Mosque in America and the NYPD

ABC reported today that civil rights lawyers are filing lawsuit against the New York Police Department-NYPD accusing them of violating federal laws and guidelines in monitoring Muslims activities and livelihood in New York City.

ABC showed a picture of cameras surrounding a Mosque in the City, pictured in this article. The lawsuit described the police activists as “widespread and intense”.

On January of last year, The New York Times exposed and reported similar activities that need to be looked at from much larger angle and from much clearer lens. The Times talked of a film that has been widely circulated, as a training material, at the NYPD depicting Muslims as potential terrorists and warning of threats of Muslims in America trying to launch“Jihad” terrorism against the country and the government.

The film name was “The Third Jihad” and was funded by a non-profit organization as the report said.   It is well known and customary for security, intelligence and police departments, all over the world to motivate their individuals against potential terror from potential groups by showing real and propaganda- not real- materials.

However, as the Expose reported, this particular video was a complete fabrication and targeted not terrorists or potential terrorists or threats to America, but targeted a population of The United States, a religion that over 2 billions of humans believe in around the world and in the United States. Here it needs a review, and it is being reviewed and it has been pulled out as the Times article mentioned.

America again does not like to be and it is not bigot- there are of course individuals, but they are on the fringe, even across different sectors of the society, in companies, towns, cities and they could be found prejudiced against anything, could be against those that believe in Christianity or sects within it, or Judaism or Hinduism, anything or because someone wears a skirt, or have a beard- it is human, unfortunately, by nature to be prejudice.

Having said that, the vast majority of humans either keep their prejudices to themselves, are clever enough not to show them, pretend not to be prejudice, or spread them legally through freedom of speech; another legal venue until courts decide if a particular bigotry or prejudice cross the line to actually violate existing laws, and an entity or individual or individuals claim and say so and bring them to the attention of the courts system.

Those individuals throughout history, very few, that chose terror to claim a message, are the ones that societies need to target. Those that claim religions to spread a message of hate violently. The danger of these individuals resides in the fact that for the vast majority of people, just the mention of religion makes them jump.

In 2001, America was a target of individuals from Arab countries that said or claimed, before committing their crimes and terror, that they have attacked America in the name of Islam- those individuals belonged to Al Qaeda terror organization.

Now, any human being, unless they are running an agenda, should know that logically and practically this cannot be; religions do not kill or terrorize, individuals with agendas do kill, using for the most part brainwashed other individuals. Those people are everywhere, and smart intelligence in democratic countries would use smart methods to identify.

Historically, in Europe, the Middle East and most parts of the world, there have been bigots as well that spread propaganda about people of Christian faith or Jewish faith. It is very unfortunate, but exists, and it needs to be fought.

America takes on its part to be more sensitive to prejudice, more forceful, maybe, in trying to be right and smart and practical. This film and similar propaganda charge the emotions but it blinds the brains, it clouds judgment and it creates mini isolated societies within the same country.

Continue to fight those methods which say in the name of national security and safety that least not smart and not true or not helpful. In the same time, we the Americans, need  to spread a message that the country will fight against terrorism and terrorists regardless of their claim falsely of religious background that make them do what they do.

History proves that those who have claimed religious motives or religious inspirations to commit crimes have almost always been motivated by political agendas far from the religion, that the religion if it can talk, it would scream so loud…Foul Play. But things will continue, there is no utopia on earth, and accordingly, we normal and law abiding citizens, need to continue to think and expose those that falsely claim allegations that they cannot substantiate, scale or quantify.

Originally published in WSN on 02/06/2013
http://www.wespeaknews.com/features/mosque-in-america-and-the-nypd-140643.html