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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Law Enforcement ‘Never Guessed’ Gay Club Would Be Targeted by Jihad

Jun 14, 2016 4:12 pm By Robert Spencer

The politically correct willful ignorance that dominates our response to the jihad threat has lethal consequences. My latest in PJ Media:

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While Omar Mateen was casing other gay clubs to determine where he wanted to commit jihad mass murder, law enforcement officials had no idea a jihadi might ever consider such targets.

On Sunday, the East Orlando Post reported startling words from James Copenhaver, whom it described as a “veteran investigator and former Orlando law enforcement officer.” Said Copenhaver:

I have been in this business for 30 years, and we all in law enforcement have talked about one of the theme parks getting hit by these terrorist killers. Never in all my years of training, and being involved in several investigative units, to include the FBI Task Force, would we have ever guessed a LGBT club be a target of an terrorist attack.

Why would they never have guessed?

Because the FBI and other law enforcement agencies don’t study Islam, and this is a direct result of Muslim groups demanding the removal of such material. Those who are committed to protecting us are taught to downplay and deny the motivating ideology behind jihad terror attacks.

They have no idea that the following sayings exist or what their significance is:

If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful. (Qur’an 4:16)

That seems mild, but keep reading. The Qur’an depicts Allah raining down stones upon people for engaging in homosexual activity:

We also sent Lot. He said to his people: “Do you commit lewdness such as no people in creation committed before you? For you practice your lusts on men in preference to women: you are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds. … And we rained down on them a shower of brimstone: Then see what was the end of those who indulged in sin and crime!” (Qur’an 7:80)

Muhammad himself makes clear that Muslims should be the executors of the wrath of Allah by killing gays. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying:

If you find anyone doing as Lot’s people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done. (Abu Dawud 38:4447)

Stone the upper and the lower, stone them both. (Ibn Majah 3:20:2562)

James Copenhaver, in his 30 years in the business, never encountered that material nor was given any idea of how it might one day relate to a jihad mass murder attack.

While Copenhaver is right that this denial and willful ignorance has been going on for decades, one more recent and notorious manifestation of how it has become national policy came on October 19, 2011. That day, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates delivered a letter to John Brennan, who was then the assistant to the president on National Security for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism.

The letter was signed by the leaders of virtually all significant Islamic groups in the United States: 57 Muslim, Arab, and South Asian organizations, many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Islamic Relief USA, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).

The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam.” It emphasized that this was an issue of the utmost importance:

The seriousness of this issue cannot be overstated, and we request that the White House immediately create an interagency task force to address this problem, with a fair and transparent mechanism for input from the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities, including civil rights lawyers, religious leaders, and law enforcement experts.

The task force was needed because:

[W]hile recent news reports have highlighted the FBI’s use of biased experts and training materials, we have learned that this problem extends far beyond the FBI and has infected other government agencies, including the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Councils, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Army. Furthermore, by the FBI’s own admission, the use of bigoted and distorted materials in its trainings has not been an isolated occurrence. Since last year, reports have surfaced that the FBI, and other federal agencies, are using or supporting the use of biased trainers and materials in presentations to law enforcement officials.

Khera also complained about my work: that my books could be found in “the FBI’s library at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia”; that a reading list accompanying a slide presentation by the FBI’s Law Enforcement Communications Unit recommended my book The Truth About Muhammad; that in July 2010 I “presented a two-hour seminar on ‘the belief system of Islamic jihadists’ to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Tidewater, Virginia”; and that I also “presented a similar lecture to the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, which is co-hosted by the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office.”

These were supposed to be terrible materials because I was supposedly bigoted and hateful. However, many of the examples Khera adduced of “bigoted and distorted materials” involved statements that were simply accurate. The only distortion was Khera’s representation of them.

For instance, Khera stated:

A 2006 FBI intelligence report stating that individuals who convert to Islam are on the path to becoming “Homegrown Islamic Extremists,” if they exhibit any of the following behavior:

“Wearing traditional Muslim attire”

“Growing facial hair”

“Frequent attendance at a mosque or a prayer group”

“Travel to a Muslim country”

“Increased activity in a pro-Muslim social group or political cause”

Well, the FBI intelligence report Khera purported to be describing didn’t actually say that. Rather, it included these behaviors among a list of fourteen indicators that could “identify an individual going through the radicalization process.” Other indicators included:

“Travel without obvious source of funds”

“Suspicious purchases of bomb making paraphernalia or weapons”

“Large transfer of funds, from or to overseas”

“Formation of operational cells”

Khera had selectively quoted the list to give the impression that the FBI was teaching that devout observance of Islam led inevitably and in every case to “extremism.”

Despite the factual accuracy of the material about which they were complaining, the Muslim groups signing the letter demanded that the task force, among other actions:

“Purge all federal government training materials of biased materials.”

“Implement a mandatory re-training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers, and all federal, state and local law enforcement who have been subjected to biased training.”

They wished to ensure that all law enforcement officials ever learn about Islam and jihad would be what the signatories wanted them to learn — and Brennan was amenable to that. He took Khera’s complaints as his marching orders.

In a November 3, 2011, letter to Khera that — significantly — was written on White House stationery, Brennan made no attempt to defend counter-terror materials and procedures. He instead accepted Khera’s criticisms without a murmur of protest and assured her of his readiness to comply:

Please allow me to share with you the specific steps we are taking to ensure that federal officials and state, local and tribal partners receive accurate, evidence-based information in these crucial areas.

Brennan assured Khera that all her demands would be met:

Your letter requests that “the White House immediately create an interagency task force to address this problem,” and we agree that this is necessary.

He then detailed other specific actions being undertaken, including “collecting all training materials that contain cultural or religious content, including information related to Islam or Muslims.” In reality, this material wouldn’t just be “collected”; it would be purged of anything that Farhana Khera and others like her found offensive. Honest, accurate discussion of how Islamic jihadists use Islamic teachings to justify violence would no longer be allowed.

The alacrity with which Brennan complied was unfortunate on many levels. Numerous books and presentations that gave a perfectly accurate view of Islam and jihad were purged. Brennan was complying with demands from quarters that could hardly be considered authentically moderate….

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  1. Jack Diamond says

    Jun 14, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    “Never would we have guessed.” Let’s see, 2014 Seattle. Musab Mohammad Masmari sets a gay nightclub on fire attempting to kill 750 people inside. A few month later, Ali Muhammad Brown uses the grindr app to lure two gay men from a gay Seattle nightclub and shoots both of them in the head. Never would have guessed, never heard of it before….

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 14, 2016 at 8:24 pm

      And in Australia not so long ago a couple of Mohammedans attacked a gay guy outside a gay venue. They shot him *and* bashed him. Miraculously, the poor guy somehow survived; and the cops managed to track down the perps and arrested them.

  2. Steve Klein says

    Jun 14, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    Just heard a “whistle blower” Phillip Haney (author of See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad) on the Sean Hannity radio program. He worked for Homeland Security “connecting the dots” between financing jihad (Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.) and mosques like the one in San Bernadino that Syed Rizwan Farook / Tashfeen Malik attended and the mosque in Fort Pierce the shooter Omar Mateen attended. He said there is a connection between these mosques. The Obama administration ordered him and others to scrub much or all this critical data he and others accumulated in order to protect the civil rights of Muslim Americans.

    • Angemon says

      Jun 15, 2016 at 6:34 am

      That’s not protecting civil rights, that’s effectively creating a protected class.

    • Carolyne says

      Jun 15, 2016 at 10:54 am

      In other words, I guess Obama wants to protect the civil rights of Muslims to shoot, stab and blow up Americans. Listening to his rant yesterday, it was clear to see which side he is on. He was born a Muslim, raised as a Muslim and remains a Muslim.

      There are rumors that Obama is gay, too. Maybe he hates himself as it appears Mateen did.

  3. guide inside says

    Jun 14, 2016 at 5:21 pm

    The biased blind leading the blind. The ones they call biased, or, the ignored on purpose, are proven to be right again. How sad.

  4. Luke Andrews says

    Jun 14, 2016 at 5:43 pm

    Point taken, and of course you’re right. But let’s face it, none of the anti-Jihadi websites/blogs that I know of — yours included — ever suggested such a possibility.

    On another note, I was fascinated by this quote: “Stone the upper and the lower, stone them both. (Ibn Majah 3:20:2562)” What fascinated me is that it uses nearly synonymous terms to those used by gay men, namely tops and bottoms. Looks like someone was giving a lot of tho’t to gay sexual positions and roles!

  5. Manuele says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 1:19 am

    From where I am sitting, THE SHITHEAD IS GAY. THE MUSLIMS ARE MEN ARE WORST DISGUSTING LOTS. THINKING OF THEMSELVES AND THEIR PERVERTED SEXUAL BEHAVIOURS IS THE CAUSE OF THEIR HATE OF GAY MEN.

  6. Doug says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 8:49 am

    Just like the fast and furious gun scandal more progressive attempts to drum up support for disarming Americans and stealing away more of our rights for the sake of greater safety. Every time they fail they succeed.

  7. Carolyne says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 11:01 am

    Koran 4:16–“Allah is oft-returning.”
    How could a mythological being who never existed, return?
    Allah is oft-disgusting. Allah is the subject of Mohamed’s (May poop be upon him) imagination.

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