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NJ Muslims Angry After NYPD Surveillance Findings

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 05.25.2012

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TRENTON, N.J. -- Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found t...

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Will NJ AG Go After NYPD For Spying On Muslims?

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 05.22.2012

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NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey Muslim leaders who attended a March meeting with the state's attorney general say they've been invited back this week for a...

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Obama Adviser Praises NYPD For Spying On Muslims, College Students

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 04.20.2012

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NEW YORK — President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser praised the New York Police Department's work Friday, saying the agency has str...

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PHOTO: Mosque Uses NYPD Surveillance In New Ad

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 04.05.2012

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NEWARK, N.J. — The leader of a New Jersey mosque that was listed in a secret NYPD surveillance report is using the incident to try and recruit n...

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Liberal Groups Decry NYPD Spying On Liberal Groups

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.29.2012

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NEW YORK -- A coalition of politicians and civil rights activists criticized the New York Police Department on Wednesday for monitoring political grou...

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We Are All Muslims: A Sikh Response To Islamophobia In The NYPD And Beyond

Sonny Singh | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Sikhism, Hate Crimes, Muslim Americans, Nypd Spying, Nypd Demographics Unit, Sikh Americans, Religious Tolerance, Interfaith, Nypd, Religion News

What is it going to take for Sikhs and Muslims to join together in solidarity against the common enemies of racist harassment and violence, racial and religious profiling, and Islamophobic bigotry?

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New Docs Reveal NYPD Focused Specifically On Muslims

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.09.2012

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NEW YORK — The New York Police Department collected information on businesses owned by second- and third-generation Americans specifically becau...

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Did NYPD Spying On Muslims Violate The Law?

ProPublica | Justin Elliott | Posted 02.29.2012

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Last August, the Associated Press launched a series detailing how the New York Police Department has extensively investigated Muslims in New York an...

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DOUBLING DOWN

AP | By DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 02.25.2012

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NEW YORK -- New York's mayor served notice Friday that his police department will do everything in its power to root out terrorists in the U.S., even ...

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NYPD: Newark Police Knew We Were Spying On Muslims

AP | By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS | Posted 02.24.2012

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NEW YORK -- Officials in three states traded accusations over who knew what about a secret 2007 New York Police Department operation that monitored an...

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Commissioner Kelly Admits Involvement With 'The Third Jihad'

Posted 02.02.2012

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NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly admitted through a top aide Tuesday that he cooperated with filmmakers of "The Third Jihad"-- a radical anti-Muslim movie,...

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WATCH: NYPD Cops Training Included This Anti-Muslim Movie

| Posted 01.24.2012

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By Sonja Sharp MANHATTAN -- A movie about radical Islam was shown to nearly 1,500 NYPD recruits for up to a year of their training, The New York Ti...

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Muslims Boycott Bloomberg's Breakfast

AP | Posted 02.28.2012

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NEW YORK — Several Muslim leaders have declined invitations to the mayor's annual year-end interfaith breakfast, saying they're upset at police ...

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The NYPD Scandals Of 2011

Posted 12.28.2011

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As tragically demonstrated by the shooting death of Peter Figoski this month, most cops are heroes willing to risk their lives to save the lives of st...

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34 Congress Members Call For NYPD-CIA Probe

AP | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- More than two dozen members of Congress are calling for investigation into the CIA's relationship with the New York Police Department. ...

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Peter King's Muslim Hysteria

Wilfredo Amr Ruiz | Posted 01.25.2012

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Peter King's targeting of the Muslim community is wrong and should cease swiftly. His attitude damages not only the Muslim community but all minority communities.

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We Must Reform the NYPD Intelligence/Surveillance Program to Preserve Civil Liberties and Public Safety

Brad Lander | Posted 01.21.2012

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Because the NYPD has decided NYC requires an intelligence-gathering division on par with federal intelligence agencies, the City also needs a framework for appropriate oversight that is on par with the federal level.

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The NYPD's Post-9/11 Tradeoff: Security Vs. Civil Liberties

AP | By DAVID CRARY | Posted 01.19.2012

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NEW YORK -- In the early months after the 9/11 terror attacks, America's visceral reaction was to gird for a relentless, whatever-it-takes quest to pu...

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Angry Over Spying, Muslims Say 'Don't Call NYPD'

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 01.14.2012

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NEW YORK — Fed up with a decade of police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging ...

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NYPD Intel Unit Caused Muslim Businesses To Close

AP | By CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 01.08.2012

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NEW YORK -- Even before it showed up in a secret police report, everybody in Bay Ridge knew that Mousa Ahmad's cafe was being watched. Strangers loit...

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City Council Powerless To Check NYPD Spy Unit

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS and MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.07.2011

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NEW YORK — Nobody in New York government has the expertise and authority to oversee the police department's secret intelligence operations, a le...

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NYPD's Anti-Terror Surveillance Not Unfair To Muslims: Bloomberg

Yahoo! News | SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 11.08.2011

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