Richard Bartholomew has been following reports of poor quality counter-terrorism training at the FBI. The chief name is William Gawthrop, who led one of the worst examples. Some of Gawthrop’s wisdom:

At the Bureau’s training ground in Quantico, Virginia, agents are shown a chart contending that the more “devout” a Muslim, the more likely he is to be “violent.” Those destructive tendencies cannot be reversed, an FBI instructional presentation adds: “Any war against non-believers is justified” under Muslim law; a “moderating process cannot happen if the Koran continues to be regarded as the unalterable word of Allah.”

…What’s more, the Islamic “insurgency” is all-encompassing and insidious. In addition to outright combat, its “techniques” include “immigration” and “law suits.” So if a Muslim wishes to become an American or sues the FBI for harassment, it’s all just part of the jihad.

Andrew Gelman found this graph from the training:

Gelman points out probably the most ridiculous part:

I assume the line labeled “Bible” is referring to Christians? I’m sort of amazed to see pious and devout Christians listed as being maximally violent at the beginning. Huh? I thought Christ was supposed to be a nonviolent, mellow dude. The line starts at 3 B.C., implying that baby Jesus was at the extreme of violence.

They say this baby Jesus is one bad motherf- SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

It’s all too much for Fred Clark:

Just for fun, think about the violence and constant warring within Christianity six centuries ago. This was a time when Christian nations and competing Christian popes were waging total war against one another. The closest thing to a peace plan anyone in Christendom had at the time was to organize crusades against the infidels just to give the devout and pious Christian knights something to do besides plunder and pillage their own kingdoms. The most violent extremist fringe of any religion in the contemporary world can’t even begin to rival the warlike brutality that defined Christianity 600 years ago, and for centuries before and after that time. Yet that half-millennium of constant, brutal war and atrocity is shown on the ridiculous graph above as a linear progression toward nonviolence.