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Anti-Islam teachings 'widespread' in US law enforcement


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Disturbing.

It's the historic parallel that really bothers me about all this. I'm an atheist (ex Catholic), but I regularly attend Yom Hashoah with friends because it's important not to repeat horrible mistakes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/11/anti-islam-teachings-us-law-enforcement
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Anti-Islam teachings 'widespread' in US law enforcement, campaigners warn

Activists point to past incidents in the FBI and NYPD after military course urged soldiers to prepare for 'total war' with Islam
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The Pentagon moved swiftly to distance itself from revelations that officers in a defense department class were taught that "Hiroshima"-style tactics would be needed to combat the threat from Islam.
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Linda Sarsour, executive director at the Arab American Association of New York, said the course is merely the latest example in a proliferation of anti-Muslim teaching materials in law-enforcement agencies. "It's part of a much larger problem," Sarsour said, pointing to similar controversies involving the FBI and the New York police department
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The influence of anti-Islamic rhetoric has also found its way into municipal police departments. The New York police department has been the subject of increasing scrutiny amid a series of reports from the Associated Press revealing the existence of the department's so-called "Demographics Unit", which has been used to map out ethnic communities. The unit focused on a list of 28 "ancestries of interest", all of which are predominantly Muslim. In the course of over two dozen articles, the AP laid out how the NYPD – with the help of CIA advisers – infiltrated mosques, Muslim community centers and local colleges.

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Oh, yeah. this is a huge problem.

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Profiling of Muslims Produced No Terror Leads, NYPD Concedes
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The AP reports that in court testimony unsealed yesterday, a New York Police Department official conceded that the Department's Demographic's Unit, which targeted Muslim citizens in mosques, stores, restaurants, and other locations, failed to produce a single investigation of a terrorism threat.

    [Thomas] Galati, [the commanding officer of the NYPD Intelligence Divisio], testified as part of a lawsuit that began in 1971 over NYPD spying on students, civil rights groups and suspected Communist sympathizers during the 1950s and 1960s. The lawsuit, known as the Handschu case, resulted in federal guidelines that prohibit the NYPD from collecting information about political speech unless it is related to potential terrorism.

    Civil rights lawyers believe the Demographics Unit violated those rules. Documents obtained by the AP show the unit conducted operations outside its jurisdiction, including in New Jersey. The FBI there said those operations damaged its partnerships with Muslims and jeopardized national security.

    In one instance discussed in the testimony, plainclothes NYPD officers known as "rakers" overheard two Pakistani men complaining about airport security policies that they believed unfairly singled out Muslims. They bemoaned what they saw as the nation's anti-Muslim sentiment since the 2001 terrorist attacks.

    Galati said police were allowed to collect that information because the men spoke Urdu, a fact that could help police find potential terrorists in the future.

    "I'm seeing Urdu. I'm seeing them identify the individuals involved in that are Pakistani," Galati explained. "I'm using that information for me to determine that this would be a kind of place that a terrorist would be comfortable in."

    He added, "Most Urdu speakers from that region would be of concern, so that's why it's important to me."

    About 15 million Pakistanis and 60 million Indians speak Urdu. Along with English, it is one of the national languages of Pakistan.

The AP investigative reporting team won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year for its expose of the spying program.
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