Posted on 07/29/2003 11:13:28 AM PDT by jgrubbs
I work for a publishing company, this was in our Company Communication/Newsletter today:
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The FBI is Watching! 200 copies of the book, Islam and Terrorism, were recently sold to the FBI. They apparently heard the author, Mark Gabriel, on a radio broadcast we scheduled and first called in to get more information. They later called to place the order. |
This is the book that the FBI just purchased:
The Western media declares that "at its core, Islam is moderate and tolerant of others" (New York Times Magazine). Author Mark A. Gabriel, former professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, disagrees. He says that terrorists are practicing Islam just as Muhammad intended.
As a child, Gabriel grew up in a Muslim family in Egypt and was heavily indoctrinated. By the age of twelve he had memorized the entire Qur'an. He went on to become a top student at the most prestigious Islamic university in the world, Al-Azhar in Cairo, Egypt. As a student and professor of Islamic history, he rubbed shoulders with those who are at the forefront of propagating the tenets of Islamic terrorism. He actually took classes with Sheik Umar Abd al-Rahman, who was convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bomb attack and is now in prison.
In his book Gabriel explains:
For the readers of this book, the motive behind Islamic world activity will no longer be a mystery. Each action is obviously rooted in the philosophy of Islam. Now both the Christian and the political world must decide how to react to Muhammad's revelation.
The Sword of the Prophet: History, Theology, Impact on the World by Serge Trifkovich
Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide by Bat Yeor, et al
Radical Islam is an insane murder plot, "moderate" Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.
scholars to preach
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
By Paul Sperry
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – Even as the FBI takes new heat over the 9-11 report's revelation that it overlooked ties between a Muslim cleric and two of the al-Qaida hijackers, it is putting agents and new recruits through a Muslim sensitivity program that includes inviting Muslim clerics and leaders to preach about the allegedly peaceful attributes of Islam.
National Arab-American and Muslim leaders have made presentations at an FBI training course on civil rights here, and at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va., as part of "Enrichment Training Sessions" for new special agents there.
In addition, the imam of a large Manhattan mosque has lectured veteran counterterrorism investigators at the FBI's New York field office about misinterpretation of the meaning of jihad in the Koran, the sacred book of Muslims.
The sensitivity training program, denounced by some active and former agents, was mandated last year by FBI Director Robert Mueller.
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FBI headquarters defends the program as a way to reach out to the Muslim community in America.
"I hate the word 'sensitivity' training," said FBI spokesman Ed Cogswell. "I would call it an awareness training relative to cultural issues."
Mueller, who also served in the previous Bush administration, has met several times with Arab and Muslim groups since the Sept. 11 attacks. He even agreed to be the keynote speaker at last year's American Muslim Council conference here – a move that drew fire from AMC critics, who note the group has sung the praises of Islamic terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah.
"Mueller should lead the FBI in this war, and leave the sensitivity sessions to the human resources department or CNN," complained retired FBI special agent Don Lavey, who served 20 years in the bureau's counterterrorism unit.
"Let's just hope the director is leading the charge in this war against terrorism with an equal amount of zeal that he shows for cultural sensitivities," added Lavey, who claims Mueller is so politically correct he refuses to use "Islamic" and "terrorism" in the same sentence.
Last October, the FBI invited the head of an influential Arab-American advocacy group to speak to about 400 new agents in the auditorium of the FBI Academy. The lecture by Dr. Ziad Asali, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, was mandatory and lasted about one hour.
Asali, a Palestinian refugee, "talked about how peaceful their religion is, and how not to offend Muslims ... showing respect for their culture, things like that," said FBI Academy spokesman Kirk Crawford.
And at least four times this year, the FBI's New York field office has held all-day sensitivity training sessions, not far from Ground Zero, featuring Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Masjid al-Farah mosque.
Speaking for about two hours each session, "he gave an overview of Islamic culture and some of the differences between what fundamentalist terrorist groups say are the teachings of the Koran and what he believes, as a student of religion, the Koran actually says," said special agent James Margolin, spokesman for the FBI New York office.
Rauf asserted that the Koran "certainly doesn't counsel terrorism, murder or mayhem," Margolin said. And he said terrorists have misinterpreted the Koranic term jihad to mean violent, or armed, struggle against nonbelievers. Rauf claims it means internal struggle.
The rest of the training sessions were conducted by a Muslim FBI agent born in Pakistan. Foria Younis, who works for the Joint Terrorism Task Force, advised fellow agents to respect Muslims by honoring their religious and cultural customs.
For instance, she said they should refrain from showing a Muslim the soles of their shoes, which is a sign of disrespect, Margolin says.
"I learned at that session that if you cross your legs and show the sole of your shoe to a Muslim person during a conversation, that is an offense. It's a sign of disrespect," he said.
Some former colleagues of the late FBI agent John O'Neill say the legendary al-Qaida hunter would probably roll over in his grave if he knew about the Muslim sensitivity program required at his old New York office, where he headed counterterrorism operations last decade.
"This would not have been an issue high on his priority list," said Ivian Smith, a retired FBI manager who worked in counterintelligence at bureau headquarters here.
"He would not have been interested in improving the cultural awareness of a bunch of FBI agents. He would have considered it a waste of time," Smith said. "And knowing John, he would have probably figured out a way to avoid going to the meetings."
"He was no-nonsense," he added, "brutally focused on al-Qaida."
Still, Smith allows that the cultural training could be beneficial to investigators if designed to help agents improve their field interviewing and interrogation techniques to gain the cooperation of Muslim witnesses and suspects.
Margolin says that's certainly one of the goals of the program.
For example, he notes, agents also are taught to respect the dietary restrictions of devout Muslims. So-called halal dietary laws require their meat be butchered in a certain way. Also, they cannot eat pork or pork byproducts.
"So if you're attempting to be accommodating to a religious Muslim you're interviewing or someone you may have arrested, and you say, 'Gee, I'll run across the street and get you something to eat; you know, you haven't eaten in six hours,' you don't get them a cheeseburger – and you definitely don't get them a bacon cheeseburger," Margolin said.
"That would be taken as an offense, when in fact what you're trying to do is maybe open some channels of communication," he added.
The same concerns apply to showing a Muslim witness or suspect the sole of you shoe, he says.
But Lavey insists the program's main objective is political: Mollifying vocal Arab-American and Muslim interest groups.
He says Mueller is so worried about offending American Muslims that he's loath to even describe the most serious terrorist threat against America as "Islamic."
"There's a continued reluctance on the part of the entire FBI to ever use Islamic and terrorism in the same sentence," he said.
Indeed, a search of transcripts of Mueller's congressional testimonies and public speeches turns up no examples of him using the phrase "Islamic terrorism" or "Islamic terrorists," although he has used the phrase "militant Islamic groups." He typically describes terrorism in generic terms, such as "international terrorism."
Margolin of the New York office also avoided using the term "Islamic terrorists," opting instead for "fundamentalist terrorist groups," in a lengthy interview with WorldNetDaily.
Though bureau spokesman Cogswell admits political correctness "can get out of hand" in Washington, he insists there's no bureau-wide "edict" against describing terrorism or terrorists as "Islamic."
Lavey and others fear Muslim leaders are teaching FBI agents the PC, sanitized version of the Koran in the interest of mainstreaming Islam. The message agents are hearing is that Muslim terrorists have misinterpreted the Koran, and that devout Muslims in America don't sympathize with them, even though the Koran is replete with instructions exhorting the Muslim faithful to fight, even slay, the "unbelievers" in the cause of Allah. Unbelievers include Christians and Jews.
If agents go into investigations with the assumption that American Muslims don't believe what al-Qaida terrorists believe and don't sympathize with their cause, they may be easily snowed by Muslim suspects, witnesses and informants, Lavey and others argue.
Agents may also be less inclined to investigate Muslim clerics and scholars themselves, even though some preaching in this country have been tied to Islamic terrorists.
For example, the 900-page report on 9-11 intelligence failures released last week took the FBI to task for failing to pursue leads back to a local imam involved with two of the al-Qaida hijackers who helped crash an American Airlines jumbo jet into the Pentagon.
Khalid Almidhhar and Nawaf Alhazmi were close to the imam, Anwar Awlaki. He and the hijackers moved from San Diego to Falls Church, Va., where they joined the Dar al-Hijrah mosque. A phone number for the mosque was found in the German apartment of Ramzi Binalshibh, roommate of hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta.
Margolin, for his part, says he's inclined to accept the New York imam's interpretation of the Koran, even though he admits he hasn't read any of it himself.
"I haven't read the text," he said. "But even in Judaism and Christianity, there are portions of the Old and New Testament that are open to interpretation, and people who are politically left or politically right use the Bible as the authority for their positions."
And besides, he adds, the bureau's job is to investigate criminal acts of violence that have been committed, not instructions for violence that may or may not be directed by a religion against those who do not believe in that religion.
"While what the Koran actually says is not insignificant, what we're ultimately concerned with is criminality," Margolin said.
Kevin Donovan, director of the FBI's New York office, is overseeing the Islam lecture series, mandatory for the city's 1,100 agents.
Margolin, for his part, says he's inclined to accept the New York imam's interpretation of the Koran, even though he admits he hasn't read any of it himself. "I haven't read the text," he said. "But even in Judaism and Christianity, there are portions of the Old and New Testament that are open to interpretation, and people who are politically left or politically right use the Bible as the authority for their positions."
Yet another worthless Mueller type. If he hasn't read the SOURCE of the jihad motivation, then he is both inept, and worse than incompetent. He is also, by virtue of his dogmatic 'haven't read it' intransigence compounding his dubious distinction by then...also without reading evidently....drawing a moral equivalent to the teachings of the Old and New Testament. I wonder if anybody has demanded that he show them precisely where in the New Testament any of the carnality and kill-your-enemies mentality is justified...by ANY verse. Period. And then, why is no one in his face? Why is Agent Margolin not being accused of being insensitive. And that he is perpetrating a 'hate-crime' for his blatant and brazen anti-christian and anti-semitic BIGOTRY?
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