New York Muslims to rally against NYPD

New York, February 02: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the US city of New York has planned a rally to protest the recent actions of the New York Police Department (NYPD) against the Muslim community.

CAIR-New York has posted an announcement for the “Rally for Justice” on Friday Feb. 3 from 3-5pm in Foley Square on its website cair-ny.org urging the Muslim community of New York City to participate and call their family and friends to do so as well.

“The NYPD has transgressed all boundaries of respect for our community namely in their instillation of spying and surveillance program of masjids (mosques) … and more recently in the use of the anti-Muslim film “The Third Jihad” in NYPD trainings,” CAIR wrote on its website.

The “The Third Jihad” is a 72-minute documentary-style film Many Muslim produced by the American-Israeli institution Clarion Fund makes controversial movies to promote Islamophobia in America. Many Muslim organizations have branded the movie as inflammatory.

CAIR-New York's announcement said the movie “depicts the majority of American Muslims as supportive of violent extremism” adding that, “most disappointingly is the participation of current police commissioner Ray Kelly in the video.”

Kelly had denied the use of the film before it was revealed that the movie had been used in police training for over 1500 NYPD anti-terrorism police cadets.

According to CAIR, since Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg both refuse to accept the severity of the case, or meet with local Islamic leaders in an attempt to mend the situation “we as a community with full force must stand up to the mistreatment and dismissal of our community at large. Silence and lack of reaction to this pressing issue will only allow this type systematic persecution of a minority community to continue and escalate without any reprimand.”

Take By: Siasat News