Muslims
Muslim Group Wants Justice to Investigate Portland FBI
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Muslim civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is none too happy with the Portland FBI. The Associated Press reports that the group wants the Justice Department to investigate the behavior of the Portland FBI, which has barred two Libyan-Americans from returning to the U.S. AP reports that…
FBI Says Training Lecture Critical of Devout Muslims Has Changed
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI presentation at Quantico, Va., to agents that negatively portrayed devout Muslims, has been discontinued, the Associated Press reported Thursday. AP, citing a federal law enforcement official, said the lecture was given for just three days in April. One part of the lecture contended that the more devout Muslim are,…
Justice Wants to Withhold Info in Muslim Calif. Lawsuit
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department feels it has good reason to hide info in a Southern California lawsuit filed by Muslims who claim the FBI monitored them because of their religion. The Associated Press reports that Attorney General Eric Holder, in a court filing on Monday, invoked state secrets rules to try and…
Retired ATF Official Bernie La Forest Pens 2nd Book
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Bernie La Forest, who headed up ATF offices in Kansas City, Detroit, Phoenix and Los Angeles before retiring, has just penned his second suspense novel — “In The Red Dragon’s Shadow.” The murder mystery is chock full of international intrigue and involves the ATF, Detroit Police, guns, radical Muslims from Iraq,…
Latest FBI Sting Highlights Complex Relationship Between Muslims and FBI
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The latest FBI sting involving a Northern Virginia man who was allegedly plotting to blow up subway stations in Northern Virginia highlights the complex relationship the Muslim community has with the FBI. Reporter William Wan of the Washington Post reports when news surfaced that the FBI on Wednesday had…
Pakistani Scientist Gets 86 Years for Trying to Kill U.S. Agents and Soldiers in Afghanistan
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com By all accounts, this was not your typical sentencing. First, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman in New York sentenced a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist to 86 years for trying to kill U.S. federal agents and troops. That came after defendant Aafia Siddiqui, 38, called on Muslims to resist using violence, the…
Islamic Group Threatens to Cut Ties to FBI
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– The sometimes bumpy ties between the FBI and the U.S. Muslim communities could get bumpier. The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT) , a coalition of major U.S. Muslim groups, announced Tuesday that it was considering suspending “outreach relations with the FBI” as a result of…