New York Police Commissioner in trouble with American Muslims

New York Police Commissioner in trouble with American Muslims

US Muslim civil rights groups demanded the resignation of New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly on Wednesday amid a controversy over the repeated screening of an offensive video.              

Kelly said he regretted cooperating with the makers of “The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America,” which shows footage of suicide attacks and says “the true agenda of much of Muslim leadership here in America” is to “infiltrate and dominate
America.”

Kelly came under fire following reports that the video had been screened many more times than previously acknowledged. When the video first came to light a year ago, police said it had been screened only a few times.

In fact, it was shown to more than 1,400 officers over a period of months, the
New York Times reported on Tuesday based on documents obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent Muslim civil liberties organization, said Kelly had disqualified himself to head the country’s largest and most prominent police force.

“As leaders of the nation’s largest police department, Commissioner Kelly and Deputy Commissioner (Paul) Browne’s actions set a tone for relations with law enforcement that impact American Muslims nationwide,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad
said in a statement. “It’s time for change.”

CAIR and other civil liberties groups set a news conference for Thursday at New York City Hall.

The controversy comes as Kelly, who is closely aligned with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was restoring the police department’s strained relations with the Muslim minority.

“Somebody exercised some terrible judgment,” Bloomberg told reporters on Tuesday, referring to the film. “As soon as they found out about it, they stopped it.”

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