ACLU; Don't target Muslims, they are not the problem, the problem is Islamophobia

It is bigoted to think Muslims are in any way responsible for attacks across the globe, you Islamophobe! The usual excuses are given for the hatered against us, and the usual solutions are posited. Claiming that it is FBI training materials done by "bigots" that are the problem, the solution is to rid our military of the capability to use drone aircraft against jihadists.

I know, WTF?

From KSL.com October 30 by Steve Fidel

ACLU deputy sees national security extremes becoming entrenched

WEST VALLEY CITY —The deputy legal director for the ACLU believes post-9/11 security policies specifically target Muslims, and that the intelligence community has taken training cues from bigots, not experts.

And unlike the era where Japanese Americans were detained in camps during World War II, he sees detainment, surveillance and other infringement policies staying in the extreme in the decade following 9/11 becoming "the new normal."

"While President Obama uses the rhetoric of human rights, his administration is continuing to become more entrenched," said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director for the ACLU and director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, which houses the agency's work on national security; human rights; and speech, privacy and technology.

Jaffer spoke Saturday night at the Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake's Khadeeja Islamic Center.

He urged Muslims to vote and participate in public events, including demonstrations, but said they should not band together as Muslim or Arabic-sponsored groups to oppose government or societal injustices. "Choose something less selfish" rather than representing a Muslim bloc. "You have to think of other people's rights" as well, he said.

Good luck with that, Jaffer.

Jaffer credited the Obama administration for releasing memos that discussed and sanctioned torture among detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp after 9/11, but suggested President Obama spent considerable political capital in doing that, setting him at odds with the CIA specifically and the intelligence community as a whole.

He suggested presidents' effect on human rights issues, in the arena of national security, can be limited by the fact a successful president may be in office eight years, but the mindset moves on a different track within the CIA and FBI, where careers can last 30 years.

He said Muslims have balked at careers in the United States' intelligence community because training materials have labeled Islam as incompatible with democracy. He believes FBI training materials for at least the past decade have drawn on the expertise of bigots, not individuals with expertise in Middle East culture. "And I suspect the CIA's training materials are worse."

Islam is incompatible with democracy, it is obvious when reading the Qur'an, hadiths or sunna. Muslims individually may not practice a pure form of Islam, that in no way removes the hatred and vitriol that Muslim clerics uphold as right when defining Islam.

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