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For starters, brainwashing police into believing jihad means “internal struggle against sin,” and not holy war, desensitizes them to pro-jihad materials discovered in the possession of Muslims they’ve stopped on the road or during the inspections process at the international airports. Rather than ask probing questions, they may instead give them a pass.

CAIR crows on its Web site that it “has conducted diversity/sensitivity training on Islam and Muslims for the FBI [and] several local law enforcement agencies.” And has it. Here is just a sample of the many police departments and law enforcement agencies CAIR has trained—at taxpayer expense—since 2001:

Most alarming, CAIR also has been training participants at the counterterrorism division of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. FLETC serves as the interagency law enforcement training organization for more than eighty federal agencies.
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If the feds knew CAIR were contributing heavily to the defense fund of a convicted Georgia cop killer, as detailed in a previous chapter, perhaps they’d rethink inviting the group to that state to train their officers.

And now that CAIR has been tied definitively to terrorism, the heads of all these police departments and agencies might consider deprogramming their officers following CAIR’s brainwashing. Though the damage is done, it’s not irreversible.

Experts warn that by whitewashing jihad, the sensitivity training misinforms agents and may prevent them from taking effective counterterror measures.

“The agents are going to be misinformed and they will be overly sensitive and they will not ask certain questions,” asserts Zeyno Baran, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank.
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The Department of Homeland Security has invited CAIR to conduct sensitivity training for officers and supervisors with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, which is charged with rounding up and deporting fugitive aliens. The course in Chicago, for example, was taught by local CAIR officials Christina Abraham and Mariyam Hussain. So far, more than thirty ICE staffers have gone through the CAIR program, which among other things, corrects “misconceptions about jihad” calling for holy war.
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The Chicago training led to Homeland Security taking CAIR on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation’s busiest airport—at the same time British authorities were working to break up a major plot to blow up U.S.-bound airplanes.

In June 2006, a senior Homeland Security official from Washington personally guided officials from CAIR—and even one from the Holy Land Foundation—on a behind-the-scenes tour of customs screening operations at O’Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.

The tour included secure areas normally off-limits to travelers. These Hamas operatives posing as moderate Muslim activists were squired around the entire facility, including a walk through the point-of-entry, customs stations, secondary screening, and interview rooms. In addition, customs agents were asked to describe for CAIR and its terror-supporting entourage various features of the high-risk passenger lookout system.
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So, unwittingly, the government explained to terrorist supporters how programs designed to catch terrorists work.

In a meeting that same day, Brian Humphrey, Customs and Border Protection’s executive director of field operations, assured CAIR that customs agents do not single out Muslim passengers for special screening and that they all must undergo a mandatory course in Muslim sensitivity training.

That course includes watching a video featuring Margaret Nydell, director of graduate studies in the Arabic Department at Georgetown University, home to an Islamic studies center lavishly funded by the Saudis and closely allied with CAIR. A leading Islamic apologist, Nydell is the author of
Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Westerners
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A Customs and Border Protection official describes her instruction as “politically correct drivel.”

“It’s all about how Islam means peace and tolerance,” he says. “We’re told how to deal with Arabs and Muslims, that they are loving people and not terrorists. And that jihad is struggle with sin, and has nothing to do with violence.”

“
Mein Kampf
means my struggle,” he adds, skeptically. “Jihad means something more than that, but they’re not telling us.”
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‘THEY ADMIRE OUR VALUES’

A review of the government-produced video, which runs roughly thirty minutes, reveals several fallacies in consultant Nydell’s presentation.

Referring to all Muslims, Nydell maintains that “certainly they don’t approve of terrorist acts,” adding that Islam “is a perfectly decent religion with good moral teachings or it wouldn’t have survived.”
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Her conclusion flies in the face of several major polls that show a sizable number of Muslims around the world support violent jihad, including Muslims in America. A 2007 Pew Research Center poll, in fact, found one in four younger Muslims in the U.S. believe suicide bombings are justified to defend Islam.

Nydell also claims that jihad does not mean holy war. She defines it as “a word that means effort” or “the daily struggle to keep yourself on the true path.” If a Muslim attacks you, she says, “they’re just trying to regain their honor” after suffering some form of indignity at the hands of infidels. Nydell completely glosses over the hardcore militancy codified and mandated in Islam’s holy texts.

What of all the Muslim terrorists invoking Islam? She posits that these are primarily young, uneducated Arabs or South Asians who are “disenfranchised” by government oppression and poverty, and are lashing out for reasons other than religion. Never mind that most of the 9/11 hijackers, as well as the 7/7 bombers in London, were well-educated adults from affluent families.

Nydell also places a fig leaf over
Shariah
law and its call for Islamic domination, arguing it’s no threat to Western institutions or the West’s way of life.

There is no reason to question the motives of Muslim immigrants, Nydell lectures border agents in the training video. “They’re not here to change us,” she assures them. “Don’t believe they’re jealous, and they’re going to try to come over here and make you and me go to the mosque and all this kind of stuff.”

“They admire our values,” Nydell continues, as orchestral music soars in the background of the video. “Don’t let anyone tell you they hate freedom.”

She asserts that it’s incumbent upon agents to treat Muslim travelers with the utmost respect. For instance, if they come across a copy of the Quran in their belongings, “don’t put something on top of it,” because that could offend them. Nothing can sit on top of their sacred book.

And if they find a Muslim praying, she advises, “Don’t walk in front of them,” and be sure to “keep quiet.”

Another Customs and Border Protection official says the video is virtually useless as a terror-fighting tool for border agents, who are the first line of defense against Islamic terrorists sneaking into the country.

“Just teaching Islam 101—you know, they pray five times a day, they face Mecca—without any inside analysis is like teaching a college graduate sex education,” he says. “It’s a waste of time.”
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LOSING THE LEXICON WAR

After British authorities disrupted 2006’s transatlantic skyterror plot, then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff distributed a memo to department staff oddly bereft of any reference to the terrorists’ religion.

“Over the last few hours,” he wrote in the one-page “
MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY CHERTOFF TO ALL DHS EMPLOYEES
,” “British authorities have arrested a significant number of extremists engaged in a substantial plot to destroy multiple passenger aircraft flying from the United Kingdom to the United States.”
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The so-called “extremists” were known at the time to be British Muslims of Pakistani descent, yet Chertoff neglected to identify them as such—or even address their motive for attacking America. Yet the plot was serious enough for him to raise the nation’s threat level to severe, or red, for commercial flights.

It turns out that he and other homeland security officials have sanitized the language used in the war on Islamic terror following years of mau-mauing from CAIR, ISNA, MPAC, and other Muslim Brotherhood pressure groups about the language causing “offense” and “insult” to Muslims.

Both Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center, or NCTC, have issued staffwide memos imposing Orwellian speech code. It is no longer advisable for staff to use terms such as “jihadist,” “Islamist,” or even “Islamic terrorist.” Acceptable alternatives include “violent extremist” or just plain “terrorist.”

The terms “jihad,” “Islamofascism” and “
caliphate
” are also out. “Don’t invoke Islam” in any way, says the new directive from NCTC, which was issued early in 2008.
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Avoid “inflating the religious bases” for Islamic terrorism and make “no overt reference to Islam,” lest you “cause offense,” advises Homeland Security in its nine-page memo, also issued early in 2008 and marked “For Official Use Only.”
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The FBI has followed a similar speech ban. And now, as a supposed gesture of goodwill to Muslims the world over, the Obama administration reportedly has dropped the already generic “war on terror” altogether from the Homeland Security vernacular.

The irony of allowing groups that want to censor debate over their own ties to terrorism to censor our language in the war on terror is not lost on FBI agents. They lament that the bad guys are winning the lexicon war.

“Political correctness has darn near beaten common sense police work to death,” says Ben R. Furman, a retired FBI agent who led an international multiagency task force that investigated chemical and nuclear terrorism threats.
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How can we defeat the enemy if we can’t even define it? Furman and others ask. This is a war on Islamic terrorists, yet it won’t be won if agents have to stop every five minutes to make sure they’re being PC. It won’t be won if they’re forced to put up blinders to the religious motivation of the enemy.

Such political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism, agents say, because it appeases terrorism, and enables it to operate in the shadows.

RECRUITING ARABIC LINGUISTS AND AGENTS

To be fair, top FBI brass have to deal with things that are well above the pay grade and concern of agents. Besides the liberal press, they have to contend with the EEOC. Internal FBI records show the agency has been sued by no fewer than fourteen Arab and Muslim employees since 9/11, and the last thing headquarters wants is more accusations of discrimination, even if most of them are frivolous.
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It’s absolutely petrified of the bigot-branding machine deployed by CAIR and other Muslim-and Arab-rights groups—as well as the ACLU, which has asked CAIR for “FBI ethnicity related cases,” according to a copy of notes obtained from a meeting between the ACLU and CAIR in Washington.
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But its solution could not be more wrongheaded: Hiring even more Arab and Muslim employees, while promoting the existing ones who are complaining.

FBI director Mueller has launched a national hiring blitz that includes setting up recruitment booths at ISNA conventions and placing full-page recruiting ads in ISNA’s magazine
Islamic Horizons
. That’s right, the FBI is recruiting among Muslim Brotherhood fronts that support jihad.

Republicans in Congress have rebuked the Justice Department for allowing such an unholy alliance. The evidence naming ISNA as a leading branch of the American Muslim Brotherhood is overwhelming, argue U.S. Representatives Sue Myrick (R-NC) and Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and its links to U.S. fundraising efforts on behalf of Hamas are equally strong.

“Establishing a partnership with ISNA is exactly the wrong approach at this critical juncture in history, setting a precedent that radical jihadists should be the conduit between the U.S. government and the American Muslim population,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to the former attorney general.
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At the same time, the FBI is sending recruiters into Muslim Brotherhood mosques, including the CAIR-endorsed ADAMS Center, a Muslim Brotherhood hub singled out by the Freedom House as one of the top distributors of Saudi-sponsored anti-Semitic and anti-Christian dogma.
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