Biased FBI Training – Islamophobic Brainwashing

Written by Jamal Anderson

US reports and work by CAIR recently identified anti-Muslim propaganda is be used for FBI counter-terrorism training. Publications written by anti-Muslim writers such as  Robert Spencer, who influenced the Norwegian terrorist Anders Brevik, are readily available in book shelves of FBI training centres and their concepts are being taught during FBI counter-terrorism training.

For anyone who could have forgotten the shocking actions of Brevik, he was the gunman who opened fire on the Norwegian Labour Youth Party event and murdered 69 young people and killed a further 10 people through the detonation of a bomb near government buildings. Brevik was strongly influenced by Robert Spencer’s ludicrous theory that people needed to do something to stop the Islamization of the West – otherwise Muslims will be taking over. It is the same drivel pushed by Melanie Phillips: Londonistan and Eurabia (she was also quoted by Brevik). In his "manifesto" Brevik referenced Robert Spencer 64 times and stated that he needed to stop the Islamization of the West. The reason for targeting the Norwegian Labour youth camp? They were campaigning against Israel's treatment of Palestinians, and looking to defend the rights of oppressed Muslims.

Robert Spencer and other pro-Israeli Islamophobes that Brevik quoted, including Pamella Geller, promote the dangerous idea that terrorism is germane in all Muslims – there is no difference between a murderer and a law-abiding Muslim American/British citizen, therefore all Muslims are the enemies of the state and should be legitimate targets, because apparently we are ordered to kill all infidels wherever we find them(!). Robert Spencer and his cronies would like you to think that when any Muslims pop down to the shop to buy a can of cola they might have the urge to kill the cashier if she is less than Muslim. The absurdity of taking things out of context would be funny if the consequences of their rhetoric were not so dangerous. Sadly the results are there for all to see.

In addition to the Islamophobic material, it seems an industry of anti-Muslim FBI trainers has developed, and with little or no vetting they are polluting the minds of FBI officers. Biased training sessions have become public following complaints made by FBI officers and numerous articles by Wired. Examples of the biased training includes:

• A document, signed by a local FBI agent and distributed to the class, stated in part: "A careful comparison of Arab/Islamist propaganda and Nazi propaganda reveals the closeness of these links... I would suggest that the current conflicts are a continuation of Nazi policies carried out by Arabs..."
• Instructors saying a "true Muslim" had to support or take part in the killing of non-Muslims. The instructor also told the class, according to a handful of attendees, that Muhammad [s.w.s] was an epileptic and the Quran didn't come to him in a series of heavenly visions, but instead was actually part of an epileptic fit.
• An instructor was teaching agents not only that Islam was a violent religion, but also was erroneously linking religiosity to terrorism. He said the more religious a Muslim in this country was, the more he should be seen as a potential suspect.

So what is currently being done, now that these findings have come to light? The FBI have said that they will review their training methods. Congress have been questioning the FBI director, Mueller. He claims that such incidents are isolated, although there is evidence to the contrary. There are reported cases since 2006 where FBI intelligence assessments list increased religious fervor among Muslims as a potential indicator of terrorism. All material is allegedly now being checked at their HQ for bias. This admission provides some insight into how little coordination there is between the FBI departments across America. We shall wait and see what will happen.

Dealing with the FBI training situation is however only treating a symptom and not the cause. The cause is quite clear. There are groups of pro-Israeli ‘clerics’ who religiously seek to make ALL Muslims, and by association all people who oppose Israel, legitimate targets. When you trawl the internet forums, it is clear that they have already influenced many people into thinking that attacks on Muslims are justified. The aim of this disease is to get the Christians to fight and kill Muslims, strengthening Israel and making the continued persecution of Palestinian Muslims appear to be justified in occupied Palestinian territories.

Here in Britain we are yet to discover the full extent of similar infiltration of anti-Muslim propaganda in Whitehall but from what we already know the bias towards Israel is so strong that it causes British politicians to act in very strange ways. The latest was the Education Secretary Michael Gove barring school students from attending a Palestinian literary festival. Apparently he wrote some scary letters to the school as one spokesperson for the Department of Education said, "The Secretary of State wrote to a number of schools seeking an assurance that they were not in breach of their duty under section 407 of the Education Act 1996 requiring that where political issues are brought to the attention of pupils, they are offered a balanced presentation of opposing views."

Sadly we don't see politicians in Britain rushing for the rule book on "balanced presentation" when the subject is Israel, as in the case of Mr Gove who is always glad to go out on a limb to support Israel, when section 407 of the Education Act 1996 is never mentioned.