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Muslims Respond to NYPD Surveillance

Description:Muslim groups have had varied responses to the revelation that a special unit within the NYPD has been monitoring their houses of worship, student associations and businesses. Groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations feel the surveillance program unfairly targets their community and constitutes a civil rights violation, while the American Islamic Forum for Democracy has thanked the NYPD for "doing a lot of the work that we as Muslims should be doing, which is monitoring extremism”. (3:43)

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