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| NYU Students Speak Out Against NYPD Surveillance |
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Over the last few days, many articles have been published quoting and featuring students at New York University speaking out against the NYPD's surveillance of Muslim communities. Excerpted below in an article that was featured on the home page of Huffington Post entitled "Police Leave New York Muslim Students 'Violated '" along with a list of links to other articles and segments. The below articles were also picked up by numerous other media outlets and agencies. Police Spying Leaves New York Muslim Students 'Violated'
Muslims pray before a community dinner at the Islamic
Center at New York University March 10, 2011 in New York City.
NEW YORK -- In his three years studying computer science at New York University, Ali Shah has come to call the campus Islamic center a second home. It's here, on the fourth floor of a modern building that overlooks Greenwich Village, where Shah said he has grown in his faith as a Muslim, formed close friendships and come to feel comfortable in a large university and city where it's easy to be anonymous. But on Friday, Shah seemed distraught. He was confused. And hurt. He came to the Islamic center with a few dozen Muslims, some of the hundreds at the university who learned that New York police had been monitoring the center's website for signs of terrorist activity. "It violated my idea of this as a safe space," said Shah, who is from North Brunswick, N.J. A series of Associated Press articles has rocked the city's Muslim population by revealing that police planted informants in mosques, Muslim neighborhoods and Islamic university clubs in New York and its suburbs. Police spied on prayer times, sermon topics, food sold at restaurants and discussions on politics and world events. One report showed that an undercover officer went on a Islamic university group's whitewater rafting trip, while another compiled weekly reports of Muslim student club websites....to continue reading please click here |