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Muslim Group Urges NYPD To Revise Its Assessment of Domestic Terror Threat

By Howard M. Friedman

At a press conference held on Thursday, the New York Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition released a report titled: Counterterrorism Policy: MACLC's Critique of the NYPD?s Report on Homegrown Radicalism. As reported by The American Muslim, the report calls on the New York Police Department to update its 2007 study, Radicalization in the West: Homegrown Radicalism. The MALC report's Preface summarizes the objections to the NYPD study:

The NYPD Report calls into question the loyalties and motivations of law-abiding and mainstream Muslims in a deeply offensive way and paints them as potential threats to national security without substantiated evidence. Furthermore, it erroneously associates religious precepts with violence and terror, irrespective of First Amendment and Equal Protection rights. As such, MACLC has found that the NYPD Report neither protects American Muslims from undeserved scrutiny and profiling nor strengthens domestic security discourse.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on November 22, 2008 (boomark / email).