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In yet another curtsy to the politically correct orthodoxy, President Barack Obama’s White House plans to tinker with federal police curriculums for counterterrorism training classes. The first bit of “revamping” is the removal of all material that groups, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, find offensive or containing a “negative” image of Muslims. It’s a government-wide call to end Islamophobia, according to a blog by a Washington, DC-based watchdog group that investigates, exposes and prosecutes government corruption. A few months after the Obama White House ordered an investigation of government counterterrorism training, the Federal Bureau of...

After accusations had been made last fall, that the FBI is using inaccurate and offensive training materials, the bureau invited experts from the Army’s Combating Terrorism Center at West Point to review all of their resources and help remedy the problem. The update on the results of that review came on February 8, at a meeting between FBI Director Robert Mueller and a host of Arab and Muslim advocacy groups and religious leaders. But IPT, the Investigative Project on Terrorism, reports that some of Mueller’s guests included pro-Hamas and Hizballah groups, a few of whom had been accused of issuing...

The FBI has purged hundreds of counterterrorism training documents after a months-long review found inaccuracies and other problems in their description of Muslims. The review was triggered after a September blog in Wired magazine revealed training documents that reportedly called the Prophet Muhammad a "cult leader," claimed "devout" Muslims have been generally violent for hundreds of years and made other controversial statements. An FBI did not get into details about which documents were purged, but a law enforcement source confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday that hundreds were removed because they were deemed "not consistent with the highest professional standards...