Islam-bashing bigots train US counterterrorism agents

PRA report

“Kill them…including the children.”

That’s how to solve the threat of militant Muslims?

This quote is from what one official involved in homeland security said was the theme of a speech by Walid Shoebat at an anti-terrorism training in Las Vegas in October 2010.

Our source had turned around after Shoebat’s speech and asked the woman in the chair behind them at the conference what she thought was the solution offered by Shoebat. “Kill them…including the children…you heard him,” was the full response.

Shoebat’s Las Vegas speech was described by our source as “frightening.”

Chip Berlet reveals some of the findings in a forthcoming report from Political Research Associates, Right-Wing Firms Train Public Servants on Terror Threats.

Huffington Post, 20 December 2010

See also “CAIR asks DOJ to review use of Muslim-bashers as terror trainers”, CAIR press release, 20 December 2010

Update:  See “WaPo Notes ‘self-described experts’ advising law enforcement on Islam”, Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion, 21 December 2010

Further update:  See Chip Berlet, “Three anti-Islamic security and training companies”, Huffington Post, 22 December 2010