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As recently as January 2009, the FBI thought its agents ought to know the following crucial information about Muslims:

They engage in a "circumcision ritual"

More than 9,000 of them are in the U.S. military

Their religion "transforms [a] country’s culture into 7th Century Arabian ways."

And this was what the FBI considered "recommended reading" about Islam:

A much-criticized tome, The Arab Mind, that one reviewer called "a collection of outrageously broad — and often suspect — generalizations"

A book by one of Norwegian terrorist suspect Anders Behring Breivik’s favorite anti-Muslim authors.

All this is revealed in a PowerPoint presentation by the FBI’s Law Enforcement Communications Unit (.pdf), which trains new Bureau recruits. Among the 62 slides in the presentation, designed to teach techniques for "successful interviews/interrogations with individuals from the M.E. [Middle East]," is an instruction that the "Arabic mind" is "swayed more by words than ideas and more by ideas than facts."

The briefing presents much information that has nothing to do with crime and ev... >>>