{"id":4578,"date":"2010-07-24T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2010-08-04T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T14:00:14","slug":"cair-protests-islamophobic-training-for-virginia-terrorism-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4578","title":{"rendered":"CAIR protests &#8220;Islamophobic&#8221; training for Virginia terrorism task force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> July 24, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A CAIR press release called upon FBI Norfolk and the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force (TJTTF) \u201cexplain\u201d why Robert Spencer \u2013\u00a0 whom they described as \u201ca leader of an anti-Islam hate group\u201d \u2013\u00a0 was invited to offer training to state and federal law enforcement officers.\u00a0 &#8220;Our nation&#8217;s law enforcement personnel should not receive training from the head of a hate group that seeks to demonize Islam and to prevent American Muslims from exercising their rights as citizens,&#8221; said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer, a respected author, blogger, Islam expert and co-founder of Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA) stated in a blog post that he &#8220;gave two two-hour seminars on the belief-system of Islamic jihadists to the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-anti-islam-hate-group-leader-trains-va-terror-task-force-99169394.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-anti-islam-hate-group-leader-trains-va-terror-task-force-99169394.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CAIR_Spencer_FBI.pdf\">(Local Backup PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On July 27th\u00a0the Center for Security Policy sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4633\">letter to\u00a0FBI Agent Alex Turner\u00a0<\/a>concerning CAIR\u2019s unregistered foreign agent status. The letter identified CAIR\u2019s urging\u00a0of the organization\u00a0to &#8220;explain&#8221; its recent actions as a foreign influence operation.\u00a0 A copy of the letter was also sent to Bureau Chief Heather Hunt of the Foreign Agents Registration Unit at the Department of Justice. A similar <a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4639\">letter was also sent to Robert Spencer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: July 24, 2010 Description: A CAIR press release called upon FBI Norfolk and the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force (TJTTF) \u201cexplain\u201d why Robert Spencer \u2013\u00a0 whom they described as \u201ca leader of an anti-Islam hate group\u201d \u2013\u00a0 was invited to offer training to state and federal law enforcement officers.\u00a0 &#8220;Our nation&#8217;s [&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":[115,125,122,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-federal-agencies","category-islamophobia","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578","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=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}