under surveillance as part of a terrorism investigation.
“This is precisely why Fairfax PD needs our training,” Leitner says. “They need to learn about Fifth Column activities and penetrating agents.” 5 Sadly, he says, the chief appears more concerned with protecting the force from charges of “Islamophobia” than Islamist penetration.
“Let us choose tolerance over intolerance, acceptance over prejudice, and understanding over ignorance,” Rohrer intoned at CAIR’s banquet, which raised more than $600,000 and only made the job of his detectives that much harder.
Such funds aren’t used just to raise “cultural awareness,” as CAIR would have the public believe. They’re also used to raise the banner of jihad overseas, while blocking counterterrorism training and investigations at home. The chief unwittingly helped the bad guys stay in business while denying his squad valuable training.
And contrary to CAIR’s bellyaching, the Higgins Center did not teach anti-Islamic propaganda, insists the high-ranking FCPD official, who wished to go unnamed. The instructors keyed in on the militant part of Islam that’s promoting terrorism and never bashed the faith or Muslims in general.
“They came in and talked truth,” he says, noting that the human resources office had approved the course content. “They didn’t follow some PC check-off list.”
CAIR simply had an ax to grind, he says. The police department has actively worked cases against CAIR, including the investigation of former CAIR official Randall Ismail Royer, now serving twenty years in prison on terrorism-related charges.
The official says the Higgins Center’s instruction in counterterror methods, which began in 2003, was valuable to patrol officers and detectives.
“If the Fairfax County police can’t hear this,” he says, “we are diminishing our ability to be effective in this particular environment.”
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Leitner points out that one Muslim cop who complained about the training felt compelled to defend Islam’s peaceful and tolerant nature. But in doing so, ironically, he quoted a notorious Islamic extremist. He says the unidentified officer praised Maulana Maududi, the late violent Pakistani radical who preached that Islam will destroy the West.
“The objective of Islamic jihad is to put an end to the dominance of the un-Islamic systems of government and replace them with Islamic rule,” wrote Maududi, founder of Pakistan’s religious party Jamaat e-Islami.
“A time will come when capitalistic democracy will tremble for its safety in Washington and New York,” he ominously warned before the 9/11 attacks on those cities.
CAIR actually uses works by Maududi for internal training, and recommends his books as “sources of dawah training material,” according to a document found at its headquarters. 6 Dawah is the Muslim mission to convert others to Islam (others such as Royer, unfortunately).
The other Muslim officer who worked with CAIR to kill the Higgins Center training course happens to be from Pakistan. His name is Sergeant Naveed I. Butt, and he was Rasool’s partner on the inside. In fact, it was Butt who conducted the original employee background investigation of Rasool, who was easily hired on his recommendation. 7 Essentially, a Muslim spy for the enemy was vetted by another Muslim, who as it turns out is equally suspect.
While Rasool is gone, Butt remains on the force. The son of a Pakistani government diplomat, he’s also deeply embedded with CAIR, the department official says, and openly brags about his contacts with the group.
CAIR’s guest register shows Butt traveled with Rasool to CAIR’s headquarters at least twice to meet with officials there, once in 2007 and again in 2008. 8
Also, Butt arranged a critical meeting between CAIR and the director of FCPD’s criminal justice academy. The powwow took place the year before the academy canceled the Higgins
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