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Bores, a former Woodstock, Georgia police chief, will lead the eight-hour , which is open to local law enforcement as well as the public. Bores is advertised as being a certified instructor with the Georgia Peace Officer Standards Training (P.O.S.T.) Council. He also serves on other law enforcement agency boards and is currently listed as the director of intelligence at The Defender Group, LLC, an Atlanta-based, for-hire armed security group. However, as a self-styled expert on Islam, Bores鈥� seminars are based in anti-Muslim rhetoric and conspiracy theories.

Concerns about the upcoming course and Bores being booked in an official capacity to train law enforcement were first raised by the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). More so, as a P.O.S.T.-certified instructor, officers who attend Bores鈥� courses are eligible to receive credit.

Edward Ahmed Mitchell, executive director of CAIR Georgia, told Hatewatch Bores鈥� lack of academic training in Islam and penchant for promoting dangerous speech 鈥渄iscredits him from training law enforcement.鈥� He added that whether it was intentional or not, the Barrow County Sheriff Office is essentially 鈥渓egitimizing anti-Muslim bigotry鈥� by hosting Bores.

鈥淟aw enforcement officers must learn to protect and serve all Georgians and people of all faiths,鈥� Mitchell said.

Mitchell鈥檚 organization a 19-page report on Bores and his egregious rhetoric. The CAIR chapter also a letter to Ken Vance, executive director of Georgia鈥檚 P.O.S.T. Council, seeking clarification on Bores鈥� qualifications to teach a state-approved course on Islam. In addition to law enforcement trainings, Bores is also regularly invited to speak at conservative events in and around Georgia.

Despite concerns about Bores, Sheriff Jud Smith has doubled down on the training. Smith told Hatewatch he attended one of Bores鈥� courses earlier this year and noted that he claims he is not about talking about all Muslims.

鈥淗e鈥檚 not saying that every Muslim and everybody that practices Islam is a violent person and they want to take over the world and they want to enact sharia and take over the country,鈥� he told Hatewatch.

When asked about various quotes Bores has said over the years, such as conflating Islam with pedophilia, Smith admitted they were 鈥減olarizing鈥� but said, 鈥淚 can鈥檛 control what that man said.鈥�

鈥淗is opinion is his opinion,鈥� he added.

Footage of Bores鈥� speeches indicates he does include such a caveat. However, he seemingly does very little to differentiate between the two. Instead, he frames the religion of Islam as being the driving force behind violence and subversion. During a 2012 hosted by the Rockdale County Young Republicans, Bores began his speech by stating, 鈥淲e鈥檙e here to talk about another bad topic: Islam.鈥� Later in that speech, he lamented that the 鈥淔irst Amendment shelters all of Islam and it should not."

This rhetoric appears to be prevalent in his law enforcement trainings as well. In the of a 2013 training Bores gave to the Dawson County Sheriff's Office, he wrote law enforcement is in a 鈥渦niquely difficult situation鈥� when dealing with Muslims 鈥渂ecause Islam is a widely recognized and practiced religion, many believe we must automatically grant to it all the rights and privileges offered to other expressions of worship, lest we be accused of being politically incorrect, of being intolerant of multi-cultural beliefs, or worse, of being labeled Islamophobic.鈥�

The course also promised to give officers the knowledge of how to 鈥渆ffectively deal with the various Islamic threats to subvert our Constitution.鈥�

Smith was adamant to tell Hatewatch that his department has hosted trainings on various extremist groups. He said his deputies have received training on groups ranging from outlaw motorcycle gangs to neo-Nazis to the Black Panther party.

But during a March 5 , Mitchell said it was not the topic of Muslim extremists that is the issue but rather Bores鈥� anti-Islam bias and lack of formal education on Islamic theology.

鈥淚t is perfectly okay to receive training related with any sort of extremist group, that is fine,鈥� Mitchell stated. 鈥淏ut the training has to be by someone educated, by someone non-bias, by someone who is not a bigot.鈥�

One of the topics Bores鈥� upcoming course will cover is 鈥渢he Grand Jihad to eliminate America by terrorist acts and subversive acts under the Muslim Brotherhood.鈥� Asserting that Muslims are actively striving to other throw the U.S. by stealthy means is conspiracy theory among the anti-Muslim movement in America.

Bores has associated with national anti-Muslim groups known for propagating such conspiracy theories.

In 2015, Bores at a 鈥渘ational security鈥� event in South Carolina sponsored by the anti-Muslim hate group Center for Security Policy (CSP). During the event, he told the crowd mosques in America are "far more than houses of worship" and to 鈥渢hink of them as a local national guard armory鈥� and "incubators for jihad."

Frank Gaffney, CSP鈥檚 founder and president who was moderating the event, told the crowd he found it 鈥渧ery inspiring" to know that Bores is out there training law enforcement.

During the event, Bores shared the stage with disgraced former FBI agent turned anti-Muslim conspiracist John Guandolo, who runs the hate group Understanding the Threat. Guandolo is another anti-Muslim figure who regularly trains law enforcement across the country.

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