Suit against NYPD asks that surveillance of Muslims based on faith be declared unconstitutional

Islamic jihadists murder and terrorize other people based on their faith, but it is not permissible for Infidel authorities to take that into account. By actions like this one, Islamic supremacists in the U.S. are determined to end all effective resistance to their jihad.

More on this story. "Suit against NYPD asks that surveillance of Muslims based on faith be declared unconstitutional," by James Queally for The Star-Ledger, June 6 (thanks to Benedict):

NEWARK — The New York Police Department's years-long surveillance of Muslim businesses and mosques throughout the Northeast denigrated the Islamic faith and violated the constitutional rights of countless Muslim-Americans, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Newark today.

The suit, which is the first legal challenge of the NYPD's spy operations, could mark the beginning of a historical movement, said Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates, the civil rights group filing the suit on behalf of several New Jersey residents.

"This lawsuit is perhaps the most important legal challenge brought to date by American Muslims," Khera said.

The eight plaintiffs are all Muslims from New Jersey and include a U.S. Army reservist, a Newark business owner who served in Vietnam and the imams of several mosques who were targeted by the NYPD Surveillance and Demographics unit.

The suit is calling for a "declaratory judgment" which labels specific surveillance of Muslims based on faith unconstitutional, said Glenn Katon, the legal director for Muslim Advocates.

Katon is also seeking a court order prohibiting the NYPD from future surveillance of Muslims based on faith and the destruction of all records compiled by the NYPD during its spy operations.

"When the NYPD says all Muslims are suspects we have a clear case of government denigrating religion," Katon said.

The OIC is trying to pressure Western countries to criminalize "denigration of religion."

Katon said that while the lawsuit is focused on New Jersey residents, further legal action could involve New York residents as well.

Muslim Advocates considered including Newark police in the lawsuit, but ultimately there were too many conflicting reports about the extent of their involvement in NYPD operations in New Jersey.

All eight plaintiffs were New Jersey residents that were in one way or another watched during NYPD's operations including at least two members of Rutgers' Muslim Student Association.

In the month since the Associated Press released a 50-page document detailing the NYPD's actions in Newark, several Muslim leaders in New Jersey have spoken out on the ways the report has had a "chilling effect" on the Muslim community.

"This is a blanket victimization of a suspect class," said specialist Farhaj Hassan, a U.S. Army reservist and one of the plaintiffs. "I think this is what the pilgrims crossed the ocean to avoid."

The suit comes two weeks after State Attorney Jeffrey Chiesa announced the completion of a three-month review into the NYPD's actions in New Jersey. His office found New York investigators did nothing wrong or criminal, leaving many Muslim leaders in New Jersey to feel like the lawsuit was a last resort to vindicate themselves.

"They don't have the right to spy and do surveillance on innocent people, on good citizens," said Newark Imam Abdul Kareem Muhammad'

The NYPD could not be reached for comment immediately, but on Tuesday NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Paul Browne said, "I refer you to the New Jersey AG’s report and to the fact that NYPD activities in New Jersey were lawful, appropriate and in keeping with efforts there, in New York, and around the world to prevent terrorists from returning here to kill more New Yorkers."

Indeed.

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To be fair and impartial Governor Chris Christie will work to have the case go to his recent appointment on the state bench. No doubt that Muslim-American Sohail Mohammed who Christie has great faith in, what with the governor stating this Sharia business is just plain crap, will have the wisdom to ensure Mohammed gets the case.

To be fair and impartial Governor Chris Christie will work to have the case go to his recent appointment on the state bench. No doubt that Muslim-American Sohail Mohammed who Christie has great faith in, what with the governor stating this Sharia business is just plain crap, will have the wisdom to ensure Mohammed gets the case.

We're so screwed!

We are totally infiltrated on all levels. Just look at this:

The Obama-Holder crew is complicit. What do we really know about Holder? Which mosque does he go to?

Members of the House Judiciary Committee on oversight on Thursday called on U.S. Attorney General to provide documents and evidence relating to the landmark Holy Land Foundation trial – the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history.

The committee made a nearly identical request more than a year ago, however, the documents were never made available by Holder or his department, lawmakers say.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/eric-holder-ducks-congresss-questions-about-massive-terrorism-financing-trial/

The answer it that these mosques are under surveillance not because they're Moslem, but because they are suspected affiliates of, or supporters of, or recruiting centers for, or financial abettors of, terrorist organizations. It just so happens that these terrorist organizations are all Islamic.
If the Elks, the Oddfellows, or the Masons had a proven history of supporting or supplying terrorists, then I think no one would have any objections to some of their lodges being under surveillance.

Oops, my comment should begin "The answer is ..."

"When the NYPD says all Muslims are suspects we have a clear case of government denigrating religion,"
Dear Mr. Katon welcome to this country I hope you enjoy our culture.
Let me give you a quick lesson on reality:
If a crime under investigation was committed by a white man then ALL white men without alibis are POTENTIAL suspects
If the crime under investigation is regarding the Italian Mafia then all Italians are POTENTIAL suspects.
If a series of crimes in a particular neighborhood have been ALL perpetrated by red-haired, left-handed lesbians then ALL RED-HAIRED, LEFT-HANDED LESBIANS are potential suspects until it is found that they have alibis.
The difference between this system and the systems you are no doubt used to is that in OUR system to be a potential suspect is not the same as being the selected scapegoat of your authoritarian government.

Western civilisation has one thing in common with every civilisation that has gone before, that we believe we are a permanent fixture and robust enough to willingly sacrifice freedoms and values that countless others have died for.

Jihadwatch is a voice in the wind. Its followers are exceptional and do not share the enforced ignorance of our leaders and media.

But as long as high falutin Western values and principles demand that we defend the rights of those that are ideologically motivated to undermine and ultimately destroy our values and principles and way of life, it is fair and reasonable to suggest that democracy stands zero chance against the gathering tsunami of Islam.

Our leaders and the media may inflate minor victories like an unenforceable burqa or minaret ban, and an occasional oped may even dare to call Islamic terror Islamic terror, or an honour killing what it is, and these allow the unthinking and often uninformed masses to sleep soundly at night. Fools and politicians even argue the importance of holding the high moral ground, on the premise that otherwise 'we' become no better than 'them', though there is nothing moral about surrendering the very essence of Western civilisation in order to remain moral.

As the most advanced civilisation in history our choices are stark, uncompromising, and surprisingly simple; get off our knees on the high moral ground and set aside democratic niceties to effectively address the threats posed by the dysfunctional ideology of Islam, or stop the pretence and concede that there is no god but Allah and Mohamed is his messenger. Whatever our choice, and the decision appears to have been made at the highest levels of society and government, we should stop trumpeting about the virtues of complacency and cowardice.

Sorry, but facts are facts, and regardless of the fact that they are sometimes unpalatable.

Suit against NYPD asks that surveillance of Muslims based on faith be declared unconstitutional
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Does it matter that they are murdering us *based on faith*?

No, I didn't think so...

More:

"When the NYPD says all Muslims are suspects we have a clear case of government denigrating religion," Katon said.

The OIC is trying to pressure Western countries to criminalize "denigration of religion."
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That's right. And then we will be more hamstrung than ever...

And here's Farhana Khera, condemning the FBI for teaching even part of the truth about Islam:

"Senators Blast FBI Terror-Training ‘Lies’"

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/tag/farhana-khera/

The NYPD is not denigrating religion. Islam is denigrating religion by being a supremacist, misogynist, violent, intolerant, primitive, brutal, death-worshiping, totalitarian genocidal political belief system, while calling itself a "religion".

Criminals Against Crime, also known as CAIR...Allah founded it in order to eliminate the competition...

if it has been observed that alligators keep on crawling out of a swamp, the alligator hunters won't bother setting up hides next to the municipal swimming pools in town.

They will set up their hides next to the swamp, and they will patrol it regularly in a tinnie, and fly over it at intervals in a helicopter.

NYPD has figured out that the allahgators (jihadis) emerge from the swamp (the Ummah) with depressing regularity and predictability, and they are therefore devoting a whole lotta attention to watching the swamp for allahgators.

Pursuant to my posting above, and to alter the metaphor a little:

the Ummah, or Mohammedan Mob, is the sheltering sea within which the Jihadists swim and from which, ceaselessly, they emerge. And the larger and the more powerful and confident that Ummah or Mohammedan Mob is in any suburb, district, city, province, state, nation or region of the world, the more numerous and violent will be the jihadists and the more dangerous life will become for all non-Muslims in the vicinity.

This is something that all non-Muslim military, police, emergency service personnel, diplomats, journalists, and politicians - especially politicians whose portfolio comprises immigration and foreign affairs - need to understand.

the SILLY Liberwails are undermining this country. Their support of CAir and the Mudslime Jihadists is a form of suicide. Too bad they just don't use poison. Its' quicker and doesn't involve the rest of us!
As Einstein said: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GENIUS AND STUPIDITY IS; GENIUS HAS LIMITS"!

Here is the key to this issue - the article provides a quote:
"When the NYPD says all Muslims are suspects we have a clear case of government denigrating religion," Katon said.

Someone needs to sue the Muslims to remove their categorization as a legal religion in the US, which would remove all the related tax benefits, allowing them to practice their "religion" in schools, dress differently than school uniform policies, etc.

The case would have to go to the Supreme Court. I once looked up Supreme Court & religion, and it seems there is a legal theory that a religion is not a legal religion if it has no beneficial public interest. Thus, I think you can make a case to deny Islam being defined as a legal US religion due to what it's Koran says, the practices of other Muslims in Egypt, etc that follow the same book, the violence, bombings, stoning of women, use of Madrassahs to educate children to plan Jihad, etc. if you show they are following the same teachings, have not created a reform movement with a REVISED Koran removing all the harmful provisions, and others who follow those teaching act more like a medieval violent cult, they could be denied US religious classification. Kinda like denying a political candidate eligibility because they are a Felon.

There would be a big trial like the Nuremberg trials, but I think it could be done (I am not an attorney). It surely would slow them down if similar cases went through several State courts first.

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