Moderate Islam: The guy's in the stands, or in front of the TV's cheerin' them on.
Or so one could be led to believe, without a large outcry, and denunciation of Islamofascism from a large portion of Muslim diaspora in the Western world.
Sometimes silence is collusion.
Penalise the fan's for what the player's do on the field?
I applaude this move.
From KNBC Los Angeles:
LOS ANGELES -- A plan by the LAPD counterterrorism bureau to create a map detailing the Muslim communities in that city was reported Friday to be angering civil rights groups.
At least three major Muslim groups and the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter yesterday to top city officials raising concerns about the plan, The New York Times reported.
"When the starting point for a police investigation is 'let's look at all Muslims,' we are going down a dangerous road," attorney Peter Bibring of the ACLU of Southern California told the newspaper in an interview.
The objections started after LAPD Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing, who heads the counterterrorism bureau, testified before a U.S. Senate committee on Oct. 30 that the LAPD was combining forces with an unidentified academic institution and looking for a Muslim partner to carry out the mapping project, the Times reported.
He testified that the project would determine the geographic distribution of Muslims in the Los Angeles area and take "a look at their history, demographics, language, culture, ethnic breakdown, socioeconomic status and social interactions."
The idea, Downing told the Times, would be to determine which communities might be having problems integrating and thus might have members susceptible to carrying out attacks.
The estimated 500,000 Muslims living in the Greater L.A. area, including Orange and Riverside Counties, represent the second-biggest U.S. concentration outside New York City.
Not all area Muslim groups object to Downing's idea.
Salam al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which is considering being the LAPD's partner in the project, told the Times he supported anything that would help integration, as long as it safeguarded civil liberties.
But other groups argue that the mapping idea is no better than racial profiling.
The letter sent Thursday suggested that representatives of groups opposed to the project meet with Downing to discuss it, the Times reported. Signatories included Muslim Advocates, a national association of Muslim lawyers, and the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, an umbrella organization for mosques.
Let the seething begin !!.
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