{"id":3386,"date":"2010-05-06T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2010-05-12T13:49:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:49:33","slug":"cair-wa-applauds-law-enforcement-for-dropping-webinar-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3386","title":{"rendered":"CAIR-WA applauds law enforcement for dropping &#8220;webinar&#8221; under pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> May 6, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Washington state chapter  of CAIR announced  that a webinar on security technology for law enforcement personnel  co-sponsored by Security Solutions International (SSI) was canceled  after two of the presenters withdrew from the event.\u00a0 SSI&#8217;s April 29 webinar was to include presentations by employees of  Microsoft, ESRI, the Seattle Police Department, and Washington State  Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>CAIR&#8217;s press release said that &#8220;critics have accused SSI of unfairly linking the faith of Islam to  terrorism in its presentations&#8221; and &#8220;in its trainings, SSI has offered misinformation about Islamic history&#8230; and smeared mainstream American  Muslim organizations.<\/p>\n<p>CAIR said that SSI promotes the documentary &#8220;Obsession&#8221; which it called a &#8220;hate-filled Islamophobic&#8221; film featuring &#8220;a veritable who&#8217;s who of Muslim-bashers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We commend the Seattle Police Department and the Washington State  Patrol for listening to community concerns about a group that promotes  anti-Muslim stereotypes and conspiracy theories,&#8221; said CAIR-WA Executive  Director Arsalan Bukhari. &#8220;Law enforcement agencies nationwide need  training that is free of religious and political agendas and that does  not promote racial profiling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-wash-state-agencies-drop-webinar-over-anti-islam-bias-92990484.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-wash-state-agencies-drop-webinar-over-anti-islam-bias-92990484.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: May 6, 2010 Description: The Washington state chapter of CAIR announced that a webinar on security technology for law enforcement personnel co-sponsored by Security Solutions International (SSI) was canceled after two of the presenters withdrew from the event.\u00a0 SSI&#8217;s April 29 webinar was to include presentations by employees of Microsoft, ESRI, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,122,126,153,223,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-islamophobia","category-law-enforcement","category-national-security","category-io-statelocal-government","category-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}