John Guandolo — a disgraced ex-FBI agent turned anti-Muslim activist — will be in Rapides Parish, Louisiana next week, to train law enforcement. Guandolo, who runs a “strategic and operational training & consulting” group named Understanding the Threat, travels the country ostensibly teaching LEOs at every level of government how to seek out terrorist cells in their area. Guandolo’s trainings instead serve as anti-Muslim witch-hunts, often times targeting and vilifying local Muslim leaders. 

The election of Donald Trump, his subsequent appointments of hardline nativists and his xenophobic executive orders have buoyed anti-immigrant groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). 

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The Levite Jewish Community Center of Birmingham, Alabama’s mission is to “provide a welcoming, family-oriented gathering place for a diverse membership to engage in meaningful experiences of the mind, body and soul.” But they have been prevented from accomplishing this on three separate occasions since the year began. Days typically filled with children’s activities and fitness were spent evacuating the premises while law enforcement and their K9s searched for a bomb after a threat was phoned in.