Mosques are places of worship, prayer, and reflection for Muslim-Americans. Except to the New York Police Department, which sees them, apparently, as “terror groups,” according to a startling and shocking exposé from Alternet.
“New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
Designating an entire mosque as a terrorism enterprise means that anyone who attends prayer services there is a potential subject of an investigation and fair game for surveillance.”
There has never been a case of any terrorist activity in an American Mosque. This is pure discrimination, clear and simple, by a police department that wants to spread it tentacles to spy on all Muslims in the city, clearly violating not only privacy laws, but also civil rigts.
This is a sad pattern for NYPD, who, last year, were caught spying on Muslim student groups at College not only in New York City, but all across the northeast.
This ends now. Sign this petition and call on NYPD to apologize and immediately cease its practice of spying on Mosques, and recognize that Mosques are peaceful places of worship, unconnected to terrorism.
