"...a police informant who visited this and other mosques tried to lure congregants into inflammatory conversations that would then have been reported to the police. According to court documents, the informant tried the same strategy with a Muslim charity that distributed food to the needy. The group, which apparently did nothing illegal, lost credibility in the community once people learned that it had been a target of police scrutiny...The [NYPD surveillance] camera, which...was moved across the street but remains in use, raised fears among congregants...Many refrained from attending communal prayer; some left the congregation. Concerned that their religious pronouncements might be misquoted by informants, the mosque’s spiritual leaders began recording sermons so that they would be able to defend themselves. They have said they avoided meeting with congregants individually because they feared the congregants might be informants." nytimes/2013/06/24/opinion/more-overreach-by-the-nypd.html?_r=0
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:36:30 +0000
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