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New York Muslim Leaders Openly Teaching Muslims How To Thwart Terror Investigations



Nov 14, 2011 3 Comments ›› Angelia

NEW YORK (AP) – After a decade of the police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to the police with their concerns about terrorism, a campaign that is certain to further strain relations between the two groups.

Muslim community leaders are openly teaching people how to identify police informants, encouraging them to always talk to a lawyer before speaking with the authorities and reminding people already working with law enforcement that they have the right to change their minds.

The outreach campaign follows an Associated Press investigation that revealed the NYPD had dispatched plainclothes officers to eavesdrop in Muslim communities in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, often without any evidence of wrongdoing. Restaurants serving Muslims were identified and photographed.

Hundreds of mosques were investigated, and dozens were infiltrated. Police used the information to build ethnic databases on daily life inside Muslim neighborhoods. Many of these programs were developed with the help of the CIA.

At a recent “Know Your Rights” session for Brooklyn College students, someone asked why Muslims who don’t have anything to hide should avoid talking to police.

“Most of the time it’s a fishing expedition,” answered Ramzi Kassem, a law professor at the City University of New York. “So the safest thing you can do for yourself, your family and for your community, is not to answer.”

New York Republican Rep. Peter King said this kind of reaction from the Muslim community is “disgraceful.”


  • Anonymous

    “At the [CAIR] meeting, students were warned not to speak with police even if their parents, imams or Muslim clerics urge them to cooperate.”

    “Stay away from these people. That’s one of the most powerful things you can do,” said Robin Leavitt, a member of an advocacy organization Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility.

    The actions of these un-American, terrorist sympathizer organizations are beyond despicable. Encouraging an already insular and assimilation adverse group to actively avoid the police in cases like robbery, domestic violence and sexual assaults insures that the potential for such crimes will rise as the apprehension of perpetrators declines. 

    Like it or not, “radical” islam was responsible for 9/11 and is still the leading promoter of terrorism around the world. Only a Pollyanna fool would fail to understand this. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. You’re damn right we’re gonna keep an eye on you. 

    I’ll bet there are plenty of other countries where these folks can live if they find our wholly justifiable concerns about them, and the security of this country to be “unfair”.

  • Anonymous

    “At the [CAIR] meeting, students were warned not to speak with police even if their parents, imams or Muslim clerics urge them to cooperate.”

    “Stay away from these people. That’s one of the most powerful things you can do,” said Robin Leavitt, a member of an advocacy organization Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility.

    The actions of these un-American, terrorist sympathizer organizations are beyond despicable. Encouraging an already insular and assimilation adverse group to actively avoid the police in cases like robbery, domestic violence and sexual assaults insures that the potential for such crimes will rise as the apprehension of perpetrators declines. 

    Like it or not, “radical” islam was responsible for 9/11 and is still the leading promoter of terrorism around the world. Only a Pollyanna fool would fail to understand this. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. You’re damn right we’re gonna keep an eye on you. 

    I’ll bet there are plenty of other countries where these folks can live if they find our wholly justifiable concerns about them, and the security of this country to be “unfair”.

  • Anonymous

    “At the [CAIR] meeting, students were warned not to speak with police even if their parents, imams or Muslim clerics urge them to cooperate.”

    “Stay away from these people. That’s one of the most powerful things you can do,” said Robin Leavitt, a member of an advocacy organization Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility.

    The actions of these un-American, terrorist sympathizer organizations are beyond despicable. Encouraging an already insular and assimilation adverse group to actively avoid the police in cases like robbery, domestic violence and sexual assaults insures that the potential for such crimes will rise as the apprehension of perpetrators declines. 

    Like it or not, “radical” islam was responsible for 9/11 and is still the leading promoter of terrorism around the world. Only a Pollyanna fool would fail to understand this. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. You’re damn right we’re gonna keep an eye on you. 

    I’ll bet there are plenty of other countries where these folks can live if they find our wholly justifiable concerns about them, and the security of this country to be “unfair”.