The Shocking Way US Cops Are Trained to Hate Muslims

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via AlterNet:




Washington Monthly / By Meg Stalcup and Joshua Craze

The Shocking Way US Cops Are Trained to Hate Muslims
Increasingly, American beat cops are exposed to virulently anti-Muslim teachings, by self-styled "terrorism experts" with no experience in national security.

March 10, 2011 |


On 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 combating terrorism in the Sunshine State. Some in plain clothes, others in uniform, they drifted in clutching Styrofoam cups of coffee, greeting acquaintances from previous statewide training sessions. The instructor, Sam Kharoba, an olive-skinned man wearing rimless glasses and an ill-fitting white dress shirt, stood apart at the front of the hall reviewing PowerPoint slides on his laptop.

As he got under way, Kharoba described how, over the next three days, he would teach his audience the fundamentals of Islam. “We constantly hear statements,” Kharoba began, “that Islam is a religion of peace, and we constantly hear of jihadists who are trying to kill as many non-Muslims as they can.” Kharoba’s course would establish for his students that one of these narratives speaks to a deep truth about Islam, and the other is a calculated lie.

“How many terror attacks have there been since 9/11? Muslim terror attacks,” Kharoba asked the room. Silence. “Let’s start the bidding.”

“Over a hundred,” someone volunteered. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/rights/150209/the_shocking_way_us_cops_are_trained_to_hate_muslims/

[bemildred]

1. You can't have a police state without an external enemy subverting from within.

Because the real target is your own citizens, and you can't just say that.

[libodem]

2. Yee Gafs

[Scuba]

3. Bingo.