New York, January 24: A training film material used by the New York police that accuses Muslims of launching a holy war against the West is sparking a storm of condemnations in the United States, amid accusations that the world's largest police force is sowing fears of Muslims in the country.
“The training of the world’s largest city police force is an important question,” Faiza Patel, a director at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School which obtained the documents under Freedom of Information law, told The New York Times on Tuesday, January 24.
“The police have shown an explosive documentary to its officers and simply stonewalled us.”
News broke out that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had used a film titled “The Third Jihad” in training more than a thousand officers.
A police officer initially denied the report, but later said that the film had been mistakenly screened “a couple of times” for a few officers.
But internal police documents, obtained under the state’s Freedom of Information Law, showed that the film was shown “on a continuous loop” for between three months and one year of training for nearly 1,500 officers.
The 72-minute film, which includes an interview with Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, claims that there were three jihads: One at the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him), a second in the Middle Ages and a third that is underway covertly in the West today.
It starts with ominous music playing as images show "Muslim terrorists" shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph showing an Islamic flag flying over the White House.
“This is the true agenda of much of Islam in America,” a narrator intones.
“A strategy to infiltrate and dominate America… This is the war you don’t know about.”
The film is funded by Clarion Fund, a non-profit group that shares officials with Aish HaTorah, an Israeli organization that opposes any land concessions in the West Bank.
Its previous documentary attacking Muslims’ “war on the West” attracted support from the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a major supporter of Israel who has been pouring millions of dollars into a so-called super PAC that backs Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich.
The producer of “The Third Jihad,” Raphael Shore, also works with Aish HaTorah.
Sowing Fears
Human rights advocates and Muslim leaders accused the NYPD of sowing fears of Muslims among Americans.
“It defiled our faith and misrepresented everything we stood for,” Zead Ramadan, the New York president of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told The New York Times.
The news of the film was revealed to Tom Robbins, a former columnist with The Village Voice, who was contacted by a Muslim police officer who spoke of his unease with the film in January 2010.
When the news broke out last year, Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, called it a “wacky film” that had been shown “only a couple of times when officers were filling out paperwork before the actual course work began.”
Yet, the officer said the video was shown continuously “during the sign-in, medical and administrative orientation process.”
“The officer was completely offended by it as a Muslim,” Ramadan said.
Later on, the Police Academy informed Browne that back on March 23, 2011, that the film had been viewed by 68 lieutenants, 159 sergeants, 31 detectives and 1,231 patrol officers.
At this point, the Brennan Center launched its nine-month legal battle to obtain this information.
“The department’s response was to deny it and to fight our request for information,” Patel of the Brennan Center said.
“It suggests a broader problem that they refuse to divulge this information much less to discuss it.”
Anger has grown against the New York police recently following reports that the NYPD used undercover agents to spy on Muslim communities.
A report by the Associated Press said that the NYPD sent out undercover officers into ethnic communities to track daily life and monitor mosques as well as Muslim student organizations.
However, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the practice, saying it does not take religion into account in its policing.
Police commissioner Raymond W. Kelly also denied targeting Muslims in its policing, saying it only followed leads.
-Agencies
Being human
Only mentally retarded people like you can make such comments.
If you want a Muslim to give up the right path of following the teaching of Quran and Hadith which teaches the muslims to be kind not only to human beings but to animals also (I am not talking about you) but real animals.
If some misguided muslims are not following the teaching of Islam it does not mean all muslims are bad.
There are Christians and Jews also who are terrorizing the world but since the media is controlled by Islam haters this media do not publicize the terrorism of Jews and Christian.
Good Job Mosad !
When the Police, Judicial, Parliamentary departments are hypnotized to a cynical extent. What can we expect from them? Sympathy for the massacre or Justice for Genocide of Muslims around the Globe???
So ?
Here the thief is indignant not because he's thieving but because he's caught thieving.
Aren't you guys doing exactly what the NYPD thinks you are doing ? So you are unhappy that you are caught with your pants down ? Rather than jump around like a drunk monkey which stepped on hot coal, why don't you to try be human like the rest of us ? If you want Islamic laws, live in Islamic lands and leave the rest of the world to us human beings. Is that too difficult to understand ?
So long a Muslim remains trapped in hadith and quran, he's either an active or a passive terrorist.
islamophobia
now the west and even Indians are suffering from a disease called islamophobia they know that Islam came to dominate not to b suppressed. they are fearing that they have to abide by the law..they wont b allow to do adultery not allow to drink alcohol and not allow to do rapes there will b justice all over the world just read the about the khilafa of Umar(RA) how he ruled almost half of the world.there was peace and harmony among the people of the world.just stopped being communal and stop speaking venom against islam.i know people like you are funded. you are paid by RSS to comment and we dont believe the law made by human beings.you are telling to muslims why dont you tell to US who are killing many innocent people on the name of war against terrorism see Afghanistan and Iraq and what about gujrat riots.stop supporting your father US.
islam is the birthplace of kafirophobia
Islam is the well from which Kafirophobia springs. Your books and your frigging deeds right from the time of prophet to now reek of Kafirophobia. Who you trying to fool you moron ?
teri caliphate ki aisi ki taisi. More muslims kills muslims in the name of religion as compared to muslim deaths in the hands of non-muslims. There are 50 odd Islamic countries..why can't a few join together and form a khali-plate ? (err...caliphate). You don't have a friggin answer......so here's your answer : Calphate was possible in a bygone era. Today's realities are purely nationality based. If you think Islam is different, then stop thinking thru you arse and wake up to reality.
Fooling a Fool
There is no logic behind fooling a fool like U.The only conclusion is that you feel insecure by the emerging religion ISLAM,Which is pure and authentic.You too know that your stone gods are helpless.
Fight Kafirophiobic arabic zombie wannabe desi muzzies
Not one muzzie ever has an answer to the questions raised on their ways, their heroes. Instead they run around like a head less chicken and shout like a broken record : islam is authentic and it is the purest and it'll rule the world.
Islam is like a sumo wrestler with the brains of an earthworm. When it was difficult to resist its physical force, it spread. Now the realities are different. It is trying to win thru stink (jihad). Sorry, but your glory and gory days are over. As you can see, you guys are busy cannibalizing each other. You'll now go through a re-boot and hopefully either perish fully or emerge with a version which compatible with times and rest of the humanity.
Before you com and fart that you and you alone have the best religion, answer my queries.
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