According to several law enforcement officials who attended an August 2016 lecture by Sebastian Gorka on Islam and Muslims, FBI agents who were present were disturbed to hear a racist diatribe from Gorka against Muslims during what was supposed to be a counterterrorism presentation. Gorka apparently told attendees at the Joint Terrorism Operations Course—an introductory-level class for participants in the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)—that “all Muslims adhere to Sharia law” and that, furthermore, law enforcement officials should be aware that there is “no such thing as ‘mainstream Muslims.’”

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QUESTION: Did this 2016 training incident have any professional consequences for Gorka or lead to internal FBI complaints?

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 293