It’s true. The NYPD dismantled the Demographics Unit in 2014, after Linda Sarsour led a campaign complaining that it was “Islamophobic.” And now we see where that leads.
Get the full story of the consequences of this demonization of counterterror efforts in my new book Confessions of an Islamophobe. Preorder here now.
“NYPD Monitored Terrorist’s Mosque, But Sarsour Convinced Them To Stop,” by Ken Webster, Jr., KRPC, November 1, 2017:
Are you [old] enough to remember things that happened prior to 15 minutes ago? Oh, you are? Well, then you’re probably not a Democrat.
Back in 2014 the New York Police Department dropped a program that monitored potential suspects of Islamic extremism.
Created in 2005, the program was pretty cut and dry: plain clothed detectives were sent out to mosques and gathering places for Muslims to see if anyone was pushing extremist rhetoric on the community. While it might seem a bit intrusive, this happened in a city of 8.5 million people with as many as 800,000 Muslim residents in the greater metro area, many of whom are foreign born nationals. It’s also the same geographic location as the biggest Islamic terror attack in United States history.
Known as the Demographics Unit, the program seemed to make sense. After all, New York City has a history with Islamic extremism that resulted in thousands of people dying. But when liberal activists and special interest groups caught wind of it’s existence, it had to go.
In 2014 the New York Times reported that the Demographics Unit would no longer exist. They didn’t make this decision on their own. They were pressed into the move by a feminist Sharia Law advocate & liberal activist named Linda Sarour [sic]. You might remember Linda from the Women’s March in DC earlier this year. She’s part of the Arab American Association of New York. She also called for a Jihad against President Trump [her words, not mine]. And she really dislikes Israel [the only Jewish state on Earth].
Back in 2014 Sarsour said, “The Demographics Unit created psychological warfare in our community.” She didn’t offer any evidence to support that claim, but it sounded great when she said it so the New York Times enthusiastically published the quote. That’s when Sarsour met with high ranking members of the NYPD to advocate for the end of the Demographics Unit [which had renamed the Zone Assessment Unit in more recent years].
The department’s intelligence chief, John Miller, agreed with Sarsour that the division had to go. No more Demographics Unit.
Fast-forward to October 31, 2017. That’s when New York City terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov allegedly rented a truck from Home Depot and used it to kill 8 people and injure 11 as he mowed down pedestrians. He became an internationally known Islamic extremist. But his story didn’t start there.
Saipov happens to be a foreign-born Muslim from Uzbekistan. He first arrived in the US in 2010 in Ohio during the Obama-era. He got a green a card, he moved to New Jersey [after briefly spending time in Florida] and he worked as an Uber driver to support himself.
He also frequented a mosque in New Jersey. Lets talk about that mosque for just a moment, shall we?
The Omar Mosque in Paterson, N.J., located near the suspect’s home, is one of the many mosques in the New York metro area that was previously being studied by the NYPD. The location was believed by investigators to be a possible destination for, “budding terrorist conspiracies.” And it turns out those investigators were right. In fact, the mosque was being monitored by the NYPD going back as far as at least 2006. They knew about this place and the possibility that it might be the hang out destination for a potentially lethal terror suspect. Detectives believed someone at this mosque was capable of infiltrating a terror attack [and they were right].
There are some people who will hear this news and think, “it’s wrong to investigate innocent people.” I strongly disagree. Investigating people is called “detective work” and it’s what you’re supposed to do when you’re [get ready for this]… a detective. I realize it’s not politically correct [whatever that means] to profile people for criminal investigations, but unfortunately for members of the offense-industry, profiling actually works. It’s how detectives do their jobs. Like it or not, profiling is an essential part of investigating violent crimes. Serial killers tend to be single middle-class white men from the suburbs, cartel members tend to be Latino and ISIS inspired terrorists are typically [drum roll please] Muslims.
But because of people like Linda Sarsour, it’s now deemed racially insensitive [even though Islam isn’t a race] to profile people because they’re Muslims. I’m not saying Linda Sarsour is responsible for yesterday’s terror attack, but she certainly helped make it easier for Muslims terrorists in NYC to execute successful massacre-attempts on law abiding citizens….
Don McKellar says
There really is a tight nit circle of powerful Islamic appeasers and moslem deceivers behind all of this stuff. If they could be all publicly identified, their power taken away, and prevented from being able to doing more damage, the safety of citizens would increase dramatically. It’s a relatively small group of them.
Older Canadian says
You are right.
This article and your comment is on the mark.
mortimer says
De Blasio has made NYC less safe.
p bay says
de Blastio is a liberal liar
Dick says
We know that here in our UNITED STATES that are are approximately 7 to 10 training camps around being taught terrorism. We know it and do nothing about it? They are laughing at are stupidity, rubbing it in our face. DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!
BlueRaven says
100% on the ball observation and comments. We have more than 70% Americans who do not get it. So, it is not only Muslims who deceive these more than 70% sleepy Americans – I don’t think they could ever deceive any Jihadwatchers – they actually deceive our semi-alert politicians. If President Trump can’t get a handle on the problem, we have a very small chance to win against these misfits in the future.
Andy says
We are all sick and tired of these idiot traitors like Linda Sarsour.
F_K Linda Sarsour AND ALL MENTALLY DISORDERED LIBERALS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si0j27O-57Q
john vieira says
The ‘tight circle’ includes the ex president and his ‘loser’ protégée …the sold out for “thirty pieces of (Petro$) silver” mainstream media and sundry ‘establishment’ politicians who are marching to the tune of the ‘brotherhood’ …..
John Forbes says
WHY the COWARDICE IN DEALING WITH THIS ????
GET RID OF MAYORS LIKE THIS INSTANTLY !!!
LINDA SARSOUR IS A VERY PERSUASIVE & NASTY PERSON WHO ACTUALLY HATES THE US !
SEE IF TRUMP CAN GET HER A NICE PLACE IN GITMO WITH NO WINDOWS !!
Babak says
You are correct…Leftist allies appease the Islamist-Lites and Islamists wofk as the “Ghszis” of old. I wish that these organizations who have no loyalty to America become exposed. Follow the money…
TruthWFree says
The only way to solve these Islamic Killers Jihad is to outlaw Islam, close all mosques, execute any Islamic killer or plotter, and deport all associated with them including their families to an Islamic hell hole.
Roger says
As Winston Churchill once said and warned the World a long time ago..”Islam is as dangerous in a man as Rabies is in a Dog..We all know the only way to treat a Rabid Dog…These Bastards are all Wolves in sheep’s clothing…As I have said many times before..”You can always trust a moslem….To BE A MOSLEM..These ‘rabid dogs’ and their ‘sleepers’ should be shot at first recognition.
Inna Terry says
Great comment!
marble says
Under a previous administration, the NYPD had one of the best antiterrorism units in our countries. The Globalists are using Islam for their purposes.
gravenimage says
Yes–the NYPD was very good under Giuliani. Now, they have their hands tied.
p bay says
their toes are tied to their thumbs by de BLASTIO
Ron Blower says
“Are you enough to remember things that happened…”
Am I WHAT? “…enough to remember…”??
Smart? Conscious? Aware? Caring?
Anybody have an/any idea/iideas?
gravenimage says
That should be “old enough”–note the reference to time.
If you find a typo in a Jihad Watch story, just notify them, rather than sneering about it on the thread. That’s what I just did.
gravenimage says
I suppose it might also be something like “attentive enough”. We’ll soon see.
gravenimage says
Fixed.
Annie says
Old enough. By the way, it’s “an/any idea/ideas?” not, “an/any idea/iideas?” like you wrote. Human error, just like yours. Contact the author or site directly with a message and screen shot.
RichardL says
de Blasio had two great Commissioners. They both resigned. We all know why. De Blasio is a wicked Democrat/Totalitarian.
Melissa Levey says
No, De Blasio is an affirmed communist, and he hates law enforcement officers, as my son, a member of the NYPD, can attest to.
gravenimage says
I’m sorry your son is having to deal with this, Melissa. Things were *much* better under Giuliani.
AvantiBev says
His birth name is Warren Wilhelm Jr. He chose his mother’s maiden name to get Italian American votes and sadly, many of my fratelli were stupid enough to vote for this putrid piece of what comes out of a culo.
dumbledoresarmy says
I observe you are here at jihadwatch, educating yourself. And your son is serving in the NYPD. I hope that he is on the same page as you, as regards Islam? Does he listen, if you share with him what you have discovered?
Besides the jihad doctrine of Islam, which explains mohammedan aggression toward non-Musiims, cops need to know about mohammedan deception – that Muslims lie, deceive, use doublespeak, play victim, routinely. That Muslims are BS artists extraordinaire. any cop who has dealings with a mohammedan should have their dashcam/ bodycam turned on during the interaction, as a matter of course, in case of muslim screamings of ‘police brutality’.
Cops also need to know about the ‘strong horse’ principle: that the bully-mind of Islam buckles when confronted with superior force. Along with that: cops need to know about the mohammedan insta-mob. This is why Aussie cops in Sydney or Melbourne, when going into search mohammedan premises, or to arrest a mohammedan suspect, tend to use a display of force majeure: the dog squad, large number of heavily-armed cops, and usually a couple of copters and/ or the riot squad is on-call close by.
A further point: dealing with mohammedans is like dealing with the mafia or any other organised crime syndicate. That is: they’re not supposed to ‘rat out’ a fellow Muslim to the dirty infidels. So cops need to be very wary about anything a mohammedan tells them.
And finally: in the case of ANY mysterious death or disappearance of a mohammedan female aged 10-50, investigators should *always* bear in mind the high probability that the female’s *own family* have done away with her in an ‘honour’ murder or family execution; and that if that is the case, odds are good that the *entire extended family* are complicit.
Paul N Silas says
I say that we set up a grudge match between this twit in a rag and Pam Geller!
Send her to Allah Pam
common sense says
Push for bull dozing mosques. If we come up just short of that most likely we will at least be able to prevent murderers from roaming wild and free. Muslims know everyone in their circle.
Islam must be made to know our (law enforcement) finger is on trigger and we shouldn’t be talking about anyone’s precious romper room feelings anymore.
MFritz says
Linda “islam’s hands are always clean as long as you don’t watch them” Sarsour.
StacyGirl says
Trump alone cannot fix this. His stance on chain migration is correct. Muslims are allowed to emigrate— people who have few skills and need immediate assistance— and the we allow their entire family. The docile ones give cover to the “lone wolves” as Rush Limbaugh just asserted. This country is crawling with these animals and they need to be deported , denied asylum or sent to GITMO.
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
The true evil reveals itself at last.
Kay says
Yes, but to many or most Americans, it is still out of focus . . . an isolated incident here and there . . . nothing they can see a pattern in.
gravenimage says
All too true.
R Russell says
She’s one dangerous lady. Please keep her on your side of the pond
gravenimage says
*What*? I don’t want her *anywhere* in the West.
And your idea that your side of the pond is free from Jihad terror is *very much mistaken*. Have you failed to watch the news over the past decade?
Allan Mandrowski says
Unbelievable. This makes her complicit in the murder of these innocent people! I sure hope this gets investigated and as such she gets arrested for the wilful obstruction of Homeland Security.
Voytek Gagalka says
Knowledge of history is not welcome in leftists (and Islam-pandering) circles. Leftists believe in progress of “historical materialism” and that “history is on their side,” while Mohammedans do not believe in anything beyond mantra of memorized verses from Qur’an and their “destiny” to rule the world, inshallah.
gravenimage says
The only history Muslims care about is their record of having conquered Infidels, and their “grievances” over some Infidels having resisted conquest or having taken their lands back.
eduardo odraude says
DeBlasio hugging the cockroach lady. How fitting!
JawsV says
De Blasio loves him a hijab!
Guest says
Linda is conspiring with terrorists. How shocking
Tom says
As is done in Switzerland, those imams giving sermons in mosques must be monitored and forced to preach in the native language of the host country, in this case English. So that authorities are aware of any radical sermons that are given.
Mosques must be forced to prevent any radical imams from visiting and to rid the mosque of radical literature.
Inspections of mosques by police is a must and without prior notification.
Yes these measures are drastic, but given that many of the radicalized terrorists come through the mosques, such tactics are warranted until the Muslim community steps up and shows the rest of society that they are willing to identify radical members to authorities.
gravenimage says
Not drastic at all.
In fact, I’d prefer we have no Muslims coming in at all.
Tom says
You know that is never going to happen so we have to learn to manage the threat.
M says
Nothing you suggested is drastic given the threat radical Islam poses.
dumbledoresarmy says
“…to rid the mosque of radical literature.”
WELL, that means the Quran, Sira and Hadiths and all the tomes and tomes of orthodox mohammedan jurists and ‘theologians’ will have to be piled into skips and taken off to the city dump…
Georg says
I wonder if dismantling the Demographics Unit was part of “her jihad”.
gravenimage says
Yes–as is her pretending to be a “feminist”.
Georg says
Right. Another whopper we’re expected to take sitting down. So sick of playing on their terms all the time. A comedian, Nick Di Paolo, said on his radio show yesterday it’s like we’re playing football against a team who’s allowed to run out of bounds and all kinds of things and we have to follow the rules.
Rose says
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Walter Sieruk says
The god of Islam likes it when non-Muslims [Kafirs] die .as yesterday in the Islamic terror attack ,yesterday ,in NYC.. The television Imam Suliman Satari said “Annihilate the Infidels… Allah counts them and kill them, to the last one and don’t leave even one.” Furthermore Imam Abu Hamza Al-Masri said “What makes Allah happy? Allah is happy when Kafiers get killed. [1]
. The above words of these Imams reflect the example of Islam’s prophet and the teachings of the Quran. “Muhammad now fell upon them [the Jews] slew all the men, nine hundred of them…”[2]
Moreover, the Quran reads “When ye encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads, until ye have made great slaughter among them. Verily if Allah pleased, He could take vengeance on them without your assistance, but He commandeth you to fight His Battles.” 47:4
In short, these Imams and their murderous prophet with their bloody Quran show the world what Islam really is. After all, Jesus did teach “by their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. [NKJV]
[1] The disc documentary OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM’s AGAINST THE WEST
[2] THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: THE WHOLE STORY OF MAN by H.G. Wells
Walter Sieruk says
There is much talk about rooting out the ideology of Islamic terrorism. What is not mentioned is that the foundation of this type of terrorism is the theology of Islam’s “holy book” the Quran. For the Quran instructs in the uses of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As found in, for example, 2:191. 5:33. 9:5, 111.123. 47:4. Therefore Islam is a false ,dangerous and deadly religion.
Walter Sieruk says
That jihadist /Muslim whose last name means “The Sword of Allah” who murdered eight people and injured eleven other people in New York City was following the instruction of the “holy book” of Islam, the Quran. For example, the Quran instructs in 9:123 . “O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you…” Maiming and murdering people who are non-Muslim in a jihad truck attack as the jihadist did is a very effective way show non-Muslims “Harshness.” Strange teachings for what some call a “peaceful religion.” Likewise the Quran teaches in 47:4 “When you encounter the disbeliever’s strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”A truck jihad attack can, for sure, make a greater “slaughter among them than a sword can.” As the Quran also instructs in 2:191. “Kill the disbeliever wherever we find them.”
All the while that jihadist was committing mass murder he was yelling out “Allah Akbar’ meaning “Allah is great” Islam is a false dangerous and deadly religion.
gravenimage says
Just one small point, Walter–that is the meaning of his first name, not his last.
JawsV says
“Allahu akbar” means “Allah is greater.”
tired vet says
When a Catholic expresses devotion they may perform one of the seven acts of spiritual mercy, and when a Protestant expresses devotion, they may provide a witness for their faith to strangers on the street, and when a Jew expresses devotion they may recite of the many Hebrew benedictions of thanksgiving.
For the Muslim Jihadi, however, ramming trucks through crowds of infidels is…for them…ultimately…an act of devotion.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
“Good works” means something *very* different in Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
The murderous Muslim terrorist is a name whose last name means “The swords of Allah, this vicious jihadist who murdered rand maimed all those people in New York City is a man who is a foreigner and entered the USA by a “Diversity Visa” This exposes the dangers, folly and foolishness of such PC Diversity programs.
The need for a national travel ban concerning all those unvetted Muslim migrants who desire to enter the United States of America is very important. This may be yet better explained by one of the fables of Aesop which is entitled THE FARMER AND THE VIPER. So here it is “Once in ancient Greece there was a farmer outside on a very cold winter day walking in if field to make sure that everything is in order and as it should be. The farmer came upon a half-froze viper about to die from the bitter cold. The kind yet foolish farmer took pity on the viper and in an action of kindness put it his is vest jacket to warms and up and thus save its life. The viper warned up revived and then bit farmer through the vest jacket. So the kind but foolish farmer died a slow painful death in awful agony because he felt sorry of the viper and saved it life.” The point to this fable is the no amount of kindness will chance an evil and dangerous nature.
So it may be with those many Muslim immigrants who want to enter the USA. It only takes of few jihadist/vipers inflect jihad terrorism of awful murderous disaster on different cities of this nation.
JawsV says
His FIRST name “Sayfullo” means “Sword of Allah.”
Walter Sieruk says
The jihadist’s attacks in Western nations be the Muslim terrorists as seen in that such vicious malicious and murderous jihad attacks with the heinous Islamic intention of inflecting “great slaughter” occur in the cities of the West. Such cities as New York City, Manchester, London, Barcelona, Stockholm, Brussels, Stockholm, Paris, Nice, Berlin, Madrid and so forth. Those jihad-minded Muslim terrorists who engage in those vicious Islamic terror attacks cannot be and will not be reasoned with. They will not respond to either logic or reason. They aren’t interested, at all, in reason or logic. So they have to be dealt with by a strong force of might. Either by the police or the military. For to even try to reason with a jihad-minded Muslim terrorist is just as much an act of futility as trying to teach algebra to a rabbit.
gravenimage says
NYPD monitored jihad murderer Saipov’s mosque until Linda Sarsour convinced them to stop
……………………..
I knew this evil b*tch had blood on her hands. This might have prevented this Jihad terror attack.
And what of the dhimmi tools who let themselves be pressured into backing off the monitoring? More blood…
DRHazard says
Linda Sarsour does not care about human life. She only cares that people bow down to her personal identification as a proud hijab wearing girl from Brooklyn. And the non-Muslims who give in to her stupidity care more about their self-image than human lives. But it’s all authentic Islam; Muslims are superior to everyone else and if non-Muslims don’t submit to Islam then Allah wants a good Muslim to kill or enslave them. Linda knows it, but being a liar she will never say so.
So politicians and activists willingly enter the ideological insane asylum called Islam and then guilt trip political officials into condemning the rest of us into living with it’s psychotic rules.
abad says
Moslems, like the liberal elite, are never to be trusted. When I say never, I mean never.
Second, Trump was 100% right in saying we need to get rid of that diversity immigration program. We do not want any more Ishnaqistanis coming to the United States.
Third – all mosques on our soil need to be monitored, regardless of what Linda Cockroach or CAIR says.
And deport that Roach, she is NOT an American.
utis says
If America still had a free press plus truly intrepid, dedicated journalists, we’d know everything about this fifth columnist: from the brand of disposable diapers her mom made her wear up to what jihadis she hangs with, and who pays her to pontificate.
Rolf Wittwer says
Ths incredible never ending mendacity in Islam can never be surpassed!!!!!
Ren says
Linda Sarsour? The foolish Muslim and Islam apologist pretending to fight for the cause of women and Palestine?
gravenimage says
Alas, she is not foolish–just grotesquely dishonest.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Those who aid and abet are the real enemies.
mortimer says
When I saw that nauseating picture, I thought: “The Traitor and the Dhimmi”.
Sarah says
I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can open up another article, from anywhere anymore, that has anything to do with that vile excrement, Sarsour.
Just seeing her photo at the beginning – it launches my blood pressure through the roof.
Robert_K says
Linda Sarsour
@lsarsour
Every believing Muslim says Allahu Akbar every day during prayers. We cannot criminalize “God is great.” Prosecute the criminal not a faith.
i.e. Let the Muslim commit the crime, and then prosecute him.
Dennis says
It’s a cult bro. Read the Koran
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Would this be an inopportune moment to mention that sarsour means cockroach in Arabic? De Blasio ain’t looking too good right now, but if the jihad mass murder was not inspired by Islam, then the fact that Sayfullo attended a mosque for which Bill ordered surveillance ended is a pure coincidence. So he’s ok and can continue his quest for the Senate.