Article 2GT2Q Internal Islamophobia and racism are costing the FBI its vital, tiny cohort of Muslim and Arab agents

Internal Islamophobia and racism are costing the FBI its vital, tiny cohort of Muslim and Arab agents

by
Cory Doctorow
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FBI agents have described the 83% white Bureau as "Trumpland," where conspiracy theories about Sharia law takeovers of America are taken seriously; the far-right, racist nature of so many agents has resulted in the loss, firing, and purging of many of the Bureau's tiny, dwindling minority of Arab and Muslim agents, who have been identified as crucial to the Bureau's counterterrorism mission. (more")

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