(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The May 2006 intelligence report, published on Thursday, was prepared for New York City's Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. It suggested police expand covert operations at Shia mosques.
The report, drawn largely from information available in newspapers or sites like Wikipedia, listed a dozen mosques from central Connecticut to the Philadelphia suburbs.
The NYPD is prohibited, under its own guidelines and city law, from basing its investigations on religion.
The document runs contrary to the statements by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who has said the NYPD never considers religion in its policing.
Police Commissioner Kelly has said, however, that officers only go where investigations lead them. But the document lists no leads justifying spying at Shia mosques.
Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in New York has posted an announcement for the “Rally for Justice” on Friday February 3 to protest the recent actions of the NYPD against the Muslim community in the US.
“The NYPD has transgressed all boundaries of respect for our community namely in their instillation of spying and surveillance program of masjids (mosques...) and more recently in the use of the anti-Muslim film “The Third Jihad” in NYPD trainings,” CAIR wrote on its website.
Greg Felton, a Canadian author, told Press TV in December, 2011 that “the United States has become fairly Zionized”.
“The hatred of Muslims, the distrust of Muslims, the fear of Muslims is something that has been imposed on America by Israel,” Felton said.
He added, “In practice, the purpose of America is to persecute Muslims….because it (the US) is in the business of serving Israel.”
Following the 9/11 attacks in the United States, many Muslims have been the subject of discrimination, hate crimes, and racial profiling.
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