Handcuffing NYPD Counterterrorism Training
When a documentary on the threat of Islamist terrorism, called The Third Jihad, was screened for the NYPD, the New York Times ran several articles condemning the movie as “Islamophobic” (see, “In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims”). Most arguments in support of the documentary have focused on ties between the New York Times and Islamist groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization labeled by former Congressman Cass Ballenger as a “fundraising arm for Hezbollah.” Yet not many have addressed the dangerous stifling of free speech that intelligence and law enforcement officers endure because of such politically charged accusations of Islamophobia.
It should be noted that not all Muslims in the U.S., including myself, are offended by the documentary. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim-American of Syrian origin, serves as the narrator of The Third Jihad. After watching the documentary it seems Jasser simply wants Americans to know the difference between a moderate Muslim — an individual who sees his or her faith as a personal matter — and political Islam, or what political scientists call Islamism. Proponents of Islamism, or Islamists, desire to “Islamicize” society through non-violent means. To this end, Islamists maneuver through social, legal, judicial, educational, and political institutions with the goal of indoctrinating future generations to accept Islamist principles and institute tenets of Sharia law. Advocates of speech codes that punish the blasphemy of Islam can accurately be called Islamists.
The debate over the legitimacy of the documentary, as evidenced by the hundreds of comments and subsequent articles published on the Internet, parallels the power and importance of free speech and open political dialogue in our society today. Ironically, such discussion is not permitted within law enforcement — among the actual men and women whose job it is to protect American lives on a daily basis. How is this possible? It is because of the success of Islamist influence in the U.S., despite their small numbers.
As Jasser notes in his own rebuttal to the New York Times, while the number of Islamists may not be meaningful in the U.S. today or even in one hundred years — their international ties, lobbying influence, and access to foreign funding give them an advantage the typical first generation American-Muslim immigrant community of modest means cannot compete with. As a result, Islamist organizations like CAIR, the National Iranian American Council, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council have undue influence within government by purporting to represent American-Muslims.
A few years ago I worked at One Police Plaza (the main HQ for the NYPD) on a construction renovation project for office space being used by the Department Of Counterterrorism. For several months I worked alongside these hard working men and women, and I found them to be very smart and dedicated to their job, from the civillian office workers up to the Chiefs.
They are not violent racists bent on killing everyone with a middle eastern name. They are not a bunch of “shoot first and ask questions later” cowboys.
They are not jackbooted stormtroopers.
They are well aware that there are lots of people out there who want them to go away.
I for one and happy they are on the job, despite what the CAIR and other Islam apologists say.
Mohammedanism and faithful Mohammedans are at war with all Christians. If the NYPD wants to effectively defeat them and destroy them and their ‘religion’ once and for all, then they’d better become “violent racists bent on killing everyone with a Middle Eastern name” right away. Or lose.
“We speak about Christianity when we talk about right-wing militia groups, skinheads, and neo-Nazis”
There is no group that can justify terrorist, criminal, or anti-social acts through the teachings of Jesus or the Christian church. Any attempt to do so can be rebutted by even the most inexperienced of churchgoers. The problem at present is that while not all Muslims are terrorists, the vast majority of terrorists that we are liable to encounter at present are Muslim, and do justify their actions – whether legitimately or not – through the Koran and the Hadith. This attempt by our government to totally ignore the religious underpinnings of the “Islamists” and equate them with “right-wing militia groups” is nothing more or less than an attack on Christianity and all religions other than Progressive Socialism. It also undercuts all attempts to fight the terrorists by totally misunderstanding their motives.
If the IRA were currently bombing U.S. airliners, than we would be justified in profiling passengers and scrutinizing those with Irish physical characteristics and names. Likewise if the Basque separatists were, for some unfathomable reason, to be active here. There is no logical reason to be failing to profile those most likely to be Islamic extremists and subjecting all American citizens to the same scrutiny.
HEY SHERLOCKS,
WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT OUR COUNTRY?
Mayor Bloomberg has condemned it. Kelly has been made to apologize; he said it was a “mistake” to have shown the film.
The powerful message sent out across America: Counter terrorism is unacceptable and wrong. Pleasing and obeying every command of Muslims Brotherhood groups, such as CAIR, is the nation’s TOP priority. NOT protecting Americans. NOT keeping America safe.
Who is running and controlling our country? The Muslim Brotherhood is.
Curious, it’s a sort of institutional reversion to psychological behaviorism in law enforcement. Only the objective observable criminal behavior and conduct counts, not the criminal’s subjective understanding (motives) for the conduct–although one wonders how one can develop “intelligence” (subjective understanding) about conduct that has not occurred? Of course, this psychological behaviorism as applied to Muslims apparently does not apply to home grown American militia types whose subjective understanding of the constitution, dislike for high taxes and government spending, and perceived violations of the “sovereign” individual are OK subjective constructs for profiling and educating local law enforcement by the Department Of Homeland Security.
So, the next is: CAIR calls for resignation of the U.S. Army Joint Chiefs of Staff?
How about disbanding FBI and CIA as “Islamophobic bodies of (mostly) white supremacists”?
How about Moslem groups in the U.S. halting operations of the U.S. Navy in the Gulf?
How about appointing high-ranking “Moslem affairs advisers” in the every FBI and police unit throughout the nation?
Whoa, it seems that Allah is really Aqbar…
The the author:
In the same vein as the famous “are you now, or have you ever been a member of Comunist party” questionb, one must ask:
Do you or do you NOT, reject the teachings and the legacy of the murdering, child raping, jihad commanding Mohammad?
What say you sir, in your “personal” matter regarding the sick and evil tyrant that commands all Muslims?
Apostate, or follower?
You must be one, or the other.
Your (false) Prophet is quite clear in that
My appologies Supna,
As I see from your bio that you are a woman, I understand you to be a VICTIM of the evil cult of death called Islam.
But the question remains:
As Mohammad was clearly, (in all versions of sacred Islamic texts), the most flawed human being imaginable, a cruel twisted man with severe mental issues and a propensity for violence unheard of by any other “prophet”, do you or do you NOT condemn him, his teachings and his legacy?
Are you a follower of his “perfect way”
OR
An Apostate?
Mohammad leaves no room for equivocation.
“Proponents of Islamism, or Islamists, desire to “Islamicize” society through non-violent means.”
Pull the other one. What does setting bombs off in the marketplace have to do with ‘non-violent means’?
I’m not surprised that the NY Times soiled their diapers over the NYPD viewing “The Third Jihad”. That is one documentary I was happy to purchase when I saw the ad for it, and there’s a lot of interesting information in it of which I wasn’t aware. Of course the MSM and Islamist apologists don’t want us to have any information that can be used to fight the coming invasion of one of their preferred minorities (if you can call a group that encompasses more than 20% of the world’s population a “minority”…)
How ANY sane person in the year 2012 (especially those who live in the West) could willingly adhere to the beliefs of this Jew/Christian/female/freedom-hating vile cult called Islam is beyond me. To believe in Mohammed as a “prophet of G-d” and revere his teachings is to be against every basic human feeling of decency, respect, love and tolerance. Islam is the antithesis of religion.