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Saturday, February 18, 2012

FBI mulls partnering with Muslim Brotherhood connected groups for their input on training manuals

Let's understand this correctly; the FBI, in order to have the best training materials on Islam, asks those who are determined to make Islam the religion of the world to write the material agents will be trained with.  Of the five in this group, two are most worrying.  The Islamic Society of North America (ICNA) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) are Muslim Brotherhood front groups, and they operate under the grand umbrella of the MB which says, " The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions..."  You can read more about the ISNA here, and MPAC here 


We are doomed if an agency charged with the protection of US citizens decides to let those enemies dictate how, what and when we learn.  The FBI is effectively abdicating their responsibility to understand the threat and act accordingly.  Imagine if, during WWII we decided to let the Nazis decide what we learned about them.   Amazing stupidity at work here, I don't know if we will recover from this stunning act of treason.


This is an update on the original article found here.


From The Washington Post Feb 16 by Omar Sacirbey


FBI, Muslims report progress over training materials

FBI officials say they are willing to consider a proposal from a coalition of Muslim and interfaith groups to establish a committee of experts to review materials used in FBI anti-terrorism training.
The coalition raised the idea during a Feb 8 meeting with FBI Director Robert Mueller, who met with the groups to discuss pamphlets, videos and other anti-terrorism training materials that critics say are either Islamophobic or factually incorrect.
“We’re open to the idea, but they need to submit a proposal first,” said Christopher Allen, an FBI spokesman who was in the meeting.
Groups at the meeting included the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Interfaith Alliance, and the Shoulder-to-Shoulder campaign.
The FBI is satisfied with the job that its own experts had done in reviewing and purging “problematic” materials, Allen said, and the agency is also “developing guidelines so it won’t happen again in the future.”
Mueller told representatives of the groups that FBI experts had reviewed almost all of the agency’s training materials, including 160,000 pages of documents. More than 700 documents and 300 presentations were subsequently pulled from the agency’s training materials.
Materials that were pulled contained incorrect or imprecise information, were stereotypical, or “in poor taste,” the FBI said.
While the groups praised Mueller for the review and for listening to their concerns, they also say trust between Muslims, Sikhs and the FBI had been damaged by the episode.
“It is a travesty that the Muslim-American community has lost trust with an agency that is here to protect us,” said Salam Al-Marayati, director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, a Los Angeles-based advocacy group.
In a statement, the groups urged the FBI to acknowledge “the negative impact of these training materials on the Muslim-American community.”
Allen said he didn’t know whether such a statement would be forthcoming, but said Mueller had already spoken several times about his regret over the episode and his appreciation for the Muslim community’s cooperation with the FBI in thwarting terrorist attacks.
“The FBI views the Muslim community as a useful partner in stopping terrorism, and we appreciate the cooperation they’ve given us,” Allen said.
'scuse me while I laugh out loud.
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