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What’s More Important: Political Correctness or Your Safety?

Posted by: Rob @ 9:10 pm in War On Terror

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Islamic advocacy groups have forced the LAPD’s counterterrorism branch to back down.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A police plan to map out Muslim
communities, a proposal that civil rights groups sharply criticized as
racial and religious profiling, has been shelved, a police spokeswoman
said Wednesday.

The LAPD planned to have its counterterrorism bureau identify Muslim
enclaves to determine which might be likely to become isolated and
susceptible to “violent, ideologically based extremism.”

Several Muslim groups and the American Civil Liberties Union of
Southern California criticized the plan and sent a letter to Deputy
Chief Michael P. Downing expressing their concerns.

“There was a clear message from the Muslim community that they were
not comfortable with it. So we listened,” said Mary Grady, spokeswoman
for the Los Angeles Police Department. She couldn’t immediately say
when the plan might resume. Grady said the remaining part of the
initiative, which includes outreach efforts to strengthen ties with
Muslim communities, would continue, and police planned to meet with
Muslim leaders Thursday.

In a statement, Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, praised the
decision. “I am glad to hear (Downing) is putting the plan aside,”
Al-Marayati said. “All Muslim organizations are united in purpose to
defend the rights of Muslim Americans while developing a positive and
constructive relationship with the LAPD.”

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Well, terrorists and enemies of America, you know where you can hide now. Not only are the police backing down, but it sounds they are following the tried and true liberal method of combating terrorism, denial and appeasement.

Let me ask you, if there was a rash of gang violence due to MS-13, would it not be sensible to know where illegal, oh sorry, undocumented workers, are living in your city? Well, if Al Qaeda was planning an attack at a mall, (news flash, they are) where do you think they will hide? It won’t be in the city’s Jewish community.

Like 9-11, when the next attack comes, we will have only ourselves to blame when we find out we had the power to stop it but decided to look the other way.

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Salam Al-Marayati

Mapping is a Symptom of Profiling, while the Root Cause is in the Policy -

Nov 16, 2007

Muslim American organizations along with the vast majority of civil society opposed the mapping plan considered by the Los Angeles Police Department …
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(LAPD). Ideas like mapping don’t occur in a vacuum but within a paradigm of treating Muslim American as suspects. That is the thinking of many on Capitol Hill, where the idea of profiling is tolerated and the notion of secret evidence against Muslim Americans is sanctioned. Until a clear debate takes place in our nation’s capital on how to engage Muslim Americans in a healthy and transparent manner, then law enforcement agencies that take their cue from our political leaders in Washington will continue to propose ideas and implement plans that violate the trust of the Muslim American community.

In a meeting with LAPD Chief William Bratton, over 20 Muslim American leaders were reassured that no plan will move forward without the input and support of the Muslim community. Now it’s time to reassure the Muslim American community, who continue to be viewed under a cloud of suspicion and to have their patriotism questioned. It’s time that our political leaders, not just law enforcement, engage with Muslim Americans.

Mapping was an idea by the LAPD mentioned at the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, co-chaired by Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME). They have had several hearings on radicalization. To date, the Senators have not invited a mainstream Muslim organization to testify and they have not offered a definition of radicalization. That vagueness leads policy-makers and policy-enforcers to define Muslim Americans rather than allowing us to define ourselves.

The most troubling aspect of this episode with the LAPD mapping plan is the sentiment among Muslim youth. They feel that they have to explain what they are not, i.e, radicals, rather than who they are, i.e. citizens contributing to the fabric of American society. The vast majority of Muslim Americans, young and old, are well-integrated and socio-economically successful. Let’s keep it that way by challenging our policy-makers to dialogue with Muslim Americans.

November 17th, 2007 at 3:40 pm