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05/25/2008: "Does course on Islam give law enforcers wrong idea?"

Bukhari believes the need for police training on issues of profiling and bias was highlighted by an incident last summer in which the FBI launched an international search for two men who took photos below deck on a Washington state ferry. The FBI announced earlier this month that the men were tourists, not terrorists.

Bukhari said law-enforcement agencies need to learn about Islam, but not just in the context of terrorism.

But Solomon Bradman, CEO of Security Solutions International, which is conducting the program, said, "I can't take the responsibility of my course linking their religion to terrorism. I think their religion got linked to terrorism a long time ago."

The purpose of the course, Bradman said, is to teach officers how to protect people from terrorism. His company has provided training to hundreds of agencies, including the FBI, the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.

[ American Jews (eg Solomon Bradman) would clearly prefer the police to take a suspicious view of Muslims, since any terrorist threat to them would almost certainly come from such people. ]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004433567_muslim23m.html