TYT: NYPD has been forcing recruits to watch the Islamophobic documentary The Third Jihad
The NYPD has reportedly been showing an anti-muslim documentary to it’s recruits. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss this bigoted film, and this terrible decision by the NYPD.
Raw Story: NYPD played anti-Muslim movie ‘on continuous loop’ at training
The New York Police Department showed an anti-Muslim film “on a continuous loop” for between three months and one year of training at its COBRA (Chemical, Ordinance, Biological, and Radiological) Unit, which provides terrorism awareness training.
According to the New York Times, the documentary The Third Jihad showed Muslim terrorists shooting Christians in the head, executed children covered by sheets and a fake photograph of an Islamic flag flying above the White House. One of those interviewed in the film says that “Islamism is like cancer.”
News of the film’s use by the NYPD first broke in January 2011. A police official at the time claimed that it had only been shown “a couple of times.”
But documents (PDF) obtained by the Brennan Center for Justice revealed that the film was “played on a continuous loop during the sign in, medical and administrative process” of the training. It was not used during the lecture portion of the training, though, only as an “intermission filler.”
At least 1,489 police officers saw the film.
“Somebody exercised some terrible judgment,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the Associated Press. “As soon as they found out about it, they stopped it.”
Staff at the COBRA Unit said they obtained the video from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But the identity of that DHS agent who provided the film remains a mystery. The DHS said the film was not an authorized to be used or distributed by the department.
The film was eventually pulled after police officers complained that it was offensive.
“It’s clearly a propaganda, anti-Muslim film,” said Linda Sarsour, a member of the Muslim-American Civil Liberties Coalition. “It’s overly dramatic, piecing together things out of context and threading it together to make this very false narrative about Muslim Americans.”
The film was created by the Clarion Fund, a group tied to the Israeli orthodox organization Aish Hatorah, according to Think Progress. The group has received millions of dollars in donations and has produced multiple anti-Muslim films, including Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West and Iranium.
Gee, and I wonder why Islamophobia is so bad in NYC that NYPD is spying on Muslim college students.
Several times I have commented that hatred felt long and deeply enough no longer feels like hatred, but more like tradition, economics, religion, what have you. It is when those traditions are challenged, when the entitlement is threatened, when the masks of religion, economics, and so on are pulled away that hate transforms from its more seemingly sophisticated, ‘normal,’ chronic state — where those exploited are looked down upon, or despised — to a more acute and obvious manifestation. Hate becomes more perceptible when it is no longer normalized. Another way to say all of this is that if the rhetoric of superiority works to maintain the entitlement, hatred and direct physical force remain underground. But when that rhetoric begins to fail, force and hatred waits in the wings, ready to explode.
Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe (via solitaryforager)
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal (via futurewilderness)
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“You’re the ones struggling with rising costs and stagnant wages. You’re the ones who need relief. Now, you can call this class warfare all you want. But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense” - U.S. President Obama
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Blown away.
Our resistance to the planet’s destruction—this resistance is often called environmentalism—is of course servile to the core. Our activism consists almost exclusively of begging those in power to go against the requirements and rewards of this omnicidal economic and political and cultural system and do the right thing, something we know they will never do with any consistency, something we know they cannot do with any consistency, because to do so would cause the entire economic system (based as it is functionally upon unsustainable and exploitative activities) to implode. We never demand they do the right thing. And we certainly never force them to do the right thing.
Derrick Jensen (via oniverse)
