Political Correctness Infects the NYPD

Political correctness will be our undoing. We are headed down the same path as Europe with regard to islam because we have leaders in law enforcement and political office who's highest priority is to make sure they do not offend muslims even if that means compromising our safety and security. Keep in mind this is certainly not a criticism of the rank and file brave police officers who are not responsible for department policy and who themselves are endangered by this politically correct nonsense. There is simply a refusal on the part of leadership in all public institutions to tell the truth about how evil islam is. Our political “leaders” will not even dare to publically name the islamic jihadist enemy or acknowledge that we are at war with islam. They stand up there with a straight face proclaiming islam is a peaceful religion when it is nothing of the kind and never was. I for one, will not be one of those who pretend islam is anything other than a brutally violent and oppressive ideology. I am not one of those 47% of ignoramuses polled who don't believe islam encourages violence. Do they not follow world events? Do they not hear or read about what is said by imams and is taught in madrassas and preached in mosques? I also don't care if I am considered a bigot for simply believing my own eyes and ears, for having logic and common sense.

NYPD rewords report that some say insulted Muslims
By TOM HAYS

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department has revised a highly touted report on the threat of homegrown terrorism in response to complaints that it was an insult to law-abiding, observant Muslims.

A coalition of Muslim groups on Wednesday applauded the two-page clarification tucked into "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat" — a study first circulated in law enforcement circles and on the Internet in 2007. The new wording says the NYPD "understands that it is a tiny minority of Muslims who subscribe to al-Qaida's ideology of war and terror."

The clarification also calls the city's Muslim community "our ally," and "as such, the NYPD report should not be read to characterize Muslims as intrinsically dangerous or intrinsically linked to terrorism, and that it cannot be a license for racial, religious, or ethnic profiling."

Despite welcoming the changes, the New York-based Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition accused the NYPD of not doing enough to publicize them. Also, the study still has passages that "criminalize religious behaviors," said Aliya Latif of the New York office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a coalition member.

Police officials have denied the report stereotypes Muslims, even in its original form. The changes merely "make explicit what was already implicit" regarding the departments' respect for the community, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.

The study was based on an analysis of a series of domestic plots thwarted since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It was prepared by senior analysts with the NYPD Intelligence Division who traveled to Hamburg, Germany; Madrid and other overseas spots to confer with authorities about similar cases.

The report concluded that homegrown terrorists often were indoctrinated in local "radicalization incubators," including cafes and bookstores, that are "rife with extremist rhetoric."

The report warns that potential terrorists "are not on the law enforcement radar." They "look, act, talk and walk like everyone around them," it adds.