FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’

...excerpts from dozens of pages of recent FBI training material on Islam that Danger Room has acquired...[portray] the Constitutionally protected religious faith of millions of Americans...as an indicator of terrorist activity....The FBI isn't just treading on thin legal ice by portraying ordinary, observant Americans as terrorists-in-waiting, former counterterrorism agents say. It's also playing into al-Qaida's hands.Focusing on the religious behavior of American citizens instead of proven indicators of criminal activity like stockpiling guns or using shady financing makes it more likely that the FBI will miss the real warning signs of terrorism.