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FEATURE STORY
A Fairfax County Police sergeant who admits tipping off a terrorism suspect that he was under FBI surveillance also helped kill what had been a successful intelligence and terrorism-related training program within his police department.
Weiss Rasool joined with an officer from a nearby sheriff's office to say the Higgins Center for Counter Terrorism Research program was anti-Islam. Now that Rasool admits aiding a suspected terrorist, the Higgins Center is asking to be reinstated.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations appears to have parted ways with one of its highest profile executives, but no one is saying why.
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In a recent New York Times profile, the former head of the city's first Arabic-themed public school is portrayed as a hapless victim of circumstance and a misdirected “right-wing” smear campaign. Then Debbie Almontaser took her case to a radio interview and showed she is anything but.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is refusing to identify the "influential Muslim Americans" and "leading U.S.-based scholars and commentators on Islam" who met with Secretary Michael Chertoff in helping shape a softer approach to government lexicon about terrorists and their ideological motivations.
"Our policy is we don't comment on the Secretary's private schedule," spokeswoman Amy Kudwa told the IPT. Nor would she identify any of the participants' organizational affiliation.
DHS and the State Department's Counterterrorism Communications Center each issued reports urging government employees to avoid words like "jihad," "mujahedeen" or any reference to Islam or Muslims, especially in relation to Al Qaeda. The Investigative Project on Terrorism is making the documents available for the first time.
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