Right-wing anti-Muslim propaganda is screened to police as official training

Evidence

The logic of these new McCarthyites is that there are no “good Muslims” and that Muslim organizations, despite their stated intentions, are really front groups for the Muslim Brotherhood or the Wahhabis, who intend to attack Jews and Christians. While this rhetoric is extreme and represents the conspiracy theories of right-wing racists, they are just one step removed from the FBI and New York Police Department “radicalization” theories discussed in Chapter 6. The propaganda video The Third Jihad, which was shown to New York City police officers as part of their training, demonstrates this overlap between the new McCarthyites and the security establishment. The list of interviewees for this pseudodocumentary included not just right-wing Islamophobes but also figures such as New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former CIA director James Woolsey, former head of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, and Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 695

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s thesis that ‘enemy-making’ is a single coupled system — the McCarthyite fringe and the security establishment are one step apart, sharing the same frame. — connects to: A pseudodocumentary claiming Muslims seek global domination was used as police training material. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 683; Anti-Muslim training films frame Muslim moderation claims as deception — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 32; Institutionalized anti-Muslim ideology corrupts official counterterrorism training — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 31 (+6 more)
• SEED: Strong case for an essay on how the machine converts think-tank propaganda into police-trained ‘truth’ — the pipeline from pseudo-documentary to badge.

Broader Connections

• Islamophobic documentary films were integrated directly into NYPD officer training #exemplifies (0.90)
• Institutionalized anti-Muslim ideology corrupts official counterterrorism training #corroborates (0.88) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 31
• Anti-Muslim training films frame Muslim moderation claims as deception #expands (0.85) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 32
• Police training promoted a clash-of-civilizations doctrine labeling Islam intrinsically violent #expands (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 924
• Law enforcement agencies operationalize the ideology that Islam is inherently violent #corroborates (0.82)
• Official rhetoric framing Islam as ideology licensed anti-Muslim suspicion #expands (0.82) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 864
• Islamophobia within the Christian Right extended into law enforcement counterterrorism circles. #expands (0.80) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 537
• Right-wing activists weaponized Muslim identity as proof of anti-Americanism in 2008 #exemplifies (0.72)