The police in Plainfield, Illinois, are being taught several misconceptions about Islam. Hamas-linked CAIR’s Sabeel Ahmed led presentations alongside Muhammad and Zulfie Khan of the Al-Aqsa Community Center.
“Contrary to popular belief, he [Ahmed] said, true Islam does not suppress women. He explained that in some cultures, women are forced into marriage. In Islam, there is no forcing males or females into marriage and women are empowered.”
Hm, that seems a bit odd, considering he also suggests for police to always have a female officer when investigating cases involving Muslims. So much for equality!
If this is what US police are learning, how will our law enforcement help victims of violence, not to mention evaluate potential links to terrorism? Interestingly enough, on the webpage for the article, the video insert of of a police briefing in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where a knife-wielding jihadist targeted infidels. Mixed messages – sad!
“Plainfield police learn about Islam, Muslims through community partnership,” by Mike Mallory, The Herald News, September 27, 2016:
PLAINFIELD – A partnership was recently reached between the Plainfield Police Department and Al Aqsa Community Center to strengthen the relationships between law enforcement, Muslims and the local communities in which they live.
Plainfield Police Chief John Konopek and Cmdr. Mike Novak recently visited the Al Aqsa Community Center, 17940 S. Bronk Road in Plainfield, for a meet and greet, Imam Charles Muhammad said.
On Tuesday, Muhammad and Zulfie Khan, the center’s secretary general, presented alongside Sabeel Ahmed to Plainfield police at the Plainfield Law Enforcement Center. Ahmed is director of GainPeace, a nonprofit with a main goal of educating the public about Islam and clarifying many misconceptions they may hold.
Ahmed said that before he came to America 20-plus years ago, he thought everyone was violent in the U.S. because of what he had seen in movies.
Once he started socializing, he learned Americans seek peace and aspire for better communities just such as he does. He said he realized he should not judge based on perceptions he was being fed through the media or other sources.
Clarifying misconceptions is what the police-community center partnership hopes to do in the Plainfield area. Muhammad said the department and Al Aqsa want to continue fostering the relationship, as more than 600 Muslim families live within a 10-mile radius of the community center.
In his presentation, Ahmed touched on several common misconceptions about Islam and Muslims.
Contrary to popular belief, he said, true Islam does not suppress women. He explained that in some cultures, women are forced into marriage. In Islam, there is no forcing males or females into marriage and women are empowered.
Ahmed then pointed to a picture on his slideshow with Muslim women of different skin tones from different countries who won medals in the 2016 Olympic games.
He said that despite what is in the news, Muslims in America are statistically the least threat to society. Muslims are also active in civic engagement. He said Islam teaches them to help the poor, needy and homeless.
Officers in attendance asked questions about the differences between certain articles of clothing and how to best police in specific situations. One officer asked about the best way to approach a situation where a Muslim woman is a victim of violence.
Muhammad advised the officers that if there does not appear to be severe injuries, then to respect the hijab – a headscarf worn by Muslim women in the presence of men outside their immediate family. But if an officer is certain there are head injuries, they must do what is necessary to treat the woman, he said. Ahmed recommended having a female officer present if at all possible in such a situation.

Rob says
imagine scheduling first responder squad cars with that requirement.
‘Sorry dispatch we can’t go that call. It’s Larry and Bert here’
‘Should we swing by Samantha’s house and pick her up. Only take another 20 mins’
jihad3tracker says
PLEASE TAKE A FEW MINUTES THIS WEEKEND TO CONTACT MEMBERS OF THE PLAINFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT.
ALSO FORWARD COPIES OF WHATEVER YOU WRITE TO PLAINFIELD’S MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.
I am deliberately NOT specifying anyone on that police staff, because CAIR tracks every post here on JW, and it would send an “Islamophobia alert” email to police staff mentioned here.
Prepare in advance of actually composing the message — by choosing excellent web resources for truth, such as these “DOT COM” EXPERTS: Citizenwarrior, Inquiryintoislam, Thereligionofpeace, Politicalislam, Barenakedislam.
BE SURE TO INCLUDE JIHADWATCH (DOT) ORG as right up front in the list. Consider as well a short biography of your own progress from being clueless on the reality of Islam’s violence and subjugation.
DAVID WOOD’S TERRIFIC VIDEOS ARE GREAT: “The Jihad Triangle” / “What Is Taqiyya?” / “Three Stages Of Jihad” and several others with titles I cannot recall at this moment.
Allan says
Good point about CAIR, assuming for a moment that you’re correct. The assumption is a safe one, however, and it’s probable that they aren’t alone. (There are the SPLC and sundry Islamoloony organizations, both domestic and foreign.)
So, how might their self-righteous monitoring be used to lay a trap in which they are snared when they rush forth to tattle?
Michael Johnson says
This is so embarrassing my home state of Illinois is bowing to the pressure of Islam
Rob says
You’re not alone. In Germany, the Lutheran Church invites Imams to pray in from of their congregants.
These church leaders don’t understand Taqiyya: When they hear the word “pray”, they think the Imam means “pray”.
The Imam actually means “PREY”
kilfincelt says
Illinois is my home state as well and I happen to be Lutheran so I am sick to death of the Muslim narrative which is full of lies about Islam and that it is religion of peace when it hasn’t been for 1400 years.
I once wrote to one of the Lutheran synods that has its headquarters in the Chicagoland area because their website had a link (and I think still has) to a website that contained videos that tried to explain Islam. Unfortunately, every video was full of lies and half truths. I tried to explain this to the synod officials but never received a return response.
After so many years of violence against their own, Christians, Jews, and people of other religions, one would think that people would start to question the Islamic narrative or maybe they just think that insanity among the followers of Islam is a quite common. Maybe it is because what they believe is total nonsense.
Westman says
I had no idea that women were so equal in the most Islamic nation on the planet, the keeper of Islam’s most holy site, Saudia Arabia. See their well-treated heads roll, see the equalty whipping by the “religious police”, see them ride happily in the back seat, see their inheritances stolen, and watch their testimony ignored.
There is a happy note: Congress just overrode Obama’s veto of the bill allowing victims of 9/11 to sue Saudi Arabia for damages. Allah Sueum! فليكن دعوى قضائية ضد الله والمملكة العربية السعودية Let the suits begin.
Raptor says
Sueum, nice ! When I think of analyzing Islam in western societies – I tend to conclude it’s like an Hiv Virus……it invades a host cell – takes over it’s intracellular production and starts pumping out more and of the virus inside the cell….then the cell dies, ruptures and more retro virus is spread…..infecting more and more cells…… Truly concerning. Anti viral medications for this (infection) needed world-wide…..
Caliph says
Islam is “the zombie religion” as muslims blindly follow in the footsteps of Mohammed, the first “zombie” prophet.
Once you get “bitten” you are one for ever – you try to leave and the hoard kills you.
Muslims/Zombies endlessly try to get to non-zombies to “convert” them and are relentless in that single-minded pursuit. Zombies don’t care if they die ( since they are already dead ) in the pursuit of proselytizing humans.
Zombies have no intelligence, no individuality, neither do Muslims – it’s mo’s way or death.
Alessandro says
HAHAHAHA, you had a scientific explanation and definition !!!! I love it and it is so true!!!! Even maggots have purpose in this world and they do not.
Pere LaChaise says
Isn’t this mosque in Plainfield the one you can see from the 55 freeway ? I was told that two jihadis came out of it. But I guess that’s neither here nor there as far as IL cops are concerned.
Sheykh Yer Weeni says
Sheykh Yer Weeni, the Infidel Imam, does not know if CAIR (an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terrorism funding trial) tracks every Jihad Watch comment. He does know that CAIR is a front for several interesting organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood. He also knows that the National Spokesman for CAIR, Mr. Ibrahim Hooper, said, “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the US to be Islamic at some time in the future”. In other words, he does want the US to be under sharia law. The Infidel Imam also knows that the Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX executive director of CAIR, Mustafa Carroll, said, “If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land.” Now Muslims are above the Constitution! Can’t you keep your mask on, CAIR? Sheykh Yer Weeni, the Infidel Imam, is watching and planning a surprise.
More Ham Ed says
Illinois: The Anatomy Of A Failed Liberal State
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemoore/2015/09/17/anatomy-of-a-failed-liberal-state
Guy Jones says
Nauseating taqiyya and dhimmitude on display. All committed under the misguided rubric of “community relations.”
Keith says
Have none of these Police Officers taken anytime in the past to learn anything about Islam. Were there any questions about Muhammads life and the hadith and the verses of violence that are so plentiful in the koran?
Or were they banned from asking any difficutl questions?
dumbledoresarmy says
Here’s hoping that some of those cops have their copper spidey-senses tuned enough that the body language and tone of voice of the mohammedan dawa-artists and spin-doctors and snake-oil salesmen that they had to listen to during this little dawa exercise were setting off all kinds of alarms. Let’s hope that the whole time some of them were feeling their hackles rising and an itch between the shoulderblades.
Here’s hoping that some of those cops will go home and pick up the Quran… and come upon surah 4.34, with its command to thrash ‘rebellious’ wives. Here’s hoping that some of them may even google their way in here, or into other websites, such as the Centre for the Study of Political Islam. Here’s hoping that some of them have encountered ACT for America’s Thin Blue Line project and were *already* forewarned, and were sitting there keeping poker faces whilst mentally ticking off every variety of Islamic BS that they were being fed (kind of like playing ‘buzzword bingo’).
And here’s hoping that some of those cops were basically treating the whole thing as a sort of advance recce… sussing out the interior of the enemy base, getting an idea of the layout, with a view to any future police action they might have to undertake on those same premises. I hope that some of the cops took the opportunity to mosey off to the loos and ‘get lost’ en route accidentally on purpose, so as to get a good mental map of the building layout.
billybob says
Ahmed said that before he came to America 20-plus years ago, he thought everyone was violent in the U.S. because of what he had seen in movies.
Once he started socializing, he learned Americans seek peace and aspire for better communities just such as he does. He said he realized he should not judge based on perceptions he was being fed through the media or other sources.
So the obvious intended message is that we should not judge Muslims based on perceptions we are being fed through the media or other sources – such as right here on JihadWatch. Same as if we read in the paper the crimes of some notorious criminals, we should not judge these criminals by what we read. They may in fact be really nice people.
Don Foss says
Taqiyya. Period.
Mirren10 says
”Contrary to popular belief, he said, true Islam does not suppress women. He explained that in some cultures, women are forced into marriage. In Islam, there is no forcing males or females into marriage and women are empowered.
Ahmed then pointed to a picture on his slideshow with Muslim women of different skin tones from different countries who won medals in the 2016 Olympic games.”
And what, exactly, does that have to do with koranic texts that invoke the suppression of women ? These mohammedan female athletes are fortunate they come from homes where koranic injunctions are clearly not strictly enforced.
That does *not* mean the koranic injunctions are not there, and are not strictly enforced by many mohammedans, and many mohammedan countries. And the fact that they *are* there, means that any time a member of one these athlete’s families decides to become more pious, a more strict muslim, decides it is now haram for his sister, cousin, wife to engage in athletic activities, the koranic injunctions are there, ready to back him up, and justify murder if she refuses to bow to what the koran says is haram.
Allan says
It appears that the Plainfield PD is developing a new motto:
The motto is new to that PD, but as alert people know, it’s just a variation on old themes in American police work. Hence, the only news here is that the old master, the bipartisan mafia, is being replaced with a new master.
bc says
Contrary to popular belief, he said, true Islam does not suppress women. He explained that in some cultures, women are forced into marriage. In Islam, there is no forcing males or females into marriage and women are empowered.
This is as blatant a lie as the Nazis claim that the Jews had started both world wars and were seeking to exterminate the German ‘race’
Angemon says
That’s the difference, isn’t it? He interacted with Americans and realized that, generally speaking, they were not violent. Americans, on the other hand, are getting more and more muslim “migrants”. They’re getting to interact with muslims on a more regular basis and they’re thinking, more and more, that islam and muslims are violent and incompatible with American values.
Oh, he’s playing them like a fiddle!
Citation needed.
Tawriya at its finest. “Help the poor, needy and homeless” – just as long as they are muslims.
Defen0derofIsliam says
You are being than unjustified fear of Islam.There are more nonmoslim criminal. In america. You just cannot face the fact that police are being train by moslim about Islam. In than medical it there are only male police or fireman they can remove the hijab to give medical treatment.
Angemon says
Defen0derofIsliam posted:
“You are being than unjustified fear of Islam.”
Having a fact-based view on what islam teaches is not “being than unjustified fear”.
“There are more nonmoslim criminal. In america.”
Well, DUH! There are more muslim criminals than non-muslim criminals in, for example, Saudi Arabia. That’s what one expects seeing the % of muslims in the American population.
“You just cannot face the fact that police are being train by moslim about Islam.”
You mean, lied about islam.
“In than medical it there are only male police or fireman they can remove the hijab to give medical treatment.”
Ah, so you’re privy to the training manuals and syllabus? What do they say regarding the treatment of non-muslims under islamic law?
underbed cat says
Muslim outreach has a purpose, to invite a policing force and appear tolerant and peaceful. It may be in the interest of the Sheriff to do a little research before entering to understand the words they will use and the meanings that may need a preview. If you start to feel comfortable that is a sign the outreach is working… you have been charmed, just in time, until the next event.
bobm says
now WHO wouldn.t trust a face like that
Crusades Were Right! says
“Ahmed said that before he came to America 20-plus years ago, he thought everyone was violent in the U.S. because of what he had seen in movies.
Once he started socializing, he learned Americans seek peace and aspire for better communities just such as he does.”
So glad the Yanks managed to live up to the high standards of Mohammedanism. (LOL!!!)
Paul Clark says
There are many chiefs of police and government leaders that will prostitute themselves for a pay check. It seems that the leaders of Plainfield will sell out their own country and their own community These leaders that are ignorant about Islam. Now they are dumbing down their own police.
Is there anyone in this country that can go behind them and expose these Islamic lies. Wait a minute! Maybe the Christians! There are millions of them. They have millions in resources: financial , teachers, pastors, theologians, etc. Christians where have you gone? Have you fled the cross again? Your Lord has told you to “pick up the cross and follow Him.” Where are you? I only see a few Martyrs sacrificing everything for Jesus, but you will not even get out of your pews. Shame on you and shame on Plainfield.