Former CIA directors shared conference stages with anti-Muslim extremists

Evidence

For instance, CI CENTRE’s 2010 “Spy Cruise,” an intelligence-themed conference held on a cruise ship, listed former CIA directors Porter Goss and Michael Hayden as speakers. (Goss’s speech had the telling title “Radical Fundamentalism and [Judeo-Christian] Western Civilization are Irreconcilable.”) When the FBI uses the work of Robert Spencer and the Orientalist Raphael Patai in its trainings, it does so because that work fits with their existing ideological framework, or to be precise with the views of the conservative section of the FBI and the security apparatus. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 695

Categorization

• XREF: The Goss speech title and FBI use of Spencer/Patai corroborate the vault claim that Islamophobia is encoded within the state security apparatus, not merely society. — connects to: Extremist Islamophobes are mainstreamed as law-enforcement educators and conference speakers — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 694; Anti-Muslim activists are networked insiders of the US security establishment — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 720; Anti-Muslim propaganda videos drew mainstream security officials as participants (+1 more)
• CANDY: A ‘Spy Cruise’ intelligence conference with ex-CIA directors literally sailing with Islamophobic extremists is an elevator-conversation anecdote.

Broader Connections

• Anti-Muslim activists are networked insiders of the US security establishment #corroborates (0.88) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 720
• Extremist Islamophobes are mainstreamed as law-enforcement educators and conference speakers #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 694
• Anti-Muslim extremists function as within-establishment security educators, not fringe outsiders #corroborates (0.82)
• Anti-Muslim propaganda videos drew mainstream security officials as participants #corroborates (0.75)