Attorney General: FBI Hurt Terror Fight With ‘Violent Muslim’ Training

[cory777]

Source: Wired

The FBI wasn’t just wrong in teaching its agents that average Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers, Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Tuesday. That bigoted Bureau training undermined the government’s efforts to stop the next terror attack.

The FBI briefings, given to Bureau counterterrorism agents at its academy in Quantico, were not only “flat-out wrong,” Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee. They “really have a negative impact on our ability to communicate effectively” with American Muslims on counterterrorism, civil rights and other issues.

An array of elected and appointed government leaders have denounced the FBI training, since it was first revealed by Danger Room in September. Holder’s comments were the most strident — and highest-level — official condemnation yet. And it reinforces a key point that critics of the Islamophobic briefings have made all along: that tarring “mainstream” Muslims as “radical” and “violent” only helps the real terrorists evade their government pursuers.

That kind of training, Holder insisted, was “inconsistent with what we have been trying to do here at the Department. Those views do not reflect those views of the Justice Department the FBI.”

Read more: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/holder-fbi-islamophobia/

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[Dawson Leery]

1. The law enforcement community at large has a history of doing this

all over the world. They train their agents to be suspicious of everyone for everything. The embrace by the public of this community needs to replaced with accountability by the public.