Official: Anti-Islamic police training class inappropriate
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New Jersey officials say it was inappropriate for a county police academy to have a self-described former Muslim terrorist speak at a class called "Know Your Enemy."
The state will hand out new police training guidelines to New Jersey's 21 county prosecutors, Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for Acting Attorney General John Hoffman, told the Asbury Park Press on Wednesday.
"The private training program that took place in Ocean County last week clearly was not appropriate training and is not the type of training we want our police officers attending," Aseltine said.
Walid Shoebat, a Palestinian-American, discussed his views on Islam during a counterterrorism seminar held Nov. 2. Shoebat told the officers they should actively watch Muslims in their communities and suggested they be suspicious of Muslims taking martial arts classes, which he said could be an indication that they're training to become terrorists.
