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Muslim Groups Call For Ray Kelly’s Resignation After ‘Jihad’ Video Showing

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Protest over "The Third Jihad" at City Hall - New York, NY - Jan 26, 2012 (credit: Paul Murnane / WCBS 880)

Protest over “The Third Jihad” at City Hall – New York, NY – Jan 26, 2012 (credit: Paul Murnane / WCBS 880)

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Demonstrators held a protest Thursday on the steps of City Hall, speaking out against the showing of a film Muslim groups say encourages Americans to be suspicious of all adherents of Islam.

The film, “The Third Jihad” tries to send a message by warning about the dangers of radical Islam. However, critics say it paints the entire faith in a negative light and serves as anti-Muslim propaganda.

Some Muslim groups now want the resignation of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly for his appearance in the movie. Kelly originally said he wasn’t involved with the film and in March wrote a letter saying “the NYPD did not participate in its production,” CBS 2′s Tony Aiello reported.

Kelly is seen for about 30 seconds of the 72-minute movie, but apologized for appearing in the film and for its showing, which Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said Tuesday was “unauthorized and not part of the curriculum.”

“He has not addressed the fact that he covered up his role in the film. In fact, he lied straight up to our faces about it. We have a signed letter from him saying that he did not take a part in the production in the film. He has not addressed that. And his apology today didn’t even address the real issues,” Cyrus McGoldrick, a civil rights manager with the New York Council on American-Islamic Relations, told 1010 WINS.

The movie was later shown to police trainees. The Police Department said it was played in a continuous loop in the sign-in area of counterterrorism training sessions between October and December 2010. As many as 1,489 trainees may have seen the movie, according to documents released under New York’s public records law.

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“This is not just some cadet training, this is not just some background noise type of video. This was in the session and a lot of people saw it,” McGoldrick said.

City Councilman Jumaane Williams also called for the resignation of the NYPD spokesman Browne.  Williams said, time and again, community complaints have been brushed off.

“You cannot blame a city who feels under siege with whatever way they have to react to get the respect that we deserve,” Williams said.

Kelly’s supporters said the protest was unfair.  They said he has done a great deal to improve relations with the Muslim community, including approving the creation of a “Muslim Officers Association.”

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, while supporting his police commissioner, said that Kelly would need to redouble his efforts to reach out to the Muslim community after the incident.

“Ray Kelly probably visits more mosques than an awful lot of people who believe in the faith that is practiced there,” Bloomberg said.

Councilwoman Letitia James wasn’t calling for Kelly to resign, but said she wants the issue to be investigated further.

“What I’m asking for are hearings and an independent investigation because NYPD has shown time and time again that they cannot and will not police themselves,” she said.

Still Muslims groups want more immediate and dramatic action taken right away.

“There’s three things that are an absolute must, really a bare minimum for repairing the trust here with the police department. One, is the immediate resignation of Commissioner Ray Kelly and Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne. Two, immediate corrective training for the almost 1,500 NYPD officers that are now walking the streets with that poison in their brain and number. Three, there needs to be some independent oversight over this police department,” McGoldrick said.

What do you have to say about the controversy? Sound off in the comments section below!

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  • Cyrus McGoldrick

    I will not stand by and listen to these absurd comments. Each one of you better contact me directly and give me your name so I can recommend you for punishment by the state of NY.
    Do as I say or I will march in central park lick every squirrel i can find right under its fluffly little tail.

  • Amtracmarine

    When Muslims start turning in would be Jihadist ,I’ll support them,until then, STFU

  • yknipp

    Just take a look at a women’s quality of life as a muslim “tuck your hair in bitch or I’ll kill you”!!!!

  • ypnipp

    The “left over” crowd from OCCUPY.

  • sheep

    Sheep Sheep Sheep Sheep Sheep

    • Gab

      The film was about radical Islam and those who support it, and not about religious persecution. We see samples of Islam extreme everyday in the international news and in many Countries around the world. Since 9-11 I read, almost daily, Islamic sites and the posts of their readership. This film is nothing more than an expose’ of very popular Islamic sentiment. Radical Islam exists and you cannot ignore it or wish it to go away. Firing Ray Kelly will only help to prove that the film is correct.

    • Clue less

      blah blah blah blah..

  • DanTe

    !s1am: It’s a Disease in need of a Cure.

    FACT: Everywhere where there are M U S L I M E S, sh-!t happens.

    China — sh-!t happens
    (suicide b0 mbers that kill little children and run amok with metal pipes in the streets)

    India — sh-!t happens
    (M U S L I M E S burned 100s of Hindus alive in packed trains and burned villagers alive while they slept)

    Middle East — sh-!t happens
    (suicide b0 mbers that kill little children)

    Russia — sh-!t happens
    (suicide b0 mbers that kill women and children in crowded theaters)

    South East Asia — sh-!t happens
    (M U S L I M E thugs who kidnap teachers, school children, nurses, priests for ransom, than murder them all)

    Europe — sh-!t happens
    (suicide b0 mbers that kill little children)

    USA — 9 / 11 happened

    Notice the pattern here? Even you sanctimonious twits can’t be that dense.

    Goes to reason, no M U S L I M E S, no sh-!t.
    All these camel turds understand is violence and lies anyway. I say we oblige them by killing them all and then lie about how sorry we are.

    !s1am. It’s a disease. And like any other infestations of boils, pox and pestilence, it should be eradicated. You don’t talk to diseases. You eradicate them like you did polio and small pox.

    And some bleeding heart imbecile here will write that it’s just a few “radical” individuals that are murderous, just like any other society. But then conveniently forgetting about the Fact that it happens worldwide and by a LOT MORE than just a few individuals. And they also continues to blank out of their empty heads the worldwide M U S L I M E jubilee celebrations as people burned on 9 / 11.

  • biggie

    scholars admit Mohammed copied the jewish and christian texts and included his own psychotic ramblings for POWER! A God spoke to him sure…saying what KILL KILL KILL HATE HATE HATE! It is the most vile religion of hatred and earth the planet has seen! If your God tells you to kill I have news its no God its the DEVIL!

  • MOHAMMED SAID

    KELLY SHOULD BE TORTURED

  • abdo ali

    Thank Allah I am a Muslim .I do not care about those hateful comments.nothing will change my faith in Allah and his prophet.I say here to those who hates Islam and Muslims die with your hate and jealousy and keep your maythful religion that has a billion fake versions and false bibles.

    • abdo ali’s brother sayeed

      Abdo come home and help me draw my mohammed cartoonies or I will show the the bottom of my sandal

  • Richard

    The movie was made BY A MUSLIM and EXPLICITLY says it is NOT anti-Muslim, and MOREOVER, that RADICAL ISLAM is only a SMALL percentage (in fact, very small) of ISLAM. The film GOES OUT OF ITS WAY to show a Muslim in a fatherly gesture of kick ball or soccer with children (presumably his children). The film quotes major scholars, whether you agree with them or not, and political figures. Moreover, when it was claimed he did not participate in the production of the film, that would be an accurate quote, if “production” means did you make or otherwise fund the film. I don’t even think that’s equivocal, like, say, a person’s claim he did not have “sex” with a woman (equivocally defining oral “sex” as not sex). Quite literally, he was not involved in the production of the film. If someone shoves a microphone in my face and asks me a question about Islam and then snips it into a film with a thesis, I would argue I was not part of the production of the film. The real question is, is there anything in the film that is fabricated or edited in such a way as to misrepresent people in the film, a cause for libel. Did the editor, for example take a sentence such as ‘We will destroy cancer” and then edit the sentence in such a way as to mean “We will destroy” and then show a picture of Manhattan? If so, that would be a cause for a street protest. The bottom line is a Muslim made that film and went out of his way to show that Muslims are mainly decent citizens and that the threat is from a very very small core of Muslims that espouse RADICAL (i.e. totalitarian and violent) ISLAM.

  • Linda Elsey

    Ray Kelly should not go anywhere, he is doing a great job. His job being to protect the City of New York. Its the people who come here crying they want the “AMERICAN DREAM” then try to destroy our great Country who need to go immediately back where they came from and tell it to their countries. We Americans need to start a group called, “AMERICANS TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK”. We have stood back to long while this crap is being bulldozed over top of us and our Country is going down the tubes.

    • vc

      Well said. Were di I sign up.

  • M.A.D

    BIG DEAL, NOT A REASON TO RESIGN. MUSLIMS SHOULD GET OVER ALREADY. IF THEY CLAIM FREEDOM OF SPEACH TO INSULT MY RELIGION THEN THEY SHOULD TAKE IT IF SOMEONE ELSE DOES THE REVERSE.

  • ym

    Who the heck do you think you are? You dont like it, go back to where you came from…just that easy…See if you can demonstrate in your own countries…

  • Jihadism must be addressed!

    Ray Kelly, stand up for yourself and the NYPD, and our country. Some Muslims in the USA are possible Terrorists. I can remember back when the IRA was rasing funds in Irish Bars in New York and they were watched like hawks. Their actions were addressed, they were made to feel quite uncomfortable in our nation and they left because of the constant police attention they were given, and they left quickly. The Muslims who are raising fund sand looking in New York for Jihadists feel protected because we pay them no attention openly. Do to them what we do with American Criminals. Stop them, question them and let them know that we know who they are. Get them out of our country and not allw them back in.

  • Jerry

    Here’s a case to save the sensitive feelings of muslims at the expense of thousands of NYers ,as of this writing jihadists still threaten us.
    When they become civil we will stop our investigations PERIOD!

  • muslims go home!

    Why are muslism worry about this issues (true or not) putting a blemish on the entire muslim community but they didn’t worry or protested or did anything when all those arabs/muslims jihaddist hijacked all those planes and crashed them killing thousands? why did they not immediately go out into all the streets and publicly protested that tragic events of 911 then?

  • joey

    oh wow, i just got it. let the muslims run the police dept.

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