Some Muslims Rethink Close Ties to Law Enforcement

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NEWARK, N.J. – Mohammad Qatanani's mosque was full of FBI agents the
night before he was to find out if he would be deported.

But even though the federal government was trying to link Qatanani to
foreign extremists, the agents weren't there to keep an eye on him. They
wanted to show their support for a Muslim leader they considered a
valued ally for the relationships he helped forge between the FBI and
Muslims in the wake of 9/11.

Across the nation, such grass-roots relationships between Muslims and
the federal government are in jeopardy. A coalition of Muslim groups is
calling for Muslims to stop cooperating with the FBI — not on national
security or safety issues but on community outreach.

The coalition is upset over what it says is increasing government
surveillance in mosques, new Justice Department guidelines that the
groups say encourage profiling, and the FBI's recent suspension of ties
with the nation's largest Muslim civil rights group, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations.

A petition that opposes FBI tactics is circulating in Muslim communities
and has been gaining support, said coalition chairman Agha Saeed. The
coalition, represented by the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights
and Elections, has requested a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder to discuss what it sees as the deteriorating relationship between
the FBI and Muslim communities.

"We have to decide what we're doing as a country. If it's not a war on
Islam, then these practices must be stopped," Saeed said. "We're not
asking for special treatment, just equal treatment."

A number of Muslim groups — including some of the nation's most
prominent — have declined to sign the petition. Other organizations say
they agree with parts of the petition but also support ongoing dialogue
with law enforcement.

FBI spokesman John Miller said the agency values its relationships with
Muslims and has worked hard on outreach efforts that range from town
hall meetings to diversity training for FBI agents.

"I think a lot of these inaccurate statements and claims have the
potential to do damage to those relationships," Miller said. "What we've
suggested to the major (Muslim) groups is that we try to separate the
real issues from the sound bites, and if we can identify those real
issues, tackle them together."

Supporters of the petition cite recent cases in California and Michigan
where the FBI has been accused of using informants and coercive tactics
to spy on mosques.

A federal judge in California ordered a review last week of FBI
inquiries into several Muslim groups and activists who claim they have
been unfairly spied on and questioned. A Muslim organization in Detroit
asked Holder in mid-April to investigate complaints that the FBI asked
mosque attendees to spy on Islamic leaders and worshippers.

Miller said there is no factual basis for claims the FBI infiltrates
mosques or conducts blanket surveillance of Muslim leaders.

"Based on information of a threat of violence or a crime, we investigate
individuals, and those investigations may take us to the places those
individual go," Miller said.

Miller questioned the timing of the petition, noting that it comes after
the FBI suspended ties with CAIR, partly because it was named as an
unindicted coconspirator in the case against the Holy Land Foundation
for Relief and Development — a group charged with bankrolling schools
and social welfare programs the U.S. government says are controlled by
Hamas.

Afsheen Shamsi, a spokeswoman for CAIR's New Jersey chapter, dismissed
the idea that the petition is retaliation. She said it reflects the
concerns of Muslims who have grown tired of being stopped at airports,
constant questioning and relentless scrutiny eight years after the
attacks of Sept. 11.

"I believe the Muslim community is questioning whether the mosque visits
and the handshakes are just a big show by the FBI, while behind the
scenes, they continue to engage in questionable practices," she said.

The petition is gaining little traction in New Jersey, home to one of
the nation's largest concentrations of Muslims, and a place where
relationships between Muslims and law enforcement were heavily tested in
the aftermath of 9/11.

New Jersey lost 744 residents in the attacks; many Muslims were among
the victims. Several of the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Paterson for a
time, and many Muslims detained after the attacks were held in New
Jersey jails.

But Muslim leaders say the FBI distinguished itself by reaching out to
Muslims, Arab Americans and groups like Sikhs in the wake of 9/11.
Relationships forged between the FBI and Muslim leaders in New Jersey
have endured since.

At Qatanani's mosque in Paterson after 9/11, the imam invited FBI agents
to lecture congregants on how to recognize terrorists. Qatanani also
helped train FBI agents on how to deal respectfully with Muslim
detainees and community members.

When Qatanani became the subject of a high-profile deportation case last
year, several high-ranking law enforcement officials took the stand on
his behalf.

Aref Assaf, a mosque member and supporter of Qatanani who heads the
Paterson-based American Arab Forum, say despite the imam's immigration
ordeal, he has urged his supporters not to sever ties with federal law
enforcement. When the petition came up at a recent meeting of New Jersey
Muslim leaders, Assaf said many declined to sign it.

"I'm a believer that law enforcement does not have a built-in
anti-Muslim policy," he said.

"I know from dealing with FBI leaders they have been very forceful in
their expressions of solidarity with our faith and culture, but there is
a line, where we have to accept that as part of our dealings with them,
they have a job to do, to make sure there are no terrorists in our midst
or anywhere else."

Agha Saeed says relationships between the FBI and Muslims in other parts
of the country have been more one-sided.

"There was a sense of mutuality at first. ... These local connections
people made, they wanted to see it as working with law enforcement and
making the community better," he said. "I am stupefied by the fact that
they (the FBI) are burning down the bridges that they need."

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– Mohammad Qatanani's mosque was full of FBI agents the
night before he was to find out if he would be deported.

But even though the federal government was trying to link Qatanani to
foreign extremists

the agents weren't there to keep an eye on him.

They wanted to show their support for a Muslim leader they considered a
valued ally for the relationships he helped forge between the FBI and
Muslims in the wake of 9/11.

FBI spokesman John Miller said the agency values its relationships with
Muslims and has worked hard on outreach efforts that range from town
hall meetings to diversity training for FBI agents.


"I believe the Muslim community is questioning whether the mosque visits
and the handshakes are just a big show by the FBI, while behind the
scenes, they continue to engage in questionable practices," she said.

New Jersey lost 744 residents in the attacks; What attack????

"...many Muslims were among the victims". What victims???


Several of the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Paterson for a
time,...what hijackers???

and many Muslims detained after the attacks were held in New
Jersey jails.

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Afsheen Shamsi, a spokeswoman for CAIR's New Jersey chapter, dismissed the idea that the petition is retaliation. She said it reflects the concerns of Muslims who,... have grown tired of being stopped at airports, constant questioning and relentless scrutiny eight years after the attacks of Sept. 11.

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Anti-Muslim discrimination in the United States jumped 25 percent last year with Islamophobia being much evident in federal and government agencies, according to a report by a leading US Muslim advocacy group.

"Like the history of other minority groups in America, the experience of the American Muslim community after the tragedy of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is seen by many as the next chapter in American civil rights history," Arsalan Iftikhar, the legal director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said in a statement e-mailed to IslamOnline.net Friday, June 15.

Iftikhar, the author of the "Presumption of Guilt" report, said researchers processed 2,467 cases of anti-Muslim violence, bias and harassment in 2006.
The 40-page report shows that hate crime complaints including physical attacks against individuals and mosques rose 9.2 percent last year.
California reported the highest rate of anti-Muslim discrimination among the US states.
"The findings in this report should serve as a reminder that discrimination is still a major issue in our nation," said Iftikhar.
The report, however, cited a slight decrease in certain categories such as the workplace in which anti-Muslim discrimination declined from 25.41 percent in 2005 to 15.57 percent in 2006.
There are between six to seven million Muslims in the United States, making up less than three percent of the country's 300 million population.
Five years after the terrorist 9/11 attacks, many American Muslims complain that they continue to face discrimination and stereotyping because of their Islamic attires or identities.
The Pew Research Center said in a nationwide survey last month that life for US Muslims changed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In the poll, a majority of US Muslims (53%) said life has become more difficult to be a Muslim in the US since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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“Government officials didn’t sit on their hands while Muslims and Arabs were attacked after September 11,” said Amardeep Singh, author of the report and U.S. Program researcher at Human Rights Watch. “But law enforcement and other government agencies should have been better prepared for this kind of onslaught.”

Violence increased dramatically against Arabs and Muslims after September 11. The federal government reported a seventeen-fold increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes, from twenty-eight in 2000 to 481 in 2001. Muslim and Arab organizations received over 2,000 reports of harassment, violence and other acts of September 11-related bias. Chicago and Los Angeles County both experienced a fifteen-fold increase in anti-Arab hate crimes during 2001.

Backlash violence against Arabs and Muslims in the United States is not unprecedented. As chronicled in the report, war in the Middle East or terrorism against the United States associated with Arabs or Muslims has triggered domestic spasms of bias violence many times in the past. Given the predictability of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim violence, Human Rights Watch argues that law enforcement and government officials should have been better prepared to combat it.

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The only reason Muslims cooperate with the FBI is because they dont want to be sterotyped as Terrorists.

There was a Pakistani named Mir Amal Kansi. He was a mujahadeen in Afghanistan, trained by the CIA. In the mid-90's, Kansi stood on George Washington Parkway, across the street from CIA hqs. He had an AK-47 and killed about four senior CIA officials as they arrived at Langley.

Being that you have a military background, you know something about "spooks." So, you know something dirty happened for this man to do this.

The Mujahadeen became Al' Qaida, (The Base). But it was a "base of information." A base of "human resources." It is a CIA given name.

This brings me to the New World Order Bush & Cheney tried to bring about. 9-11 was a joint conspiracy between the Israeli Mossad, the CIA and the FBI. Bear with me:

ITEM #1: CIA and Mossad directors had three top level meetings between March and June of 2001. One in Greece and the other two in Israel.

Item #2: Mohammad Atta entered the U.S. around February of 2001 from Hamburg, Germany He went to Prague, Czech Republic where he allegedly met with an Iraqi intelligence officer. (This was the basis of Bush's claim that Saddam was sponsoring terrorism.)

From what I know of the Mossad, they have used a counter-intelligence ploy called a "false flag" for many years. This is how they have been able to penetrate the Arab intelligence services. My belief is that this so-called Iraqi intelligence officer was in fact an Arabic speaking Mossad officer who lured the real Atta to the Czech Republic and "terminated" him. Another Mossad officer, I believe was at a "safe-house" training to take on Atta's identity and was receiving plastic surgery. ( The pictures look a guy with bad plastic surgery.) There was no accounting for Atta from Feb.,2001 to july of that year. He left from Miami and returned through Atlanta, Ga. (Atl. has a very large ewish community, and jewish communities are a Mossad support element.) From this point, Atta is said to have taken a cab from Miami to New Jersey to brief a terrorist cell. (Nobody does that!!) He is also said to have been in a miami bar acting rowdy and refusing to pay his tab while having the Qur'an in his possession.

ITEM #3: The Durban Conference was sponsored by Mary Robinson,
former President of Ireland and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The Conference addressed the issues of Slavery, Colonialism & Racism. It ran from 21-31 August, 2001. The U.S. did not send a representative, neither did Israel, but the Israeli's had an observer present.

ITEM #4: The delegates discussed the issue of Palestinian autonomy and passed a resolution declaring Israel to be a "racist state."

ITEM #5: Arafat dies mysteriously days after 9-11.

Eleven days later 9-11 occurred. SOP for the FAA in event of air piracy or highjacking is to close down all airspace and scramble a fighter wing to intercept or shoot down in the last instance. This did not happen when the first planes were taken from Boston because if it had, the airplane in New Jersey would never have gotten off the ground. (CIA inside job.)

Now the NTSB investigates all transportation related accidents/incidents in the U.S. The FBI kicked them off the investigation and took it over. To this day the FBI has never gone public with the black-box recordings.

AQ are CIA mercenaries, so this is all CIA related. The USA Patriot Act that came out of all this wrote the activities of the COINTELPRO into law which were banned by the Church Committe when Bush, Sr. was DCI, on the ground that they violated the 1st Amendment.

Ever since 9-11 we have had this Global War On Terrorism. The Patriot Act defines the members of drug-dealing street gangs as "Narco-terrorists." The CIA was responsible for bringing tons of cocaine to Los Angeles, so again, it is all CIA related.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I just call it like I see It. The U.S. Government has for many years had a plan to incite a National Emergency in the event the People rebelled against it's authority. It is called
OPERATION SLEDGE HAMMER. That is what we saw on 9-11,(emergency).
You're a soldier, think about it. Wherever there are IRREGULARITIES, there is a cover-up. There are alot of irregularities in this.