Thursday, January 22, 2015

NYC May Yank it's Terrorism Report to Appease Mosque 'spying' Critics

In top-secret talks to settle federal lawsuits against the NYPD for monitoring mosques, the city is weighing a demand that it scrub from its Web site a report on Islamic terrorists, The Post has learned.
The groundbreaking, 92-page report, titled “Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat,” angers critics who say it promotes “religious profiling” and discrimination against Muslims. But law-enforcement sources say removing the report now would come at the worst time — after mounting terror attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris, Boston, Sydney and Ottawa.
Zale Thompson, a man who heeded online calls by ISIS for 
jihad, attacked two NYPD officers with a hatchet in October.
 Photo: AP ; Facebook
Here in New York, Zale Thompson, a man who heeded online calls by ISIS for jihad, attacked two NYPD officers with a hatchet in October.
“The harm is that it sends the message that the NYPD is ­going to back down on its counterterrorism effort in the name of political correctness,” said a former NYPD official. “Shame on the NYPD if they do.”
Former Police Commissioner Ray Kelly used the report as the 
basis for the fight against terrorism in NYC.Photo: AP
Sources familiar with the case confirmed that removal of the NYPD report is one of the major sticking points in settlement negotiations.
Also on the table are demands that the NYPD halt any ongoing surveillance in the Muslim community and that records of prior monitoring be expunged, sources said. (The included link is mine)
Read the rest of the story HERE.

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