How We Train Our Cops to Fear Islam

[echoandsway]

There aren’t nearly enough counterterrorism experts to instruct all of America’s police.
So we got these guys instead.

By Meg Stalcup and Joshua CrazeOn a bright January morning in 2010, at Broward College in Davie, Florida, about sixty police officers and other frontline law enforcement officials gathered in a lecture hall for a course on

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[aviv_b]

Give me a break. If you eat halal food, you're a terrorist? Puleez. And vegetarians are all socialists, right? And vegans, don't ask its too frightening to even talk about!

This has some of the worst stereotyping crap I've seen about Muslims.

And my tax dollars are paying for it. Lovely. Just lovely.

[blackjedii]

I met someone from Iran today.

He was ~really tall~ <3 <3 <3

[echoandsway]

But did he have a conical beard, really.

[jugglingeggs]

More importantly can he get free falafels?

[blackjedii]

No and no!

He must have been disguised as a normal college student.

[13oct]

Reading this actually made me feel physically sick. How can people like this justify their actions? And he gets paid to spread his bigoted hatred. It's just beyond belief.

[krazykat88]

he says that there have been "“Over thirteen thousand attacks" - I'm assuming thats world wide, because otherwise it makes no sense, and even then, It seems a bit odd.
And whats this fuckery -

"“When you have a Muslim that wears a headband, regardless of color or insignia, basically what that is telling you is ‘I am willing to be a martyr.’”"

Uhm - what does he mean here? men who wear those skullcap things? or women in hijab? doesn't really matter, either way, its stereotyping and ick!

[acidosaur]

yeah, i'm pretty baffled as to how that stat came about.

[the_gabih]

Wikipedia gives 23 terrorist attacks within the US since 2001. About half of them actually made it to the bomb going off, and of those, several caused no real damage, and some were against Muslims.

...yeah.

[ginmar]

Well, let's hope this asshole can tell the difference between a Japanese person and a Muslim person because the Japanese often wear headbands with slogans on them for competitions, festivals, religious ceremonies and....so do Muslims, sometimes. Totally innocent. There's some kind of penis festival at a Japanese shrine every year. I'd like to see the TSA bust some of those guys and get beaten with giant dildos or something.

[x_butterfly19_x]

constantly hear of jihadists who are trying to kill as many non-Muslims as they can.

CONSTANTLY.

This guy is brilliant,” she said. “I can’t believe it: just like gang affiliations, you can distinguish between secular and jihadist Muslims.”

Spot the mistake.

America today is too politically correct to acknowledge the reality of Islamic fanaticism, Kharoba said. “Would Islam be tolerated if everyone knew its true message?” he asked the class. “From a Muslim perspective, do you want non-Muslims to know the truth about Islam?”

“No!” came the audience reply.

“So what do Muslims do?” Kharoba demanded.

“Lie!”

Kharoba strode forward to the front of the room, his voice slower now, more measured. “Islam is a highly violent radical religion that mandates that all of the earth must be Muslim.”

Pot, kettle, black. urgh.

I understand they need to combat terrorism but come on. Breeding ignorance isn't helping.

[7eventeen]

"This guy is brilliant,” she said. “I can’t believe it: just like gang affiliations, you can distinguish between secular and jihadist Muslims.”

Spot the mistake."

is it everything except "she said"?

[arabgirl]

It's probably the "secular Muslims" part, since, well... apparently she doesn't actually know what secular means :P

But yeah, pretty much the whole thing.

[7eventeen]

Yeah, I saw that originally, but then I re-read "this guy is brilliant" and had to change my comment.