Another attempt to silence critics through legal intimidation -- instead, once again, of directing efforts within the Islamic community to eradicate the attitudes that give rise to Islamic supremacist violence. By Art Moore for WorldNetDaily.com (thanks to News4U):
A Muslim analyst for the New York City Police Department is suing the city for workplace harassment, alleging he was subject to a regular stream of "anti-Islamic" messages from an e-mail list run by a former adviser who trained detectives in counter-terrorism.The contracted adviser, retired 21-year CIA veteran Bruce Tefft, is also a defendant in the suit, filed in federal court in Manhattan last December.
But Tefft – a founder of the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Unit – told WND he believes the analyst, who is not named in court papers, has no case against him. Tefft, noting the suit so far has cost him $50,000 in legal fees, cites First Amendment protections and argues NYPD personnel signed up for his e-mail list at their own will and were completely free to unsubscribe at any time.
He also points out his employer at the time, the private intelligence firm Orion Scientific Systems, covered his entire salary and expenses, effectively donating his services to the NYPD.
A hearing is scheduled for next month on a motion to dismiss the case.
Tefft continues to send out about 50 to 60 e-mails a day comprised mostly of unclassified material and news reports from around the world related to terrorism and Islam. In a fraction of those dispatches he adds his own comments, some of which became a focus of the complaint.
"This is a global war we are in," Tefft said, explaining the relevance of the e-mailed reports to domestic officials. "The enemy is a global enemy. Jihadists are all over the world. So whatever goes on around the world has value here."
The suit by the Egyptian-born analyst – who filed as "John Doe Anti-Terrorism Officer" because he works undercover in the Cyber Unit – says the e-mails "ridiculed and disparaged the Muslim religion and Arab people, and stated that Muslim- and Arab-Americans were untrustworthy and could not reliably serve in law enforcement positions or handle sensitive data."
He also claims he was subject to disparaging remarks by NYPD personnel and that on one occasion, Muslim and Arab-American employees of the intelligence unit were asked to leave the room after giving a presentation, while other employees were allowed to stay, according to the New York Observer.
The suit contends that despite the analyst's repeated complaints to supervisors about Tefft's e-mail distribution over a period of three years, the city "failed to do anything to stop it."
"Tefft's hate-filled and humiliating email briefings were distributed to virtually all City employees who worked in the NYPD's Intelligence Division, including the highest-ranking members of that division and Plaintiff's supervisors," says the complaint.
The Muslim analyst's lawyer, Ilann Maazel, was not available for comment.
The analyst, a former prison guard at the city's Rikers Island jail, has been assigned since 1998 to the NYPD's Intelligence Division, where he helped form the Cyber Unit in 2002, Maazel told the New York Times in December. The members scan the Internet to monitor potential threats, and Maazel said the analyst's family in Egypt could be harmed if the nature of his work were revealed.
Not a sentimentalist
According to the suit, Tefft's personal notes on the e-mails included comments such as "a good Muslim … can't be a good American," "Burning the hate-filled Koran should be viewed as a public service at the least," and "This is not a war against terrorism ... it is against Islam and we are not winning."
On one article headlined "1 in 4 Hold Anti-Muslim Views," Tefft added, "Then 1 in 4 is well-informed." On another one titled, "Has U.S. threatened to vaporize Mecca?" he commented, "Excellent idea, if true."
Tefft, who spent 17 of his 21 years in clandestine services stationed overseas, including hot spots such as Mogadishu and Angola, makes no apologies for his views.
"I won't dispute what I was saying; I could justify what I said about Islam," he told WND.
Tefft believes the threat of Islam to the U.S. is so serious he has no time to mince words.
"I'm not a sentimentalist, and I'm not hate-filled either," he said. "Hate is an emotion. I don't feel emotional about it at all. I feel analytical and logical."
Tefft insists there clearly is a link between fundamental Islam and terror.
"There is nothing un-Islamic about Osama bin Laden," he said of the al-Qaida leader. "If there were, he would have been declared apostate, non Islamic."
Maazel, in a December interview with the New York Times, called the e-mails "racist," but Tefft says that is absurd.
"I don't consider Islam a race," he said. "So to call me racist is ridiculous. I have good friends who are Egyptian officials. I've worked all over the world."
Islam, he maintains, should be regarded as a political ideology bent on world conquest....
Another Moderate Muslim trying to victimize himself and stop people from connecting the dots - rather than working with other Moderate Muslims to seek out and remove the people that cause the terrorism from within the Muslim community.
"Islam, he maintains, should be regarded as a political ideology bent on world conquest...."
It sounds to me like the guy is rude to Muslims which is unnecessary. He does make a good point, is Islam a religion or a political ideology. Of course it is both, which is problematic for secularist thinkers since the religion aspect is so prominent.
Islam has never given up it primarily political role, as has Christianity. Christians came to a compromise with secularism which has worked pretty good. Both secularists and Christians continually bitch at each other, but we don't kill each other anymore so that is some kind of progress.
Not so with Islam. Islam is a far more political religion and therefore it begs the question as to whether prejudice against it is wrong. For example, communism/marxism has many of the aspects of religion inthat it has hopes for an apocalyptic utopian future. There is not god, however some religions like buddhism don't have a god either. Most Marxism, but not all, was evil because it sought to rid the world of competing worldviews through violence and persecution, just like much of Islam does. If someone was running an anti-marxist email list, would they be sued? Of course not. The same goes for fascism, it had an almost mythical/religious narrative about the superiority of the germanic/white peoples, combined with a neopagan semispiritual view of its manifest destiny to take over the world politically and genetically. Such a movement want deeply spiritual in its outlook and nature (demonically spiritual, but spiritual in fact). Would an email list be wrong to criticize Americans who were in love with Nazism (lots of Americans through it was good).
Part of the problem we are facing right now, is that people lack the theological and historical understand to discern correctly what Islam is and is not. Sure there are parts of Islam that are benign, just as there are communist systems that are more akin to the Amish than to Stalin. However, the predominant communist movements were and are violent. Just as within Islam the major schools of thought are supremacist, sexist, and violent in their theological understandings and relations to non-Muslims (especially non-Christians and Jews).
The first step it seems is to help people understand that a religion can be an ideological movement and vice versa. Once secularists understand this, they will become major allies in stopping and reversing the spread of Sharia Affirming Islam.
Mr. Tefft is right regarding our fight. He knows the enemy because he has studied the quran. A good muslim cannot be a good American because the choice is a mutually exclusive one.
Islam is the antithesis of freedom and peace. The pursuit of happiness for a good muslim is destructive for all others, including other muslims.
The biggest threat to islam is muslims. They cannot live in peace with one another, even when there are no differing faiths present.
I'm wondering where CAIR is in all this. They seem to be eerily absent on this one. . .so far.
Muslims are desperate to put blasphemy laws into every level of our society. Did Mr. Tefft ever publish anything to the effect that he was going to do physical harm to the Egyptian analyst or his family? If Mr. Tefft did not go down that road, he deserves all of his rights to free speech. I wish him luck though. He will probably need it.
Dr. Tefft distributes open source intelligence (OSINT) reports that consist mainly of news media pieces and blogosphere snippets. Anyone can subscribe and see for themselves what this is all about: Grendel Report.
I would take this complaint with a grain of salt. It's well known that muslims who don't agree with what someone is saying about islam or its followers, will resort to legal action based on lies. Lying is their best weapon, playing the victim is a close second.
Reports, facts; the truth is the worst thing for muslims. That is why this ridiculous "religion of peace" moniker came about. It was the same with Pope Benedict XVI's remark. You can't even have a dialogue with these people about their "founder" without cities burning. It just cannot be discussed.
The truth spoken to muslims is like holy water thrown on a vanpire.
It is most unfortunate that Mr Teft is racking up a small fortune in legal fees defending himself in this lawsuit...
However, this guy *GETS IT.* It is clear that he understands exactly what threat we face under Islam.
And, aside from the money he's having to spend on his legal defense, I think it would be great for this lawsuit to make it all the way to the courts, because, just as he stated, he can defend every point he has made about Islam. This guy is obviously very well educated about Islam, and seems sharp enough to be able to clearly put forth written proof (and lots of it) demonstrating WHY he has made the statements and claims he has.
We've always said that if ppl KNEW what REAL Islam was about, there would be a world-wide outcry about it and a fight against it... Here's a way to kick it out from under the rock where it's hiding and shine some light on it.
At the end of the article is this gem:
I would suggest that any anti-Arab sentiment among the NYPD rank and file might be related to the fact that 19 Arabs murdered 60 New York police officers and 343 firefighters and paramedics in the line of duty (23 from NYPD) in addition to 2,416 civilians (19,858 body parts recovered) on September 11, 2001.
Greetings:
Here's an interesting weblink about SLAP (strategic lawsuits to prevent public participation).
http://www.answers.com/topic/strategic-lawsuit-against-public-participation?cat=biz-fin
So an expert is not allowed to have an opinion?
Because it offends a Muslim who dislikes the expert's characterization of (vengeful, misogynistic and supremacist) Islam as incompatable with the Constitution and Bill of Rights?
These "offendees" should realize that the more noise they make, the more now-blissfully-ignorant people will read the blisteringly-intolerant Koran.
And be repelled by it.
Miffed Muslim plantiffs should quit while they're ahead, because the slo-mo Islamic invasion into the West will be easier to accomplish if the infidels do not hear any of the actual dismal dogmas of Islam.
All these lawsuits do is wake the public to the cruelty and violence and bizarrity of the "Recitation".
So, sue on, Mohammads!
When only Baptists are suicide bombers and terrorist, I'm sure Mr. Tefft's E-mails will warn about the threat from Baptists.
I hope that when Mr. Tefft goes to court, his lawyers are smart enough to cite the many murderous passages from the Koran, and ask the analyst to tell the court what they mean?
Mr. Tefft should win this hands down,but then, in this country, you never know what kind of screwy rulling you can get from a Judge.
Tefft is a hero. Aren't there any lawyers doing pro bono work who can help him out? We should send Tefft money for his legal fees.
If the suit fails, will the Muslim analyst have to reimburse Tefft for Tefft's legal costs?
Hurray for Teftt.
Put him in charge of Homeland Security.
This is great, I knew there were people like him in law enforcement. I couldn’t believe what I was reading about the authorities unilaterally caving to the islamists. At first I was worried that they would use our courts to exploit us but now I realize that it is they who the courts will unmask. This isn’t Sharia court and since everything he and others are saying can be backed up through Islamic text and video taped speeches of leading islamists they are the ones in trouble. They have started proceedings against a number of people and groups but have they ever actually gone through with them? I think they will soon realize that the courts are their ideologies worst enemy and quit the legal jihad and resort to more nefarious tactics. They will still use the law as a sword but only being waved around in the air. Until they can refute what this man says and prove him wrong they are only trying to get him to stop what he is doing through legal intimidation and financial extortion through legal fees. Since they have no facts they the court is the last place they need to be. This man like all the others needs our support they are on the front lines of the cold jihad against America.
"muslim analyst" - isn't that an oxymoron ?
More from the WND story:
Dr. Bruce Tefft's legal defense fund site is here. Here's relevant material from the site:
If you have questions, at the site there is an email link you can use to contact the trustee of the defense fund.
Can a DEVOUT Muslim be a good American?
Theologically - no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon god of Arabia.
Religiously - no. Because no other religion is accepted by his Allah except Islam (Quran, 2:256)
Scripturally - no. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam and the Quran (Koran).
Geographically - no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.
Socially - no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.
Politically - no. Because he must submit to the mullah (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and Destruction of America, the great Satan.
Domestically - no. Because he is instructed to marry four women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34).
Intellectually - no. Because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Freedom of Religion and Tolerance...principles Islam believes to be corrupt.
Philosophically - no. Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.
Spiritually - no. Because Allah is NEVER referred to as heavenly father, nor is he ever described as "loving" in The Quran.
Therefore after much study and deliberation....perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both "good" Muslims and good Americans.
Someone needs to check the background of the nyc analysts
What an outrage! That a respectable contributor to law enforcement is being held hostage by the legal system of the free world. For what! Because the feelings of one Muslim were hurt! Are we going to sacrifice the free world to spare the feelings of individuals! Well let me tell you something! Muslims have done more than hurt feelings around the world in the past century: they have destroyed communities, trampled to the ground ancient peaceful civilizations, and massacred tens of millions.
You can view Muslims as invaders in all respects, which I certainly do. There is no insurance policy that guarantees our countries will not become another Lebanon or Malaysia. Muslims come with a disclaimer that says they will remain loyal to Islam, no matter how peaceful or friendly they may seem.
Maazel said the analyst's family in Egypt could be harmed if the nature of his work were revealed.
Would anyone have known the man existed if he hadn't filed the lawsuit?
Who is revealing the nature of his work except this man? He helped to form the Cyber Unit. He knows he's on a mailing list, that's all. He can delete the e-mail or unsubscribe.
He's been with the NYPD Intelligence since 1998, well before 9/11. If 9/11 aftermath didn't bother him, this e-mail list does?
If his work can cause harm to his family there is one obvious course of action: resign and go home to Egypt. He should remove himself from this hateful environment.
sheik yer mami - I hope you have Can a DEVOUT Muslim be a good American? posted in a conspicuous place on your site. That sums it up very well for those persons who have a foot in each place...
DrMack, you said:
Don't get sucker-punched into the "anti-Arab" stuff -- this is not about Arabs, it's about Muslims. There are Arab Christians, Arab Jews, even some Arab Hindus, and none of those groups were hijackers on 9/11. If you buy into Niall Stanage's false assumption that this is a racial thing, then we'll lose, and should lose.
The right criticism of the quote from Niall Stanage is to point out that this has nothing to do with "race" or "Arab." It has to do with Islam, a totalitarian religion that includes adherents from all races, including lily white.
I'd rather have an Arab non-Muslim or non-Muslim black beauty Hirsi Ali as a neighbor any day over a white Muslim.
I wrote this comparison up when Rep. Ellison took the oath of office on Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an to demonstrate the Qur'an is diametrically opposed and contradictory to priniciples found in the US Constitution and its Amendments:
http://a-plague-on-both-houses.blogspot.com/2007/06/one-cannot-serve-two-masters.html
This is why mohammedans shouldn't be allowed to work in any government service agency, especially those agencies that are concerned with the security of our nation. Taqiyya is their weapon, lying to the kafir is their duty. We can't sort out who is a cultural mohammedan from the jihadi so let the number be zero.
Maazel said the analyst's family in Egypt could be harmed if the nature of his work were revealed.
Precisely. That proves Bruce Tefft's case.
The swearing on the koran illustrates sheik yer’ mami’s post completly. When you take an oath such as when joining the US military you stand up hold your hand up and swear to protect and defend the Constitution, etc,etc. When taking office in the USA if you were to put your hand on and swear to anything it would be the Constitution, not the Bible not the koran not even Wont you put me in the Zoo. So Ellisons gesture was nothing more than an inspirational photo op for the rest of the umma’s consumption. The message, look, look, look at me I am swearing on the koran in the USA and someday inshallah we all will be. The umma knows nothing or cares nothing about the fakery behind the whole event it is the inspirational gesture that counts. The Islamic states of America, swearing in on the koran and all that goes with it is his message to them and we better listen as well.
If the e-mails were truly insulting and disparaging, perhaps he'd have a case. Doesn't look like it, though.
There's that "h" word again: "humiliating".
Since when did anyone have the legal right not to feel insulted, humiliated, embarrassed or rejected?
He could have opted out of receiving the emails and he didn't.
Islam is not a religion...it's a form of government custom made for a dictator.
So...he gets sued for calling a spade a spade.
Yep, durkas are getting desperate by these clear and unmistakable acts of frivolous foolishness-it's also another clear and unmistakable sign how they're using our own system against us...the very same system they seek to destroy, which they even admit to.
Our Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Tefft, like Robert, Hugh and others, have acquired their attitudes because they have taken the trouble to bend down, lift up the rock, and peer under it.
Maazel said the analyst's family in Egypt could be harmed if the nature of his work were revealed.
Precisely. That proves Bruce Tefft's case.
Posted by: DP111 [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 9, 2007 5:23 PM
Brilliant comment!
STOP HIRING MUSLIMS!
The man is not a terrorist expert. No offense to prison guards here in NY, but it does not require a Ph.D. He is probably just a translator who, because his job is browsing the internet, received the moniker - analyst. He just may be as ignorant about the Koran as he appears. Didn't he state that he was only familiar with what his imam had spoken of? It sounds as if he has never read the Koran himself. In that case, if his only introduction to the negative side of Islam is through Westerner's perceptions, he probably has a legitimate beef and just needs to be further educated.
While I wasn't sued for railing on Islam, I was banned from a political message board earlier this week for doing nothing more than calling radical Islam what it actually advertises itself to be. For doing this, I was called a "racist" and when called this for a long time, right or wrong, eventually a moderator is going to act in the name of the ignorant.
I was banned because I constantly question "moderate" Islam who is deafeningly silent and never opposes its radical brothers; it in fact is a tremendous source of $$support$$, serves willingly as human shields, permits the radicals to live amongst them in perfect camoflauge and who says/does nothing to condemn the radicals. On this message board I always labeled "moderate" Muslims who did/said nothing in opposition as the silently complicit in radical Islam's evil doings. For this I was similarly called a "racist."
The typically uneducated and left of center fans are the ones who scream "racism" when we all know that calling Islam out for what it advertises itself to be is not about "race" or "creed."
It is about right versus wrong.
And for that I was banned because of the illogical perception that I was "rabidly attacking all Islam" and in so doing acting "racist."
I sent all the specific information to Robert Spencer, the website address, specific thread that would make anyone do flips. Although I am not the guy from NY who was indicted for flushing Qurans down toilets, I wonder if I could get away with calling my thousands of posts on that board: art.
Good to finally join in on this site with people who know the score, know the Quran and merely observe what it is Islam wants us all to know: they want us conquered, converted or dead just as their holy book compels and imams, clerics and mullahs preach and teach.
"Racist"!?! Nice argument to make, isn't it?
It's time to turn the label-game around on those silly liberal Americans who live with the blinders on and refuse to see the fascism that this particular religion intends to spread.
How do I get on this guy's email mailing list???
How do I get on this guy's email mailing list???
"...and stated that Muslim- and Arab-Americans were untrustworthy and could not reliably serve in law enforcement positions or handle sensitive data."
How true, how true....
Do you want a muslim cop protecting a jewish family from attackers? I dont.
You can find 'can a good muslim be a good American' on my site under the ISLAM link
Here:http://sheikyermami.com/2006/12/22/islam/
That's perfect Sheik. I am going to make copy's of that list and pin em up all over town. I bet some of the local liberals will follow me, and pull em down as fast as I put them up...thats good, it will keep them busy, and give them something to do besides rant about Bush. Besides maybe one or two will actually read the list. There are a few liberals here who can actually read....Thanx
To subscribe to Bruce's list go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grendelreport I post there occasionally as well
All you commentors are a bunch of obnoxious morons.
We are only at war with a tiny fraction of the Islamic world, but you would like to see us fight all of them? America's bravest and most steadfast allies in the War on Terror are Muslims. Do you have any right to smear them with your ignorant slanders?
They're on the front line and dying at a far greater rate than America's own people. If the US loses in Iraq and Afghanistan, Western interests will be damaged, but America's Muslim allies and their families will all die brutal deaths, and you want to classify all Muslims as enemies!!??
How about if during the Cold War, America had declared war on every other country in the Free Word -- Britain, France, Canada, Australia, West Germany, Japan, Korea, India, Mexico... After all, all these countries had some element of state socialism in their political systems, and presumably they all had active Communist parties -- they must have been enemies, according to the logic of this comment board.
Repeatedly we have heard how difficult it has been for intelligence and law enforcement to recruit Arab speakers, and you're all yeehawing about some meatheaded bigot who is making working conditions unbearable for one of the few such analysts there are. Sheesh, why not just smash up a few dozen military installations -- you'd be doing less harm to the war effort.
Obnoxious and ignorant bigots such as yourselves are traitors to the cause of freedom every bit as bad as Ted Kennedy and Cindy Sheehan. You should be ashamed, but sadly I doubt you will.
James Martel, you need to wake up and smell the coffee!! Tefft is right in everything he says. He does not hate Muslims he is only stating what is true fact. You need to read the book by Brigitte Gabriel- "Because they Hate". Maybe this will open your eyes. People like you will be the demise of this country and every other non-muslim existence.