Ta-Nehisi Coates on the New York Police Department’s profiling of Muslim student populations throughout the northeastern U.S.:
If you follow the logic through it basically justifies a municipal police department spying on anyone who ever headed a Muslim Students Association anywhere in the United States. When you consider that in many cases these informants weren’t even investigating a crime, or building a case, that they were just spying, and the obvious incentive to “find” a case, Browne’s words are chilling. …
This where you see the really long-term effects of terrorism. It’s not simply the number of people you murder, it’s how the smallest act can alter the character of a nation.
Read his full commentary here.
Tags: American Muslims, higher education, NYPD
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AMA citation:
Boy J. The NYPD’s religious profiling. The Immanent Frame. 2012. Available at: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/02/23/the-nypds-religious-profiling/. Accessed May 19, 2013.
APA citation:
Boy, John D.. (2012). The NYPD’s religious profiling. Retrieved May 19, 2013, from The Immanent Frame Web site: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/02/23/the-nypds-religious-profiling/
Chicago citation:
Boy, John D.. 2012. The NYPD’s religious profiling. The Immanent Frame. http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/02/23/the-nypds-religious-profiling/ (accessed May 19, 2013).
Harvard citation:
Boy, J 2012, The NYPD’s religious profiling, The Immanent Frame. Retrieved May 19, 2013, from <http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/02/23/the-nypds-religious-profiling/>
MLA citation:
Boy, John D.. "The NYPD’s religious profiling." 23 Feb. 2012. The Immanent Frame. Accessed 19 May. 2013. <http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/02/23/the-nypds-religious-profiling/>
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