NYPD to remove excellent report on Muslim radicalization from website

From the New York Post, January 7:

The city has agreed to more stringent regulations on anti-terror cops in ­order to settle two federal lawsuits that claimed the NYPD violated constitutional rights by spying on Muslims.

The city will pay $2,033,416 in legal fees to the plaintiffs, but no monetary damages, and will add another layer of review to a committee that monitors its intelligence gathering. The NYPD will also remove a 92-page report, “Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat,” from its Web site.

“New York City’s Muslim residents are strong partners in the fight against terrorism, and this settlement represents another important step toward building our relationship with the Muslim community,” Mayor de Blasio said in a statement.

The report being referred to is not an anti-Islam screed. In fact, it goes out of its way to indicate that it is only referring to Al Qaeda style terrorism in the US. It added an extraordinary two-page disclaimer to mollify Muslims who felt that the report was Islamophobic:

NYPD understands that it is a tiny minority of Muslims who subscribe to al Qaeda’s ideology of war and terror and that the NYPD’s focus on al Qaeda inspired terrorism should not be mistaken for any implicit or explicit justification for racial, religious or ethnic profiling. Rather, the Muslim community in New York City is our ally and has as much to lose, if not more, than other New Yorkers if individuals commit acts of violence (falsely) in the name of their religion. As such, the NYPD report should not be read to characterize Muslims as intrinsically dangerous or intrinsically linked to terrorism, and that it cannot be a license for racial, religious, or ethnic profiling.

But that wasn't enough for the plaintiffs.

The fact that this report, a well-researched backgrounder on Islamic extremism, was a target in the lawsuit indicates that the goal of the action wasn't to stop spying against Muslims but to shield Muslim terrorists in the US.

This is not just another report. It was praised by experts for how comprehensive it was.

One expert, Brian Michael Jenkins, Senior Advisor to the President of the Rand Corporation, described it:

Although there have been informative analyses of the paths to violent jihad in individual countries, this is the most comprehensive review across national boundaries, including the terrorist conspiracies uncovered in the United States. The resulting model will undoubtedly become the basis for comparison with additional cases as they are revealed in future attacks or arrests. The utility of the NYPD model, however, goes beyond analysis. It will inform the training of intelligence analysts and law enforcement personnel engaged in counterterrorist missions. It will allow us to identify similarities and differences, and changes in patterns over time. It will assist prosecutors and courts in the very difficult task of deciding when the boundary between a bunch of guys sharing violent fantasies and a terrorist cell determined to go operational has been crossed. Above all, by identifying key junctions in the journey to terrorist jihad, it should help in the formulation of effective and appropriate strategies aimed at peeling potential recruits away from a dangerous and destructive course. 

Alain Bauer, Criminologist at the Sorbonne University, similarly praised it:

 We need to be able to move out of the culture of reaction, retrospect, and compilation. Only in this way can we arrive at the stage of forward thinking and enable early detection of the threats and dangers of the modern world, our modern world. This study is the NYPD's contribution to this essential process.

It remains a valuable tool today especially in the wake of ISIS-inspired terrorism in the West.

A great resource for law enforcement is being removed from NYPD websites because of political correctness.

Muslims who are truly concerned about Muslim terrorism - and we are told that the vast majority are - should be in the forefront of demanding that this report remain online and available for law enforcement worldwide to catch the Islamists while partnering with moderate Muslims.

At this moment, the report is still available on the NYPD website as well as the website of the City of New York.

I uploaded the report to Scribd.


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Words fail me, where again sensitivities is more important than the security of a nation, it beggars belief.

Well, my review of it is that it is rather authoritarian. It is not written with a presumption that everyone is free to think what they like. Rather, it treats certain thoughts as 'the enemy':

NYPD wrote:
Ideology

Jihadist or jihadi-Salafi ideology is the driver that motivates young men and women, born or living in the West, to carry out ―autonomous jihad‖ via acts of terrorism against their host countries. It guides movements, identifies the issues, drives recruitment and is the basis for action.

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This ideology has served as the inspiration for numerous homegrown groups including the Madrid March 2004 bombers, Amsterdam’s Hofstad Group, London’s July 2005 bombers, the Australians arrested as part of Operation Pendennis in late 2005 and the Toronto 18 arrested in June 2006.

It's one thing to say that a nation is the enemy. And, it's in keeping to say that a group--say, the Mafia--is the enemy. But it is dangerous to say that a certain idea or ideas are the enemy.

What's next? Your thoughts? Slippery slope. Or, maybe we shouldn't be talking about this...are they listening?

You have not read it and to claim you have proves how deceitful the left truley are. Again I am beginning les and less to be bothered with your comments, because they truly are off the charts. You have not the first clue about terrorism let alone radicalisation. When you are and have been part of  of circulation which I have been for a very long time where I get to read countless information on radicalization, then come back and then we can have a debate, in the mean time this is just a list of recent articles I have read


By Elisabeth Hope Murray
Publisher’s description As a key element of power in the 20th century, understanding the role of ideology in genocidal states is critical. The key distinctive elements in this work revolve...
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By Gene G. Ano, Russell E. Phillips III
Abstract The majority of the research on religious fundamentalism explores its negative implications. Religious coping theory provides an opportunity to examine both positive and negative implications of fundamentalism. The present...
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By Adrian Furnham, Aristide Saggino, Leonardo Carlucci, Marco Tommasi, Michela Balsamo
Abstract This study’s aims were two-fold: to contribute to an understanding of the relationship between religious fundamentalism and psychological well-being and to test the psychometric properties of the Italian adaptation...
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By Alamgir Sheriyar, Jane Reeves
Abstract This article examines one response to the UK Government’s directive that radicalisation and extremism should be tackled in all UK secondary schools. The small scale study is set in...
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By John Cianchi
Publisher’s description Environmentalism is a contest about the meaning of nature and the social construction of activism, deviance and harm. The contests that are the subject of this book are...
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By Daniel Nilsson DeHanas, Nasar Meer, Stephen H. Jones, Tariq Modood, Therese O’Toole
Journal abstract In this article, we consider the implications of the ‘Prevent’ strand of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy for the UK state’s engagement with Muslims. We argue that the logics...
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By Angela McGilloway, Kamaldeep Bhui, Priyo Ghosh
Abstract Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in the USA and 7/7 in the UK, academic interest in factors involved in radicalization and terrorism has increased dramatically. Many related social...
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By Donald Holbrook
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical assessment of the way in which the internet and online material features as part of the process individuals embark...
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By Bart Schuurman, Edwin Bakker
Abstract In 2012, the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism and the Dutch Probation Service launched a reintegration project for offenders on probation or parole who were (suspected to...
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By Clark McCauley, Joshua D. Freilich, Steven Chermak, Tom Holt
Abstract The role of the internet in radicalizing individuals to extremist action is much discussed but remains conceptually and empirically unclear. Here we consider right-wing and jihadist use of the...
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By Mark Sedgwick
Abstract The term “jihadism” is popular, but difficult. It has narrow senses, which are generally valuable, and wide senses, which may be misleading. This article looks at the derivation and...
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By Mark Pitcavage
Abstract The concept of the “lone wolf” terrorist slowly emerged in recent decades, often drawing media attention as a “new” or “dangerous” threat. It has only been in the past...
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By Paul Baker, Tony McEnery
Even with the advent of social media and the increasing ease in which information can be shared peer-to-peer, the traditional media is still an essential route for informing the general...
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Didge wrote:You have not read it and to claim you have proves how deceitful the left truley are.

Once again, this is not about me. It is about the actions of the New York City Police Department, and their report.

I have read the report in its entirety, however I have not read the rest of this post as you are changing the subject.

I accept your humble defeat. I'm off to find other, more stimulating threads and posts.

No its about you telling prokies claiming to have read something when its a 92 page report. That is why I know you are lying.
Again come bacck when you have studied radicaliztion as its clear you know very little about the subject, then I will be happy to engage in a debate with you and I have given you some reading material to help in this regard

Also those who hold the extremist Jihadist or jihadi-Salafi ideology  are the enemy of everything that liberals stand for and if you think they are not again you have your head firmly stuck in the ground. It shows you know reletively little about Islamic extremism which effects many Muslims also alike

It's a good report. Jihadi-salafi's or Qutbists, call them whatever.

The report was probably pulled becuase it criticises the Saud family. You shouldn't be surprised at their influence.

Fuzzy Zack wrote:It's a good report. Jihadi-salafi's or Qutbists, call them whatever.  

The report was probably pulled becuase it criticises the Saud family. You shouldn't be surprised at their influence.

I am not sure it was saudi influence but would not rule that out, again I think it is policies that wrongly play onto sensitivities. There certainly needs o be some balance in how security measures are handled and I have no doubt the NYPD have fallen foul with some of their officers how they handle investigations, but this really does send the wrong message to pull a report that was essentially good.