Village Voice: NYPD Cops' Training Included an Anti-Muslim Horror Flick

[marmar]

By Tom Robbins Wednesday, Jan 19 2011


This month, when a group of New York City police officers showed up for their required counter-terrorism training, they got to watch a movie.

And not just some diddly 20-minute educational film, either. It was a full-length color feature, with more explosions than a Transformers sequel and more blood-splattered victims than an HBO World War II series.

The bad news was that it was a spectacularly offensive smear of American Muslims. The film is called The Third Jihad. It is 72 minutes of gruesome footage of bombing carnage, frenzied crowds, burning American flags, flaming churches, and seething mullahs. All of this is sandwiched between a collection of somber talking heads informing us that, while we were sleeping, the international Islamist Jihad that wrought these horrors has set up shop here and is quietly going about its deadly business. This is the final drive in a 1,400-year-old bid for Muslim world domination, we're informed. And while we may think there are some perfectly reasonable Muslim leaders and organizations here in the U.S., that is just more sucker bait sent our way.

"Americans are being told that most of the mainstream Muslim groups are moderate," says the narrator, "when in fact if you look a little closer you'll see a very different reality. One of their primary tactics is deception." ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-01-19/columns/nypd-cops-training-included-an-anti-muslim-horror-flick/

[sabrina 1]

1. Demonizing a whole segment of the population.

But we are told not to make historical comparisons. It was this kind of hatefilled rhetoric that got over one million Muslims slaughtered in Iraq to cheering rightwingers with U.S. Generals referring to them as 'dogs' among other things.

[mwrguy]

2. Someone needs to make a training film showing cop atrocities

It would be a lot longer than 72 minutes, though.

Might have to make it a miniseries.

[Lorien]

3. Or U.S. atrocities abroad

that one would end up being a film marathon.