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The NYPD Against Muslim-Americans

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Posted on Feb 2, 2012
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New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s involvement in a blatantly anti-Muslim film used to train cadets has leaders of Muslim-American groups calling for his resignation. Debbie Almontaser, who chairs the Muslim Consultative Network, documents some of the NYPD’s acts of aggression against the Muslim community. —ARK

Debbie Almontaser, The Guardian, Comment is free:

In 2007, the NYPD released the Radicalization in the West: The Home Grown Threat report specifically targeting Muslim New Yorkers. Then, this past summer, Commissioner Kelly crossed another line by partnering with the CIA. Under his leadership, the NYPD has engaged in programs that have no regard for civil liberties. Practices such as data-mapping of Muslim American communities, extensive and unwarranted surveillance of individuals, mosques, community leaders and organizations have become common practices.

In October 2011, the AP reported that the NYPD goes as far as monitoring “Muslims who change their names to sound more traditionally American, as immigrants have done for generations, or who adopt Arabic names as a sign of their faith, are often investigated and catalogued in secret New York Police Department intelligence files.” This revelation further alienated Muslim immigrants and converts from integrating in to their desired communities by criminalizing their first amendment right to change their names, be it for a wish for assimilation or because of religious conversion.

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By Robert, February 5 at 6:40 am Link to this comment

One can see that your “hasbara” handlers gave you certain instructions/demands for these TD’s threads.

Your hasbara handler’s mission is avoid facts/truth regarding your beloved Apartheid Israel…keep attempting to divert, cast doubt, sidetrack, throw garbage and ABOVE ALL, Israel rocks…attack Iran, attack Iran…and America pays for it all in $$$ billions & many dead American soldiers…just like what happened in Iraq!

Your hasbara mega-phone is heading towards a blackout zone !!!

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By heterochromatic, February 4 at 8:36 pm Link to this comment

and the majority of those children are Gazan males over the age of 13….......

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By Robert, February 4 at 8:25 pm Link to this comment

By heterochromatic, February 4 at 8:04 pm

“yeah, sure. palestinian children are shot and killed every 15 minutes, and you
know because you’re one of them….

eat shit and die, robert…..or learn to use facts rather than spew bogus claims”

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hetero-IDF/Troll...your IDF boots are leaving many prints behind…

Lets see your so called IDF facts/claims & provide a link for us…eh!

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125 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 1,471 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information)


“The majority of these [Palestinian] children were killed and injured while going about normal daily activities, such as going to school, playing, shopping, or simply being in their homes. Sixty-four percent of children killed during the first six months of 2003 died as a result of Israeli air and ground attacks, or from indiscriminate fire from Israeli soldiers.”

- Catherine Cook


http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/children.html

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By heterochromatic, February 4 at 8:04 pm Link to this comment

yeah, sure. palestinian children are shot and killed every 15 minutes, and you
know because you’re one of them….

eat shit and die, robert…..or learn to use facts rather than spew bogus claims

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By Robert, February 4 at 7:46 pm Link to this comment

“Matthew—-you tell us….. how many unarmed kids DID the NYPD kill this week?”


A lot less than Israel’s IDF child killers. They shoot/kill Palestinian children and NEVER have to spend one hour in prison…NEVER !!!

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By heterochromatic, February 4 at 6:19 pm Link to this comment

Matthew—-you tell us….. how many unarmed kids DID the NYPD kill this week?

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By Matthew Swaye, February 4 at 2:10 pm Link to this comment
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Imagine two white grandmothers taken this way. (You can’t, it’s
inconceivable, I can’t picture it.) No where can one film two white grandmothers
being taken away in unmarked cars.

*Raw Footage* Elders Arrested By NYPD in Harlem Jan. 5, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S_Q4KumJNE

      S&F is a crime against humanity, God says. Every single Brownsville cop is
going to hell, I deduce?
      Do Black and Brown children of this city deserve no more than
criminalization and ridicule? How many unarmed kids did the NYPD kill this
week?
    Oink Bloomberg, oink Kelly. If you murder an unarmed youth in the
bathroom of his home in front of his grandmother and his little sister, because
he had five bucks worth of pot on him, you should expect anger. You should
expect to be called a pig and run out of town. You’re a pig, get out, may God
smite you down, Amen. The NYPD’s problem is that it’s being run like a
corporation. Corporations are not good at keeping youth safe.
      Kelly is a warmonger and a businessman. Our complacency is a testament
to the totality of his police state: indeed our complacency is the goal of the
open-air prisons he’s made of marginalized neighborhoods.
      We want our streets back. We should be moving into an era in which the
cops do less. Instead, they are doing more and more. Collectively and
peacefully we gotta stand up. We all have cameras - there’s no logical reason
we can’t cop-watch this cop problem away. Cameras on.
      Film the NYPD saying, “I’m just doing my job.” We’re creating an online
museum of the New Jim Crow. We will shame these thugs in perpetuity. Their
grandchildren will know what they did for a living. Their great-grandchildren
will know.
      NYPD is profiting from the pain and suffering of People of Color. The
crime rate, we are to believe, is down. Oink oink bang bang, every day the same
old thang: UF-250, UF-250, UF-250, repeat…

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By gerard, February 4 at 10:23 am Link to this comment

Boys will be boys!

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By heterochromatic, February 3 at 8:02 pm Link to this comment

PitH—- you’re a dolt…. Despising Iran’s government and not thinking that
Manning is free of culpability…......means that someone is a partisan of Israel????

that’s simple jackassery.


go chase a carrot.

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By PatrickHenry, February 3 at 7:11 pm Link to this comment

tic,

What kind of a wishy washy answer is that?

You an anti-semite! Hahaha.  By your own hubris your a regular internet arm chair commando attacking Iran for percieved transgressions and hanging Bradley Manning, that Benedict Arnold!  Shutting down a blog because they thought you an anti-semite, what a renegade you are tic, a regular el magnifico.

Your posts prove otherwise.

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By heterochromatic, February 3 at 6:48 pm Link to this comment

PitH—- blow it out. I simply can’t help you and any others except to repeat that
I defend what I think is truth…..... I have no connections to israel and never will
before the day that the occupation of the West Bank ends…. that’s been my
feeling for all of my adult life and I expect to die before that changes.

the first blog I ever got thrown off did so because I hated the mofos and they
hated me because they were certain that I was an anti-Semite.
I hated them and made it my mission to refute every damn lie they printed. the
blog was called contentions and before they got rid of me, they had to shut
down the entire comment portion of the blog.

I’m simply not going to get frantic at a few folks here who can’t get the idea
that someone who doesn’t buy the anti-Israeli lies brought lies simply must
believe all the Israeli lies.


sorry…....but all the leaders and both sides are worthless SOBs and they all lie.

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By PatrickHenry, February 3 at 6:32 pm Link to this comment

homoerotic,

Actually Robert and many others have hit the nail on the head by calling out your 24/7 nonsense.

Its not hard to see through your agenda, ridicule, confuse and obfuscate valid criticism of the zionist entity stangling this once great nation, now back under the bridge.

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By heterochromatic, February 3 at 6:24 pm Link to this comment

Robert——keep wanking. calling people hasbara agents is the mark of a person
too fucked-up to present argumentation.


you just keep watching your conspiracy videos and imagining that every one is out
to get you and sending secret agents to confound you because only you (nd the
other wankers) know the secret truth of everything….....from the internet…..

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By Robert, February 3 at 6:12 pm Link to this comment

hetero-Troll...with all your pale attempts at sidetracking, diverting & changing the topic, one can see where your boot prints paths lead to/from >>> Israel/IDF zone!

Your “hasbara” mega-phone is loud & clear !!!

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By gerard, February 3 at 4:51 pm Link to this comment

Well, I see that this one went off the rails some
time back.  Too bad.

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By Robert, February 3 at 3:33 pm Link to this comment

Fake Al Qaeda Actors EXPOSED! Adam Gadahn & Yousef al-Khattab


“Its by way of deception” ... Israeli/Mossad style.

~~~~~~~~~

Click on link to view who really is this “Actor” :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsUtvOW6SR0&skipcontrinter=1

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By heterochromatic, February 3 at 8:54 am Link to this comment

Robert____if you enjoy that bullshit, have fun with yourself.

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By Robert, February 3 at 8:53 am Link to this comment

By heterochromatic, February 3 at 5:40 am

“well Skinhead—-we in NYC have a lot of very, very nice Arab people here. You
wouldn’t know any of them, though.

You would be more likely to be happy about the 19 Arabians in the two hijacked jets.

~~~~~~~~~~~

The 14 Israeli ‘Art Students’ Were Inside
The WTC Towers Camping With Construction Passes


From Dick Eastman
10-12-9

The 14 Art Students, it has now been confirmed, were in the World Trade Center Towers with Construction Passes, Connection to Mossad Spy Ring

More Mossad in the towers before 9/11:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA9MvV-SrCo&feature=player_embedded
http://coreofcorruption.com/index.php/?p=293
===================

I was contacted by an individual who led me to this information about the art students living in WTC Tower 1 before 9/11. In fact, in May of 2000, they were living on the 91st floor where they were doing construction and sleeping in tents. They did have construction passes. I do believe that ACE Elevator and Securicom, as well as Kroll Associates should be focused on, however, this is important information that has never been confirmed, until now.”


Click on link for the rest of details:

http://www.rense.com/general87/14_1.htm


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By Robert, February 3 at 8:44 am Link to this comment

By heterochromatic, February 3 at 5:40 am

“well Skinhead—-we in NYC have a lot of very, very nice Arab people here. You
wouldn’t know any of them, though.

You would be more likely to be happy about the 19 Arabians in the two hijacked jets.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hey h’chromatic... Hmmm ... if one would sift through some of the false flags that are out there, one would most likely find much more transparent details as to what really happened on 9/11….Click on link for a starter:

 

“Israeli Spies Caught Celebrating 9-11”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS89vNH-eeY&feature=related

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By heterochromatic, February 3 at 6:10 am Link to this comment

me too, Sinbag, Evil Zionists are not the answer and being as morally bankrupt as
their neighbors will help no one.

as long as the settlers are allowed into the Occupied West Bank, the corruption in
Israel will continue to fester.

Got to rise above the small-mindedness, stagnation and bigotry that characterizes
the nations of the Middle East

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By Arabian Sinbad, February 3 at 6:00 am Link to this comment

Well, hater-in-chief, I am glad that I am keeping you on your toes, or tied to your keyboard, to keep doing the filthy things that only an old rabid Zionist is capable of doing.

You can’t imagine the great pleasure I feel when I see that I was successful in irritating an evil Zionist!

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By heterochromatic, February 3 at 5:41 am Link to this comment

and keep wanking as well.

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By heterochromatic, February 3 at 5:40 am Link to this comment

well Skinhead—-we in NYC have a lot of very, very nice Arab people here. You
wouldn’t know any of them, though.

You would be more likely to be happy about the 19 Arabians in the two hijacked
jets.


thanks for your concern and, speaking on behalf of NYC, please kiss our ass and
keep walking.

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By Arabian Sinbad, February 3 at 5:35 am Link to this comment

The information in this article is no new news for me, for since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Islam and Muslims, wherever they live, have been made the enemy and the bogeymen that Zionism and political-military America designated in order to justify their evil schemes of warmongering, spying, policing and controlling free speech and political activism.

The fact that the particular issues raised in this article took place in New York is a further proof that the evil things that originate in America are driven in great part by the whims of Zionists.

Isn’t New York the home of the most ardent and fanatic Zionists outside evil Israel?! Putting it differently, New York is the other shining Zionist hill or hell outside the hell called Israel!

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By thecrow, February 3 at 4:40 am Link to this comment

What’s in the bag, Ray?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/in-the-bag/

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By PatrickHenry, February 2 at 5:52 pm Link to this comment

If it was against the Jews, it would be in every newspaper, on every TV screen with tag teams of celebrities and politicians comming out of the woodwork to denounce the film makers as anti semitic.

What a double standard we live in America.

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By heterochromatic, February 2 at 1:56 pm Link to this comment

—-Basically, we learned this when I was in high school eighty years ago.___

most of we learned it a little later, gerard.

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By gerard, February 2 at 1:48 pm Link to this comment

People who sincerely want to maintain and preserve democracy need to remember that stereotpying wherever it appears stimulates anger and tends to encourage persecution and violence without ever uttering the words. It is widely used everywhere to maintain conformity by creating emotional barriers that eliminate minorities from full membership in any chosen majority.

Basically, we learned this when I was in high school eighty years ago.

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By heterochromatic, February 2 at 12:39 pm Link to this comment

Sorry, ARK, but factual reporting would not allow for writing that Kelly was
involved in making that film.

The occasional attempt at sticking to the facts might be nice.

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