MACLC: Muslim New Yorkers Rally for NYPD Accountability2

PART TWO: Councilman Barron, Imam Ayub Baqi, Councilman Williams, Rev Breyer. Advocates of the Muslim community were joined by elected officials, civil and immigrant rights organizations, and supporters at a press conference on the steps of City Hall to voice their concerns over the NYPD's use of The Third Jihad a controversial film about Islam and Muslims as part of its training program.

A recent report by the DC- based Political Research Associates, "Manufacturing the Muslim Menace: Private Firms, Public Servants, & the Threat to Rights and Security," exposed the distorted information, and anti-Islamic rhetoric propagated in various ways by trainers associated with three private counterterrorism organizations with national outreach, and exposure to over 130,000 security and law-enforcement personnel. "America faces very real threats of violent terrorism, yet, trainers from the organizations in our study draw from a variety of anti-Islamic frames to teach public servants conspiracy theories about stealth infiltration of America that echo the shameful witch hunts of McCarthyism," says Thom Cincotta, author of the report.

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