- San Diego CAIR chapter, various mosques in the surrounding area, and many civil rights groups submitted a letter to the San Diego FBI asking for clarification on media reports about FBI anti-muslim training and instructors.
- CAIR national sent a letter to FBI director Robert Mueller calling for swift reforms on the agency's use of anti-Islam training material and instructors.
- CAIR called on the CIA not to use one of the Islamophobic counter-terror trainers who were exposed on NPR for allegedly smearing a respected Ohio Muslim.
- CAIR has in the past called on the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and Congress to provide oversight for apparently widespread anti-Muslim bias in the training of law enforcement, security and military personnel nationwide
- CAIR noted the release of an 80-page report by Political Research Associates (PRA), titled “Manufacturing the Muslim Menace: Private Firms, Public Servants, & the Threat to Rights and Security,” which details a systemic failure to regulate content in counterterrorism training.
- CAIR’s New York chapter (CAIR-NY) called on the New York Police Department (NYPD) to investigate how a notorious anti-Muslim propaganda film came to be used in mandatory counterterrorism training.
- CAIR and the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender released a report that documents growing Islamophobia in the United States and offers recommendations about how to challenge the troubling phenomenon.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Actions taken by CAIR on anti-Muslim FBI training and related incidents
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