New York Police Department (NYPD) to improve oversight of the activities of Muslim students in the region. Not infrequently, they were spied on by sending undercover agents, to follow the target closely.
Reported by MSNBC, Saturday, February 18, 2012, the NYPD also expand their oversight to various Islamic organizations in the well known campuses, including Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. Police gather information about its goals of faculty and community members.
In addition, the NYPD also ran a student organization's website every day. Although not found students and faculty involved terror network, but their names are still included in the list of reports.
There are no negative reports. The agent simply wrote that the students were praying five times a day and they only talk about religion.
NYPD spokesman ?Paul Browne said that the Muslim Student Association to be the main target after 12 members have been arrested for involvement in terrorist acts in the U.S. and abroad. However, in intelligence operations for four years, none of those arrested by the NYPD.
The organization is being targeted because most new members are young students. NYPD worry, they will be influenced and brainwashed. In addition, extracurricular activities such as paintball game as one they fear terrorist training event.
Spying is considered a violation of civil rights of citizens by a student. "No one wants to enter a list of the FBI or the NYPD. Muslim Students have their own lives and privacy. We also have the freedom and opportunity are the same as other U.S. citizens," said Tanweer Haq, one of the coaches Muslim Student Association at Syracuse University.
