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Teachers union protests FBI ‘Radical Ideologies’ website because it could single out Muslims

Oct 19, 2016 12:12 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic jihadists are singling us out, but that doesn’t seem to matter. There have been almost 30,000 jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11 and no remotely comparable number of any other attacks by any other group, and they’re worried that Muslims will be “singled out” by a toothless program that doesn’t even name them in the first place.

James Comey

“Teachers Union Protests FBI ‘Radical Ideologies’ Website Because It Could Single Out Muslims,” by Amber Randall, Daily Caller, October 18, 2016:

A teacher’s union and associated groups are coming out against the FBI campaign to counter radical ideology, saying that it could lead to the singling out of Muslims.

Various groups penned a letter to FBI Director James Comey, declaring that the website made them feel “deeply troubled,” reports The Wall Street Journal.

The website, called “Don’t Be A Puppet,” was advertised for use in schools to teach younger people how to avoid being tempted by radical extremist thought. The website urges students to divulge any suspicious behavior they see to teachers and law enforcement.

The groups, which encompass the American Association of School Administrators and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, wrote that they believed the website would cause people to view Muslims and Middle Eastern students in a negative light.

The website, introduced last year, functions as a game to teach teenagers how to identify and avoid “violent extremists.”

“The site emphasizes that by blindly accepting radical ideologies, teens are essentially becoming the “puppets” of violent extremists who simply want them to carry out their destructive mission—which often includes targeting or killing innocent people,” the FBI website explains.

Those who disagree with the website took issue with what the website calls warning signs of potential extremist actions. Some of the warning signs include “talking about traveling to places that sound suspicious” and “using code words or unusual language.”

“We know we need to be hyper-vigilant. But there’s a difference between being hyper-vigilant and engaging in racial profiling. This program, while probably well intended, shouldn’t go forward,” the American Federation of Teachers union President Randi Weingarten declared….

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Filed Under: FBI, Featured, Leftist/Islamic Alliance, Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: American Association of School Administrators, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee


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  1. Linde Barrera says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 12:36 pm

    Randi Weingarten doesn’t know everything, even though she was a lawyer before becoming a teacher, then union president of UFT and now she is president of AFT. Let’s recall that unions helped create the middle class in the US, but sometimes union leaders lose sight of real values and goals, I think Randi needs to be taught about the doctrines of the Quran.

    • Allan says

      Oct 19, 2016 at 1:12 pm

      Labor unions “helped [to]create the middle class in the US”?? Bring your evidence*, unionist ideologue.

      * Koran 2:111, 24:21, 27:64, 28:75

      • Linde Barrera says

        Oct 19, 2016 at 1:33 pm

        To Allan- As per your 1:12 pm comment of Oct. 19, 2016, I am happy to inform you of how unions heled create the middle class. (I don’t know how your quotes of the Quran are related, so you can tell me that.) Here goes: 1. The boss used to say “If you don’t come in Sunday, don’t come in Monday.” Unions helped negotiate a shorter work week. 2. Unions helped end child labor. 3. Unions helped get health care coverage as a benefit in the workplace. 4. Unions helped fight for the Family and Medical Leave Act. Lastly, why have so many American corporations made such a huge effort to get rid of unions? Because of this concept: “More for them (the union workers) means less for us (the owners and managers)”. And to exemplify all that I wrote here, Verizon workers went on strike this year for at least a month. They had not had a raise in several years. The big boss of Verizon earns millions of dollars yearly but doesn’t want to give his workers a raise? I am not against anyone making millions of dollars for legal and lawful labor, but be fair and give your workers a living wage.

        • SAKOVKT says

          Oct 19, 2016 at 6:06 pm

          That it all true, but then there were also the American IWW “Wobblies” (Bolshevik conspired unions), the CNT, which was funded by Stalin to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

          Some unions went for the Syndicalist of both Spanish and Italian socialists as well as Jose Antonio’s JONS.

          Unions always promise to represent the worker but their politics have been a real mixed bag.

        • Jake says

          Oct 19, 2016 at 10:26 pm

          The teachers union in the USA is involved in the failed educational policies for the inner cities. Rather than helping creat a middle class, their actions have been complicit in denying a chance for the middle class to millions of kids from low income families. Their greedy self focus has destroyed the formerly sterling reputation of American public school teachers everywhere. They are a national disgrace.

  2. Beagle says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    Even bumbling euphemistic efforts to prevent kids from becoming jihadists is too much for our politically correct authoritarian thought police. It always amazes me how willing people are to let mass murders take place so no Muslims’ feelings get hurt.

    This PC campaign claiming counter extremism materials, however ambiguous, are anti-Muslim is itself a call to terrorism. One main motivator for jihadists is the false claim that Islam is everywhere under siege and the Muslims have a fard ayn obligation to defend it. This was the basis for Bin Laden’s 1998 fatwa and many subsequent religious rulings advocating jihad mass murder of civilians. Anything from perceived insults to refusing to implement sharia law can be viewed as an ‘attack’ on the inherently supremacist and imperialistic religion of Islam.

  3. JAR says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 1:15 pm

    If it actually accomplishes what it claims, I’d say that various high-ranking politicos could benefit from this anti-radicalizing website-game.
    I hope that participating students don’t get into trouble if they “see something and say something.”
    As usual, Robert’s opening two sentences provide the requisite slicing and dicing.

  4. Angemon says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 1:20 pm

    Public service unions know who signs their pay-checks – they need to know when to huff, puff and stomp their feet and when to row, row, tow the boat and toe the line.

    We know we need to be hyper-vigilant. But there’s a difference between being hyper-vigilant and engaging in racial profiling.

    Who gets to decide on which is which? Why is profiling members of a religion “racial profiling”? And if it works, why is it bad?

  5. Allan says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    I have encountered a helpful new translation of the Koran by one Sam Gerrans, a “Quranite”. His work, which can be downloaded for free, runs to more than 2,000 pages with Arabic and English in parallel columns, 9,000 footnotes, and accompanying articles. He joins Spencer in doubting that Muhammad ever lived in or visited Makkah, and he harshly condemns “the Traditionalist Muslim” as a cultist.

    https://www.quranite.com

    The Quranite position concerning the religion often presented as Islam in a nutshell:

    * The religion typically thought of as Islam contradicts the book it claims as its foundational scripture throughout
    * The religion typically thought of as Islam has to assume its conclusions vis-à-vis the Qur’an; one has to be conditioned to expect its outcomes in the Qur’an, they are not found there naturally
    * One has to twist the Qur’an to make it seem to say what Traditionalist Islam requires – something which consistent analysis of Qur’anic terms and usage readily exposes
    * What the Traditionalist Muslim calls sharia law has been imported from an entirely separate literature called the hadith
    * Traditionalist Islam’s claims for what it calls sharia law are also not native to the Qur’an; sharia law as popularly intoned is an entirely separate ideology
    * Muslims typically miss the point of the Qur’an because they have a pre-existing allegiance to an ideology learned elsewhere – like most people, they largely follow what they were born into and fail to do due diligence on their doctrine
    * Islam – as typically promoted – is a means of mind control no different to any other cult, religious or secular

    • Norell says

      Oct 19, 2016 at 6:28 pm

      Islam is not a religion. It is a political Ideology masquerading as a religion. The problem with Islam is that if you question or disagree, your dead and any member of your family or friends will do you in. They live in fear of Islam. I don’t think their are many that are educated enough to question Islam. They don’t know how to inter act with other people, no empathy, and are the same as a psychopath.

  6. DFD says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    Hi All,

    From Germany, bit off topic but should raise some smiles 🙂 🙂

    Pegida birthday celebration, Leipzig or Dresden, I somehow destroyed the link, so I’ll descibe it.

    One of the participants held up a sign which was layed out like those you find in corner-shops, news-agents etc. I.e., the ones used to sell, buy or swap things. It read:

    “Wanted: One Orban. Offer: One Merkel, top up payment considered.
    Call BRD, ask fo anyone”

    (BRD = Bundes Republik Deustchland) Damn that I lost that…

  7. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    “the website would cause people to view Muslims ….. in a negative light.”
    No dear. Not the website. Islam.
    It is Islam that does a very good job of that already.

  8. SAKOVKT says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    Every collective singles itself out with a name.

    How radical it is, depends upon circumstance.

    Conflating the radical with the violent has been a long standing misconception.

    (The Quakers are actually quite radical in their views.)

    But there is no misconception, at all, in the idea of Islamic Violence.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Oct 20, 2016 at 9:00 am

      “Violence is the heart of Islam”
      Ayatollah Yazdi.

  9. abad says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 6:59 pm

    Teacher unions are only concerned with spreading the liberal, one-world Muslim agenda.

  10. SK says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 7:30 pm

    I’m halfway through the game, and they have a really good spread of types of groups. They’ve got “right-wing extremists”, they’ve got anarchist and environmental extremists, and they even mention Kahane Chai. I’m on to the video section, and they rarely mention Islam. In fact, they show a Muslim lady who had a threatening letter at work and mention a time white supremacists punched some ME people.

  11. John says

    Oct 20, 2016 at 4:13 am

    Two words tell me EVERYTHING I need to know about this story:

    “Randi Weingarten.”

    ‘Nuff said.

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