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NYPD Should Be Investigated For Spying On Muslims, Rights Group Urge

Posted: 20/03/2012 17:35 Updated: 20/03/2012 17:36

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A leading human rights organisation has called for the US attorney general to investigate claims that New York Police are spying on Muslim communities.

In a letter to America's attorney general Eric Holder, Human Rights Watch said New York's police should be investigated over their "alleged religion-based discrimination."

Andrea Prasow, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch claimed the police had "engaged in a pattern of surveillance of mosques and Muslim student groups" despite there being no suspicion of criminal activity.

“Since New York’s mayor and the state attorney general won’t act, the Justice Department needs to step in and properly investigate these allegations of discrimination,” Prasow said.

The New York-based organisation point to several reports from the Associated Press which detail "the NYPD’s surveillance and intelligence-gathering efforts in Muslim communities from 2006-2008 that were carried out solely on their religious or ethnic profile and not on suspicion of criminal activity."

In the letter Alison Parker, Director of the US Program at Human Rights Watch says "the surveillance and intelligence-gathering by the NYPD have violated the rights of American citizens and residents."

"We urge you to conduct an investigation into these allegations immediately, and to make the findings public," she adds.

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Steven Libby
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11:51 AM on 03/25/2012
Labeling the NYPD's efforts as "spying" is a ruse, a charge made by those who would try to stop legitimate intelligence gathering. Intelligence gathering that is being done to, hopefully, prevent further terrorist attacks. Does it conflict with our traditional dislike of profiling? Yes it does. But times
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Steven Libby
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12:31 PM on 03/25/2012
Accidentally hit the Post Comment button too soon. Times have changed. NYPD has learned from the terrorism that city has experienced, going all the way back to 1993 with the 1st WTC bombing. They've learned how best to PREVENT terrorism. Consider this excerpt from the book Son Of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef. Mosab is the son of one of the founders of Hamas, but was successfully recruited by Israel's Shin Bet. Page 174. "I sat with the rest of the world watching again and again the reports of the Twin Towers collapsing....In the weeks to follow, the Shin Bet began searching for lessons to be found in the rubble of...9/11. Why had the U.S. intelligence services not been able to prevent the disaster? For one thing, they operated independently and competitively. For another, they relied mostly on technology and rarely collaborated with terrorists. Those tactics may have been fine in the Cold War, but it's pretty tough to combat fanatical ideals with technology. Israeli intelligence, on the other hand, relied mostly on human resources; had countless spies in mosques, Islamic organizations, and leadership roles; and had no problem recruiting even the most dangerous terrorists. They knew they had to have eyes and ears on the inside, along with minds that understood motives and emotions and that could connect the dots. America understood neither Islamic culture nor its ideology. That, combined with open borders and lax security, made it a much softer target than Israel."
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jessie66
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10:57 PM on 03/20/2012
We must never upset the Muslims afterall one day soon they will rule the world! Maybe, just maybe, if people wake up and smell the coffee they can be stopped, but sadly no one will wake up! Hubdreds of pubs are shutting in the UK on a daily basis, the majority being turned into Muslim owned curry houses (long gone are the days when we had truly Indian curry houses, if not a curry house then a mosque or islamic centre. Everytinme you buy from a Muslim who are paying an extra tax which funds extremism. Just remember thant when you are next in a curry/kebab house!!
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tyruler
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02:33 AM on 03/23/2012
Right. Curry house terror.

Go back to the pub, obviously you've been drinking too much!

I rather have a curry house than a pub in my neighborhood anyday.
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whenicyouucme
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08:06 PM on 03/23/2012
I think you have common sense. Congrats. What good comes out of the liquor stores/pubs/bars on every corner? Drunk drivers, public urination and fighting. I think the point dip s*** was attempting to make was obvious. Boy cot all Muslim's I am sure he think's Muslim's should all be publically beheaded once and for all.
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whenicyouucme
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08:05 PM on 03/23/2012
lol did you really just type that? Muslim's are ruling the world. In reality Muslim countries hold majority of the oil. Oil is king right now. It should be the West kissing Muslim bum not the other way around. Unfortunately the 1.6 billion muslim's are too weak to stand up to the Jewish/Christian rulers.
DO you think the Iraq's that were pissed on at Abu Gharib by British and American soilders, or the Afghani dead bodies that were just urinated all over feel they're ruling the world? If this is the global system you're preaching seriously shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
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dsole1948
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08:54 PM on 03/20/2012
The first step to integration is schooling it’s the young that will move away from the valance of their fathers and the blind hatred of their preachers, religion is not a belief in any god when used as a tool of destruction. So first we must close all faith and religious schools, schools no matter how they are financed must be for learning not for religious doctrine, what i see of religious schools teaching methods amount to nothing more than child abuse.

Those engaged in attacks on the established society for whatever reason will involve the innocents from their own family and environment, that family and those from that environment must know they will be subject to scrutiny. Unfortunately unless that family recognise the damage done by those that attack others they will become victims of those attackers, at this point in time where as its true not all Muslims are terrorist. It’s also true that those who lay bombs to kill maim and disfigure women and children mothers and daughter’s son and father brothers and sisters of Muslims and all other faiths are themselves Muslims.
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scouse55
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09:49 PM on 03/20/2012
Exactly!
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tyruler
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02:38 AM on 03/23/2012
" It’s also true that those who lay bombs to kill maim and disfigure women and children mothers and daughter’s son and father brothers and sisters of Muslims and all other faiths are themselves Muslims."

Not true. The US invasion of the bloodshed in Iraq killed far more Muslims than the Muslims who kill in terrorist-related attack. While on the subject of terror, I would urge you to open your eyes to the white, non-Muslim terrorist attacks on Muslims/non-Muslims in Norway (Anders Breivik killing over 60 kids in addition to blowing up Oslo) and the recent burning down of a mosque in Belgium (killing the imam). Go look it up. But of course that doesn't get teh sensationalist news narrative as the Muslim attacks like the al-Qaeda one in France.
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whenicyouucme
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08:09 PM on 03/23/2012
I truly thank you for not being bias. I am a Muslim revert, living in America and even I was not aware of a terrorist attack in Norway. I really appreciate your post.
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lenuk
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08:26 PM on 03/20/2012
"...Human Rights Watch claimed the police had "engaged in a pattern of surveillance of mosques and Muslim student groups"..."

Sounds like a plan to me ...
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scouse55
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09:50 PM on 03/20/2012
Considering the damage already done by Muslim fanatics to all around, wherever they set foot, I think whatever is done to survey and curtail is a darn good plan.
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Blindstu
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07:12 PM on 03/20/2012
They can hardly blame the NYPD after the terrorist track record Muslims have.
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tyruler
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02:44 AM on 03/23/2012
Out of 1/4 people on Earth who are Muslim, I think Americans have a higher rate of violence and murder track record than Muslims do.
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Blindstu
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07:09 PM on 03/25/2012
Think again.......I said "Terrorist Track Record"
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wakyracir
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06:51 PM on 03/20/2012
This type of situation is arising with increasing frequency throughout the world - not just in the USA. If Muslim communities were serious about distancing themselves from terrorists they would simply let the police just get on with their job. It's a non-sequiteur that Muslim terrorists are Muslims with ties to those communities, and it's ridiculous to suggest that effort should be wasted elsewhere. Innocent people of all faiths and races need to be protected against this evil, and if the police and others involved in providing that protection need exemption from some legislation to do that effectively, then that's what needs to happen.
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scouse55
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06:49 PM on 03/20/2012
If Muslims refuse, as they seem to, to come to terms with living in OUR society, preferring to retain a similitude of their religiously biased previous place of residence, then one can only surmise, as apparently these civic authorities do, that they are hostile alien incomers, and as such it becomes necessary for them to be surveyed and observed by any legitimate means available.

If they don't like it, they have one of two options, either return from where they came, or comply with the society in which they have ensconced themselves. If this means discarding much of their alien religiously biased culture in order to fit in, that must be the price they will have to pay to integrate.
No one is chaining them to the place they are now resident in. They are free to leave or stay, under the same conditions we are all subjected to.
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Joe Lanzafame
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07:39 PM on 03/20/2012
If you simply replace "muslim" in your statement with the words "Jewish people", I think you might recognize the inherent problem with your thesis.

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, you might also try replacing "Muslims" with "Irish-American".
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scouse55
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09:59 PM on 03/20/2012
I omitted to say, in response to yours, Jews and Irish, and all others strive to integrate, almost as soon as they enter their new country and adoptive society. Muslims do not.

If they may do so, it will only be after many generations have passed. here in the UK we have Muslims entering the fourth generation since multiple immigration, yet only yesterday a poll of young Muslims expressed the desire to keep the so called 'honour system' that effectively destroys any likelihood of full integration.
They know how that element of Islam is abhorred in the west,opt to ensure it is retained.

So much for integration.
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mfa11e
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10:14 PM on 03/20/2012
Cant remember the last time I read of a jewish or Irish suicide bomber
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vindi boy
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06:25 PM on 03/20/2012
You can't blame them,after the twin tower episode.
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Joe Lanzafame
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07:39 PM on 03/20/2012
Which was not perpetrated by any Muslim-Americans
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joda51
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07:42 PM on 03/20/2012
no....but muslims still the same...end of/
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tyruler
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02:54 AM on 03/23/2012
Excellent reply.
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joda51
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07:41 PM on 03/20/2012
i agree with you my friend..and gravesend boys were better trained
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lawblynn
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06:12 PM on 03/20/2012
The whole world is getting sick and tired of Muslims claiming to be victims. If I recall correctly wasn't it Muslims the crashed planes into the World Trade Centre and blow up innocent people on the London Underground. Muslims should do the world a favour and exercise silence.
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Joe Lanzafame
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07:42 PM on 03/20/2012
And if a black man kills a white man, is it "Black Men" that committed the crime or simply that one man? Perhaps a peace-loving, Muslim-American who is raising his family and minding his own business would prefer to NOT be lumped together with the terrorists of 9/11.

Or would you prefer to be lumped together with Timothy McVeigh? After all, he was one of US!
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lawblynn
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07:55 PM on 03/20/2012
Let the world know when you find a peace-loving Muslim. Living here in West Yorks I have yet to find one. Millions of pounds worth of damage has been caused to the streets of Bradford by your so-called peace lovers, and try reading the local papers to understand why these peace lovers are abusing young girls from 11 years of age upwards and using them as sex slaves. Wake up, smell the coffee, and stop defending the indefensable.
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