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Following the news that five Americans had traveled from the United States to Pakistan to attend terrorist training camps, a coalition of representatives from the American-Muslim community has come out denouncing the alleged plotters. From this chorus, groups such as the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) have promised to redouble efforts at combating radicalization and to renew cooperation with law enforcement.
Indicative of these efforts, according to MPAC, is a recently released report entitled Building Bridges to Strengthen America: Forging an Effective Counterterrorism Enterprise Between Muslim Americans and Law Enforcement (MPAC Report).
The report was written to provide a "blueprint for how Muslim American communities can be an asset in securing our nation and preserving the rights of all Americans, as defined by a Muslim American perspective." Despite this laudatory mission statement, a review of the report reveals that MPAC is simply continuing to engage in the same tactics which it has always relied upon—calling for greater cooperation between the American-Muslim community and U.S. law enforcement while undermining U.S. counter-terrorism efforts.