"When this reporter asked Mr. Whitmore if any other , religions, had a LASD Community Affairs Unit and received equal taxpayer funds, Whitmore replied, "There are no other religious Community Affairs Units in the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department."
From MensNewsDaily July 11 by Amy Alkon
LA Sheriff’s Department Has A Muslim Public Affairs Unit
LA Sheriff's Department Has A Muslim Public Affairs Unit
It's paid for with public funds.
Separation of mosque and state, anyone?
More about the LASD's Muslim Community Affairs Unit from TheUnitedWest.com, via a somewhat sloppily written piece on their site:
Steve Whitmore, LASD Senior Media Advisor, confirmed the Muslim Community Affairs Unit receives taxpayer funds approximating $128,400 per year for two full time Deputies. When this reporter asked Mr. Whitmore if any other , religions, had a LASD Community Affairs Unit and received equal taxpayer funds, Whitmore replied, "There are no other religious Community Affairs Units in the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department."
For the LASD to meet the Establishment Clause threshold for "government neutrality toward religion" Sheriff Baca would have two options. First, Sheriff Baca would have to establish and manage Community Affairs Units with two Deputies and a $128,400 budget, for each recognized religion under his jurisdiction. The second option would be to dismantle the Muslim Community Affairs Unit in accordance with the Establishment Clause.
...The MCAU has another function, "The unit also trains department members about Islam and Muslims, touching on issues such as religious beliefs and customs. Academy recruits also receive a two-hour class on Muslim cultures and background as part of the cultural awareness training program." A program tasked with teaching Shariah Compliant Islamic values to incoming police recruits, while excluding the values of every other religion in Los Angeles County.
...A 2008 Pew Research Center survey reveals the citizens of California are 42% various Christian denominations, 31% Roman Catholic Christians, 2% Jewish, 2% Latter Day Saints, and 1% Muslim. The rest of the citizens are either non religious or of other minority faiths.
"According to the latest hate crime report from the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, 88 percent of all religiously based hate crimes in 2009 were against Jews. Hate crimes that targeted Muslims (3 percent) ranked slightly above those directed at Scientologists (1 percent). In fact, the commission found that attacks against Christians (8 percent) outnumbered attacks against Muslims....
Read it all
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"According to the latest hate crime report from the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, 88 percent of all religiously based hate crimes in 2009 were against Jews". More than against Muslims. Yeah, right.
There have been numerous lynchings in US history, but never against Jews. This report would be funny except that too many people take it seriously.
Jay is playing 'bate & switch.' Nobody is taking about lynchings, which, he's right, were seldom in the past century in the US against Jews. That's not the point. "religiously based hate crimes" are going to be more like someone painting swastikas on a wall, and the figures for LA reflect national statistics as well.
Joseph - painting a swastika on a wall may indeed be a hate crime. On the other hand, it may be a fake crime. There are hundreds of these every year. There are far more real hate crimes against Muslims - in a sense, since September 11th 2001, it's 'understandable' that this should be the case, though of course that doesn't justify them. What's revealing is the denial of this statistic by official bodies, and the uncritical acceptance of bogus hate crimes against Jews and others.
Oh Jay as usual you are so predictable! You are a drama queen and employ taqiyya and kitman whenever common sense and hard statistics prove you wrong.
According to FBI bias crime statistics, the vast majority of hate crimes are directed towards Jews (around 81%).
Bias crimes against Muslims (9%) are only slightly higher than bias crimes against Roman Catholics (8%).
I guess if I were a Muslim I would attempt as you do, to steer public sympathy towards Islam, and label the FBI statistics as biased and just plain wrong. I would especially want to do this knowing that many of the hate crimes directed towards Jews were perpetrated by members of my own religion, Islam.
It must be because as every Muslim "knows", the FBI is made up of nothing but Islamaphobes and Jews, right?
C'mon Jay, taqiyya and kitman. We are all familiar with the lies that Islam (and you), attempt to foist on the public.
From Islamic Law:
Reliance of the Traveler (p. 746 - 8.2) - "Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible (N:i.e. when the purpose of lying is to circumvent someone who is preventing one from doing something permissible), and obligatory to lie if the goal is obligatory... it is religiously precautionary in all cases to employ words that give a misleading impression...
"One should compare the bad consequences entailed by lying to those entailed by telling the truth, and if the consequences of telling the truth are more damaging, one is entitled to lie.
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