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Disgraced Former FBI Agent John Guandolo To Travel to Phoenix Next Week

Anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist and activist John Guandolo is scheduled to聽conduct another law enforcement training in Arizona.

Guandolo will continue making his rounds on the law enforcement training circuit next week to conduct a three-day course titled, 鈥淯nderstanding and Investigating the Jihadi Network.鈥 He held similar trainings聽in Phoenix and Tucson back in March.

Guandolo has revealed very little about the training, choosing not to publicize the location of the course or details about which members of law enforcement will be attending. Just today, a聽course Guandolo planned to host on June 3 at Cedar Valley College in Lancaster, Texas, titled聽鈥淯nderstanding the Jihad Threat to America,鈥 .听

In 2014, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery Guandolo to Phoenix, which caused a major stir, especially because of the city's history of racial profiling, particularly of Latinos.

Montgomery has a history of associating with anti-immigrant Minutemen, including Chris Simcox, the former Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) leader who is currently on trail for child molestation. Montgomery has spoken at an MCDC event and participated in one of Simcox鈥檚 border watches.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a close friend of the nativist movement, was聽 by a federal judge for his repeated attempts to cover up racial profiling offenses, most notably during traffic stops. It is unclear if Montgomery鈥檚 office invited Guandolo. A Hatewatch email to the office received no response.

Guandolo has a long track record of anti-Muslim bigotry, so it鈥檚 not hard to imagine what the focus聽of the 鈥渢raining鈥 will be. Earlier this year he told the extremist news site World Net Daily:听

鈥淪ince we know most of the mosques in America teach this same material as well, we should be aware that someday soon, many thousands of Muslims will wage war against the United States and its people just like they teach they should. To believe otherwise would be foolish.鈥

Guandolo once claimed Muslims 鈥渄o not have a First Amendment right to do anything.鈥

Since he for a number of ethical breaches and bizarre conduct, Guandolo has devoted himself to a rabid brand of anti-Muslim activism, working closely with some of the most powerful and influential anti-Muslim groups in the U.S., while accusing various聽government officials of having ties to terrorist organizations.

In his spare time, Guandolo works closely with the anti-Muslim hate group ACT! for America, the largest grassroots anti-Muslim group in the country. He helped the group build 鈥淭he Thin Blue Line Project,鈥 billed as a 鈥渙ne-stop internet resource for information concerning the perceived threat of Muslim infiltration and terrorism in the country.鈥

Its key component is a 鈥淩adicalization Map Locator,鈥 listing the addresses of every Muslim Student Association (MSA) in the country as well as a number of mosques and Islamic institutions鈥攁ll listed as suspected national security concerns. Just this year, Guandolo told a crowd in South Carolina that the sole purpose of MSA鈥檚 is to 鈥渞ecruit jihadis鈥濃攎any in the anti-Muslim movement claim MSA鈥檚 are a front for the Muslim Brotherhood.听

There are others on the anti-Muslim right who Guandolo enjoys close relationships with as well, including Frank Gaffney, head of the anti-Muslim hate group Center for Security Policy聽(CSP). Earlier in 2015, Gaffney invited Guandolo to speak about radical Islam at a National Security Action Summit in South Carolina.听In 2007, CSP awarded Guandolo its 鈥淒efenders of the Home Front鈥 award.

Focus on Phoenix

Phoenix is one of many hotbeds of anti-Muslim activity and organizing in the U.S. In late May of 2015, anti-government and聽anti-Muslim activist Jon Ritzheimer held a Prophet Muhammad cartoon聽drawing contest in front of a Phoenix mosque, where he sold t-shirts that read 鈥淔--- 滨蝉濒补尘.鈥聽Ritzheimer聽encouraged聽supporters to show up armed and about 250 鈥" did. They were met by an equal number of counter-protesters 鈥渄efending the faith.鈥

Other recent anti-Muslim incidents in the Phoenix area the hacking of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix鈥檚 website where the message 鈥淰ive le France鈥 聽was left鈥攑resumably in response to the recent terror attacks in France鈥攁nd the vandalization of a local mosque on December 12, 2015.

With Maricopa County鈥檚 ugly history of racial profiling by law enforcement, coupled with a spike in anti-Muslim rhetoric and activity in Arizona, officers and their supervisors would do well to turn their back on Guandolo next week.

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