FBI halts training lecture critical of Muslims
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Reacting to revelations that FBI training materials cast mainstream Muslims as likely to be violent, terrorist sympathizers, the agency says it is dropping a lecture that criticizes Islam, the Associated Press reports.
At the Bureau's training ground in Quantico, Virginia, agents are shown a chart contending that the more "devout" a Muslim, the more likely he is to be "violent." Those destructive tendencies cannot be reversed, an FBI instructional presentation adds: "Any war against non-believers is justified" under Muslim law; a "moderating process cannot happen if the Koran continues to be regarded as the unalterable word of Allah." ...
A former al-Qaeda hunter said such briefing could backfire.
"Teaching counterterrorism operatives about obscure aspects of Islam without context, without objectivity, and without covering other non-religious drivers of dangerous behavior is no way to stop actual terrorists," said Robert McFadden, who recently retired from the Navy Criminal Investigative Service.
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At the Bureau's training ground in Quantico, Virginia, agents are shown a chart contending that the more "devout" a Muslim, the more likely he is to be "violent." Those destructive tendencies cannot be reversed, an FBI instructional presentation adds: "Any war against non-believers is justified" under Muslim law; a "moderating process cannot happen if the Koran continues to be regarded as the unalterable word of Allah." ...
A former al-Qaeda hunter said such briefing could backfire.
"Teaching counterterrorism operatives about obscure aspects of Islam without context, without objectivity, and without covering other non-religious drivers of dangerous behavior is no way to stop actual terrorists," said Robert McFadden, who recently retired from the Navy Criminal Investigative Service.
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