Weeks added to required 'enrichment' program:'We all need to learn and understand each other'
The FBI believes its agents still aren't sensitive enough to Muslims and their culture, so the bureau has extended by "a few weeks" its Islamic cultural "enrichment" training program, WND has learned.
During a recent outreach event at a Washington-area mosque, FBI officials also reassured a large turnout of concerned Muslims that the bureau is not profiling Arabs and Muslims for terrorism, and has made investigating alleged "hate crimes" against them and other minorities "the second-highest priority in the criminal division of the FBI."
Among the officials who attended the Feb. 8 "town hall meeting" at the large ADAMS Center mosque were Timothy Healy, deputy assistant director for FBI intelligence, and Dave Bennett, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Washington field office.
The officials said terrorism is "not a new phenomenon" limited to Muslims, and they cited abortion-clinic bomber Eric Rudolph as an example of a Christian terrorist.
While they said they are concerned about the threat from "homegrown terror" perpetuated by second-generation Muslim immigrants, the officials assured the Muslim audience they are no more concerned about such homegrown attacks than they are "about bank robberies," and are not targeting the Muslim community for special surveillance.
One official offered that FBI headquarters has extended the bureau's Arabic curriculum, which includes Muslim culture, by "a few weeks" to expose agents to Islam and cultivate a better understanding of the faith.
"We all need to learn and understand each other," he said, adding that the Muslim sensitivity program is part of basic training for agents.
"One of the things that the FBI believes in is diversity," he said. "Diversity is important."
To that end, he says the bureau is "under a hiring push this year" and is heavily recruiting Muslim agents. The FBI wants to hire 900 FBI agents and 2,000 professional support staff, including Arabic translators, by Sept. 30.
2 comments:
Dear Mr. Tiger:
Boy would I love to desensitize CIA and FBI agents! I'd show them films of people being decapitiated, hung, tortured and children being brainwashed by these senseless, amoral, evil muslim monsters! This article made me bristle!
I shared some of the Anne Coulter essay with my students to illustrate satire. Not one student had heard of her, and one student asked "Was Clinton a bad president?" I suggested she look up Waco Texas, Ruby Ridge, Ron Brown, and Vince Foster. This same student never heard of Winston Churchill-I am trying to teach Orwell's "1984".
Mr. Tiger, I just pray I make it until I retire in a few years. I am angry enough to run for some office!
Hang in there, Lady. Good teachers are hard to find nowadays. The ignorance of your student is no surprise - it's all part of the plan. We can't have educated, principled people doing third-world work - it gets in the way of the Master Plan, the integration of the Americas.
This article illustrates why everyone with half a brain - even Rush Limbaugh (its been tied behind his back so long its rotting) - should have a really bad case of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome).
Bush administration policy and leadership lives by the principle of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. Otherwise know as FASCISM, this principle defies all efforts to make us safe and ensures all efforts towards capitulation and implementation of Shari'a Law will succeed!
Nevilles! All of them!
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