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Court: Lawsuit Over NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Can Proceed (washingtonpost.com)
PolygamousRanchKid sends this report from the Washington Post:
A federal court said Tuesday that a civil rights lawsuit accusing police in New York City of improperly singling out Muslims for surveillance could proceed, reversing a lower court's decision last year to dismiss the case. In its opinion (PDF), a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit rejected the city's call to have the case dismissed and brushed aside any suggestion that media reports about the surveillance, rather than the surveillance itself, caused any harm.
The lawsuit claims that surveillance of Muslim people in New Jersey discriminated against them due to their religion. It was filed by Muslim Advocates, a legal advocacy group, and later joined by the Center for Constitutional Rights, another legal organization, on behalf of several New Jersey Muslims who say they were unconstitutionally monitored by the New York Police Department. ... Last year, the NYPD disbanded the unit involved in the surveillance activities, a move that Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) praised in a statement at the time as "a critical step forward in easing tensions between the police and the communities they serve."
The lawsuit claims that surveillance of Muslim people in New Jersey discriminated against them due to their religion. It was filed by Muslim Advocates, a legal advocacy group, and later joined by the Center for Constitutional Rights, another legal organization, on behalf of several New Jersey Muslims who say they were unconstitutionally monitored by the New York Police Department. ... Last year, the NYPD disbanded the unit involved in the surveillance activities, a move that Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) praised in a statement at the time as "a critical step forward in easing tensions between the police and the communities they serve."
It's time to grow up as a collective society. Anyone still immature, irrational, childish, illogical and just down right moronic enough to believe that a God created everything and everyone and then told about it in poorly written, massively contradictory books, deserves to be mocked, and followed.
Islam is the story of God as told by an epileptic, illiterate, schizophrenic, paranoid, delusional, diapered, cave man. Who married a child, raped that child, wanted humanity to enslave women, kill people who didn't believe his bat shit crazy view and then (according to Islam), flew to heaven on a magical horse. Now when that your belief system, how much respect do you really want?
Islam is matched with Christianity and Jewish for all the time dumbest, most insane concepts on earth.
Religion is studied and believed by those who are so childish and immature, they need to hold the blanket of irrationality, pray to a sky daddy, who has no evidence, all to make themselves feel like they matter.
If I were the courts, I would said the answer is to grow up, stop acting like children, which is who religion is for, now lets grow up, you can start by taking the diaper off your head.
And if your theology advocates beheading everyone who is not of your faith?
But the Republican's plan is to kill all minorities and subjugate everyone else.
Actually, in the USA the biggest source of terrorism is from gun holders. You're far more likely to be killed from a nutter with a gun on a rampage than any foreign terrorist threat.
And you're far far more likely to accidentally drown your swimming pool than be killed by a gun; do you advocate that swimming pools are the biggest source of terrorism?
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.