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Tag Archives: NYPD
Targeted and entrapped: Why Ahmed Ferhani is a symbol of the NYPD’s abuses
Ahmed Ferhani, a 27-year-old Algerian immigrant, pled guilty to charges of terrorism. He will likely get 10 years in prison. But his case raised questions about how the New York Police Department treats terrorism cases, with lawyers charging that Ferhani was targeted and entrapped by an undercover agent who spent years looking for potential Muslim extremists in New York City.
Police informant who ‘crawled mosques’ looking for inflammatory rhetoric speaks out, denounces NYPD
Shamiur Rahman, an informant who is a 19-year-old Bengali-American, has denounced his former work and says the New York Police Department (NYPD) instructed him to “bait” Muslims in New York into talking about terrorism.
In leaked e-mail exchange, FBI official says NYPD intelligence activities are ‘felonious’
A high-level FBI official blasted the NYPD’s intelligence division as engaging in ‘felonious activity’ that ‘violates’ US citizens’ rights. The message, reported on by Truthout, was part of a trove of 5 million emails that the hacker group Anonymous obtained.
Official rationale for NYPD spying falls apart with report that ‘no leads’ came from spying on Muslims
The New York Police Department’s rationale for its widespread surveillance of innocent Muslims falls apart with an Associated Press article that reports that the surveillance ‘never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation.’
Lawyer’s verdict on NYPD surveillance of Muslims: unconstitutional
An official verdict has yet to be issued on the constitutionality of the NYPD’s widespread surveillance program of Muslims. But one NY-based lawyer, writing in The National Law Journal, proclaims it unconstitutional.
New Jersey police were complicit in NYPD spying on Muslim communities
In the past few months, concrete proof of New Jersey state police’s complicity with the NYPD spying effort on Muslim communities has emerged.
Posted in US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged American Arab Forum, Aref Assaf, Islamophobia, Mohammad Qatanani, New Jersey, NYPD
14 Comments
Muslim civil rights groups boycott NYPD’s Ramadan conference
Last July, some 400 Muslim New Yorkers gathered at the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) annual “pre-Ramadan conference” at police headquarters. Mohamed Shamsi Ali, the imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, delivered prayers while Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the audience that “New York is a city built on religious tolerance.” This year, the scene was different. In the wake of the New York Police Department’s spy scandal, a coalition of Muslim groups in New York announced a boycott of this morning’s Ramadan conference.
Posted in Activism, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged CAIR, Islamophobia, Mayor Bloomberg, NYPD, Ray Kelly
8 Comments
Author Deepa Kumar on the imperial roots of anti-Muslim sentiment
As part of our summer fundraiser we are very excited to offer the book “Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire” as a thank you gift. Alex Kane sits down with author Deepa Kumar to discuss “liberal Islamophobia,” Obama’s wars, the anti-mosque movement and the long history of anti-Muslim sentiment.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged Barack Obama, Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia, John McCain, NYPD, Park 51
166 Comments
City Council bill introduced to rein in ‘out of control’ NYPD abuses
Controversy over ‘stop and frisk’ and the surveillance of Muslim communities has led to a bill that would create independent oversight of the NYPD.
Posted in Activism, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged Brad Lander, DRUM, Islamophobia, Jumaane Williams, NYPD
4 Comments
‘If I pray in public, I feel uncomfortable’: New Jersey Muslims, targets of NYPD surveillance, fight back in lawsuit
Top officials won’t hold the NYPD accountable for civil rights violations of Muslims. So it comes down to Muslim Advocates and a group of New Jersey Muslims to do the job.
Posted in US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged associated press, Islamophobia, Mayor Bloomberg, muslim student association, New Jersey, NYPD, spying
4 Comments
22 congressional reps seek investigation into FBI ‘outreach’ that collected data on Muslims
Efforts to remedy law enforcement abuses against Muslim-Americans have made headlines in recent days. The latest: a Congressional letter calling for an investigation into alleged FBI abuses of Muslims’ civil rights.
Posted in US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged American Civil Liberties Union, featured, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Islamophobia, Muslims, NYPD, spying
8 Comments
Activists fume as NJ attorney general finds NYPD broke no laws in spying on Muslims
‘NYPD detectives were not profiling’ when they spied on Newark Muslims, says the New Jersey attorney general. Activists strongly disagree.
Posted in US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged associated press, Chris Christie, Islamophobia, Jeffrey Chiesa, NYPD
5 Comments
House Dems slam NYPD spy program as throwback to ‘dark chapters’ in US history
Bills introduced in the House aimed to bar federal funds from being used to conduct racial and religious profiling and condemned the NYPD’s spy program.
Growing chill between Obama and Muslims could prove a headache in November
Obama adviser John Brennan’s recent praise for the NYPD crystallized a sense that the Obama administration is out of touch with the Muslim-American and Arab-American community.
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Arab American Institute, Barack Obama, CAIR, Eric Holder, John Brennan, Muslim Public Affairs Council, NYPD
10 Comments
Progressives to Jewish establishment: Ray Kelly doesn’t deserve support
Members of the coalition Jews Against Islamophobia take to the Jewish Week to deliver a searing indictment of Ray Kelly, the NYPD chief.
NYPD helped Mort Zuckerman–8 years later, his paper shills for NYPD spying
Mort Zuckerman gets VIP treatment from the NYPD. Eight years later, his paper is praising the NYPD’s practice of spying on Muslims–and getting the facts wrong.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged Mort Zuckerman, New York Daily News, NYPD
5 Comments
From sea to spying sea: FBI used ‘outreach’ program to collect and store data on Muslims
The FBI’s ‘mosque outreach’ has enabled the agency to collect data on Muslims’ religious beliefs, store that data and share it with other law enforcement agencies.
NYPD surveillance document reveals spying on Palestine solidarity movement
Jordan Flaherty, a journalist who has reported from Gaza, and two Palestine solidarity demonstrations were mentioned in a 2008 NYPD memo.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, War on Terror
Tagged Al-Awda, Jordan Flaherty, NYPD
4 Comments
Peter King hypes Hezbollah threat to US
King’s hearing on Hezbollah in the US was more about stoking fear than about an actual threat.
Posted in Iran, Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged Hezbollah, NYPD, Peter King, terrorism
11 Comments
The Jewish establishment goes to bat for Ray Kelly and the NYPD
The Jewish Community Relations Council has praised Ray Kelly as the best police chief ever. But critics say that Jewish institutional support for the NYPD will harm Jewish-Muslim relations.
Muslim activists give NYPD chief Ray Kelly the cold shoulder
NYPD police commissioner is reaching out to Muslims in the wake of reports that show massive spying on Muslims in the Northeast. But many Muslim activists aren’t accepting the invitations.
Posted in Activism, Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged associated press, Debbie Almontaser, featured, Islam, Michael Bloomberg, NYPD, Ray Kelly, Zuhdi Jasser
13 Comments
AP report: Federal counter-terror funds used for NYPD spying on Muslims
The latest revelation from the AP is a snapshot of the larger problem of federal tax dollars flowing to anti-Muslim trainings.
Newark mayor and Yale president slam NYPD spying program
Bloomberg continues to stand by NYPD’s ‘guide to Muslims’ and ‘mosque crawlers’ as Newark’s Corey Booker and Yale’s president denounce the program
Posted in Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged associated press, Chris Christie, Cory Booker, Islamophobia, Muslims, NYPD
11 Comments
New York’s Muslim community fights back against NYPD Islamophobia
Muslim community leaders say Islamophobia is deep-seated in the New York Police Department. And they’re not taking it anymore.
The agenda behind the anti-Muslim film screened to NYPD: protecting Greater Israel
The backers of an anti-Muslim film shown to the NYPD are major financial backers of Israel’s settlement project.
