Maintaining the training materials in their current state “will undermine the relationship between law enforcement and the Muslim American community,” al-Marayati wrote.
Multiple online sources detail MPAC’s close alignment with CAIR.
In his op-ed, Al-Marayati demanded that the Justice Department and the FBI “issue a clear and unequivocal apology to the Muslim American community” and “establish a thorough and transparent vetting process in selecting its trainers and materials.”
Specifically, al-Marayati called for a new “interagency task force” to review the training materials — a task force including representatives of the Islamist organizations the FBI is tasked with monitoring.
Some believe the Obama administration’s Justice Department will go even further.
“The Attorney General has announced what sounds like reprogramming if they find people who have actually received training” that Islamist groups find objectionable, Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney told The Daily Caller. Gaffney is co-author of a report, published by the Center, titled “Sharia: The Threat to America.”
Dwight C. Holton, the U.S. Attorney in Oregon said he had spoken with Holder directly about the issue of the terror training materials. Holton is the federal prosecutor who announced the arrest of so-called “Christmas tree bomber” Mohamed Osman Mohamud in 2010. That announcement made no mention of Mohamud’s Muslim faith.
“I want to be perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president, this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for,” Holton said Wednesday. “They will not be tolerated.”
Such training materials “pose a significant threat to national security, because they play into the false narrative propagated by terrorists that the United States is at war with Islam,” he added...
On the contrary, they address why Muslims have declared themselves, in their own words, to be at war with the United States in the name of Islam.
Dreadful, disgusting news...
So FBI agents, authorized to use deadly force each and every day, can't handle exposure to the truth about Islam? This reminds me of when Hoover claimed that there was no such thing as the Mafia.
“I want to be perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong,........" Holton said Wednesday.
Read Al Qur'an, you clown! The training materials contain what anyone can read in Al Qur'an. They are accurate.
One of the problems with law enforcement (I was a cop for 16yrs) is the political component. When law enforcement agencies are led by those who are playing a political game, the officer on the street (and the public) are the one's that suffer. The safety net is removed or damaged beyond usefulness. When most of the terrorism is committed by adherents of Islam, to remove the references to this vocal religion is pure foolishness. The cop on the street knows better but there is little they can do to stop it. If they don't play the game, they are reassigned or fired. The Obama administration is going to be responsible for the next 9/11 but that won't help those who lose their lives. The sooner Obama is removed the better. I know of nothing more dangerous to America than to reelect this president. I wonder who he will blame when these new policies blow up in his face?
"...the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities..."
Keep it up, Barry. Perhaps you haven't noticed that voters are laying the groundwork to "pull back" YOU from the office you gained so deceptively. When it is done, the political appointees you have scurrying about scrubbing training materials will go out the door, too, and then the scrubbed materials can be restored.
Too bad tax payers are having to pay for all this.
The Second World War was caused by a tiny minority of extremists of unknown nationality and political allegiance.. http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2011/03/church-of-adolf-hitler.html
Next time the Muselmaniacs demand the FBI knocks out all their front teeth in order to make themselves easier recognizable (or more appealing) to the soldiers of allah they will oblige all the same, I take it?
Similar good news from Britanistan. There is no problem with 'extremism' on British campuses.
'Professor Grant, who was in charge at UCL two years ago when the former president of UCL's Islamic Society, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, allegedly attempted to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane, told the Evening Standard that the issue had been "over-hyped" and that the law was "quite tight" on hate speech.
"Talk to our Muslim and Jewish students and they will tell you that it is a non-issue: it just doesn't exist," said Professor Grant, who chaired the recent Universities UK investigation into extremism and hate speakers.
Prof Grant's comments follow an academic year in which Abdel Bari Atwan accused Jewish students of "bombing Gaza" at an LSE event, and evidence was found of the promotion of a "hard-line Islamist ideology" at City University which led to the "harassment of staff, students and members of minority groups.
In a survey of British Jewish students released earlier this month, it emerged that 42 per cent had witnessed or been subjected to antisemitism in the past academic year. In May, the government released the Prevent review into counter-terrorism, led by Lord Carlile. The Liberal Democrat peer said Prof Grant was "talking out of his hat" if he could not see that there was a problem.
You can talk to Muslim and Jewish students and they'll tell you the truth
"He's in denial and he needs to re-examine his whole approach," said Lord Carlile. http://thejc.com/news/uk-news/56636/campus-extremism-made-ucl-head
"I want to be perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong..."
Remind me again -- how many years has Holton studied Islam so that he can make so authoritative and sweeping a statement?
I've lectured at Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and Joint Special Ops U. and had my material "investigated" at the former (although not yet, as far as I know, at the latter). I will be discussing this Obama "gag order" on the Janet Mefferd show (http://janetmefferd.com/) on Monday, Oct. 24 at 3:30 PM EST. We have GOT to stand up against this administration lunacy and denial.
Timothy R. Furnish, PhD (Islamic History)
But didn't the pastor in Florida get in trouble for doing that?
Clearly the best way to excise comments on Islam would be to eliminate it from legitimate references anywhere.
But, let's face it; we, the West and, particularly, the United States seems more than enthused to spit on itself.
Those, who don't know the pain some of us feel, never will.
Similar new policies have been handed down to our soldiers who are defending us and fighting against our sworn enemies. Straight form the top, the direct decree and the implied command to blind oneself form the evident, has descended down from our own barak hussain, commander and chief defender of islam. Anyone surprised here?
Let us hope that the majority of our law enforcement agents who by various tests prove exceptional intelligence will not be propagandized by any course erasing the simple to observe reality of the muslium danger and will readily overcome the politically motivated edicts bearing down on them from the top.
Wow! Thanks for your post. I'll be watching... and you have a lot of guts, Doctor. I commend you.
Please write more on this site. We need you.
From the article:
"In his op-ed, Al-Marayati demanded that the Justice Department and the FBI “issue a clear and unequivocal apology to the Muslim American community” and “establish a thorough and transparent vetting process in selecting its trainers and materials.”
Specifically, al-Marayati called for a new “interagency task force” to review the training materials — a task force including representatives of the Islamist organizations the FBI is tasked with monitoring.
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This is unmitigated, blatant Islamic Supremacism. It is also not-so-creeping Sharia. Screw al-Marayati and the traitors in charge of our Justice Department.
We have got to rid the White House of Obama. The writing is on the wall, now, folks.
It is "written" straight from the horses mouths, and it is being sanctioned by Barry and his Merry Band of Idiots.
It is outright legalization of treason and sedition.
valued tip off, thank's
Great idea. Just make Quran and, let's say, a collection of Buchari mandatory reading to all law enforcement officials. Of course pureley out of "respect" for Islam. Without any further comments. Then tell them "Islam is a religion of peace" (wink wink, nudge, nudge). What else could all Mohammedan groups ask for? Reading their "holy" books and repeating their mantra? Then watch all officers laughing their behinds off.
There's no doubt in my mind that a Dep US Atty in Oregon could have said this under GWB too. He of the sword dance and shoeless mosque visit. I guess we're just assuming that GWB was too stupid to digest the comments, whereas Obama could have written them.
"There's no doubt in my mind that a Dep US Atty in Oregon could have said this under GWB too."
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Yeah, except Bush's administration DIDN'T.
Sorry to say.. Bush cleand=up all rferences to Al-Sauds from 9/11 Interim Report. This, after puking this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ZoroJdVnA
After 9/11, Bush doubled Saudi student's visas. Take a close look at then POTUS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Bandar_bin_Sultan_with_G.W._Bush.jpg
Now ask yourself, "Who is the master?"
One doesn't have to portray "Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence." The facts, current and historical speak for themselves. Obviously, Holton, Holder, et. al. don't have a clue.
They are well advised to remember their oath's of office to support and defend the U.S. Constitution, which is man-made law and the antithesis of Islamic law, Islamic doctrines, Islamic values, beliefs and assumption, Islamic aspirations, and the Islamic mandate to make Islam superior to all other systems of belief (9:33).
If this nonsense continues, there will be a domestic backlash against this ludicrous, even treasonous, Orwellian political correctness, wishful thinking and, indeed, lunacy.
Yeah, yeah, I've seen all that stuff, and yeah, George the younger said some stupid things about Islam.
I was referring to your comment, though, itself.
You were hypothesizing, that's all, and a lawyer from Oregon didn't say what you said.
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Oh, and your "addendumm":
"Now ask yourself, "Who is the master?""
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I really hate it when people command me to do things. I know who my master is; I don't need to ask - it's FREE WILL!
You wrote:
"They are well advised to remember their oath's of office to support and defend the U.S. Constitution, which is man-made law and the antithesis of Islamic law, Islamic doctrines, Islamic values, beliefs and assumption, Islamic aspirations, and the Islamic mandate to make Islam superior to all other systems of belief (9:33)."
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Actually, the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence, (which of course, led to our forming of a nation and Constitution) states that our "law", at least in part, was NOT WRITTEN by man. It was transcribed by man and we were born with certain inalienable rights.
The difference between Mo's "transcription" and ours is that we came up with the words inspired by God (our Founders), then set them in stone. Mo moved the goal-posts as needed, unilaterally, and spread his "god-given" commands via the edge of a sword. He played God, while we were given the truth, as a gift from God.
The rest of your post I agree with.
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Wired Magazine has a story about this, and which links back to this JW story. It calls Robert an anti-Muslim author and one of the "ringleaders" protesting the 9-11 mosque. Check it out at http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/fbi-geomaps-muslims/ .
Being a propeller head myself, I used to read Wired magazine for its novel tech content. But it gradually dawned on me that Wired is written by and appeals to the same juvenile and illiterate leftist crowd as is in the OWS protests, so I stopped.