Thursday, November 10, 2011

Anti Muslim Training (CAIR)


On September 21st, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) joined a coalition of civil rights and other Muslim advocacy groups at a press conference outside of the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. to express their concerns.  CAIR sent a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller calling for “swift action” to reform the agency’s use of anti-Muslim instructors and Islamophobic materials during counter-terrorism training.



What Media Coverage has been dedicated to this issue?
  • NPR (National Public Radio), received emails from agents in Quantico.One email said that Prophet Muhammad as a military leader, and a "true Muslim" had to take a part in killing a non-Muslim. Muslims say that this is not true, and that in our holy book, the Quran did not say anything like that. The FBI have found false information.  NPR dedicated a news piece, "How Did Anti-Muslim Bias Into FBI Training?", this information leading people to think Muslims are terrorists and their prophet Muhammad is the military leader. 
  • Robert Mueller, and FBI director was being interviewed  about this issue, he apologizes for the inappropriate training material and insures that they will prevent such act to ever be seen a the FBI's training sessions.
Public Officials:
  • Jan Schakowsky challenged the anti-Muslim training and even questioned Robert Mueller about the issue.

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