Muslims against Wiesenthal Center's production of Seattle police training program
Muslims in Seattle are showing their anti-semitic side at the same time as they oppose any security program that's meant to teach how to deal with them (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):
And it's just like them to make up lies about Jews "pilfering land" from "poor, innocent" Islamists. The very same Islamists who were nazi collaborators in the Holocaust.
Saying it's not going to take sides in someone else's feud, the Seattle Police Department is going ahead with a racial-awareness training program that has raised concerns among some local Muslims.And they should not be claiming innocence and undermining America's right to defend itself against Islamofascism.
They are troubled not by the content of the training program but by the organization that produced it: the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a 32-year-old Los Angeles-based Jewish human-rights organization perhaps best known for its Holocaust education work.
They accuse the Wiesenthal Center of spreading fear toward Islam by producing or promoting films about extremism within Islam. And they, like many other Muslims elsewhere, are also angry at the center for building a Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem partially on top of what once was an ancient Muslim cemetery.
"The center has an anti-Muslim agenda, to be frank," contends Arsalan Bukhari, president of the Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The Wiesenthal Center disagrees.
The disputed land on which the Jerusalem museum is being built has been used as a parking lot for about the past 50 years, according to the center. And Liebe Geft, director of the center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, says the films in question take on anti-Semitism and the dangers of a small subsection of Islam, not Islam as a whole.
The center "does not condemn Islam. It actively confronts Islamophobia," Geft said.
The Seattle Police Department got caught in the middle when it began looking for a training program for employees on race issues.
It found Perspectives on Profiling, a Wiesenthal Center program geared toward people in law enforcement. The program features interactive exercises and vignettes on CD-ROM of real-life scenarios officers might encounter.
The goal is to make officers more conscious of what and how they think about race, and how their thinking might affect the split-second decisions they make on the streets every day.
The department considered other programs but "this was far and away the best quality," said Deputy Chief Clark Kimerer. The cost was also "remarkably low," he said: about $18,000.[...]
That decision disappoints a local coalition composed of mainly Muslims, but including people of other faiths as well.
They say Seattle police should not be undertaking training sponsored by a group they believe is spreading fear of Muslims, regardless of how good the training is.
And it's just like them to make up lies about Jews "pilfering land" from "poor, innocent" Islamists. The very same Islamists who were nazi collaborators in the Holocaust.
Labels: anti-semitism, islam, United States
