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发帖数: 901 | 1 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Yale University and student groups are condemning
the monitoring of Muslim college students across the Northeast by the New
York Police Department, while Rutgers University and leaders of Muslim
groups are calling for investigations.
The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more
broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits,
including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania
, The Associated Press reported Saturday.
Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles away in
Buffalo and sent an undercover agent on a whitewater rafting trip in upstate
New York, where he recorded students' names and noted in police
intelligence files how many times they prayed.
Detectives trawled Muslim student websites every day and, although
professors and students had not been accused of any wrongdoing, their names
were recorded in reports prepared for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
A 2006 report explained that officers from the NYPD's Cyber Intelligence
unit visited the websites, blogs and forums of Muslim student associations
as a "daily routine." The universities included Yale; Columbia; the
University of Pennsylvania; Syracuse; New York University; Clarkson
University; Rutgers University; and the State University of New York
campuses in Buffalo, Albany, Stony Brook and Potsdam, N.Y.; Queens College,
Baruch College, Brooklyn College and La Guardia Community College.
An NYPD spokesman said police wanted to get a better handle on what was
occurring at student associations. He cited 12 people arrested or convicted
on terrorism charges in the United States and abroad who had once been
members of Muslim student associations.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said police monitored student websites and
collected publicly available information, but did so only between 2006 and
2007.
"Students who advertised events or sent emails about regular events should
not be worried about a 'terrorism file' being kept on them. NYPD only
investigated persons who we had reasonable suspicion to believe might be
involved in unlawful activities," Browne said.
Yale President Richard Levin said the university's police department did not
participate in any monitoring by NYPD and was unaware of it.
"I am writing to state, in the strongest possible terms, that police
surveillance based on religion, nationality, or peacefully expressed
political opinions is antithetical to the values of Yale, the academic
community, and the United States," Levin said in a statement.
The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called
for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and local officials to investigate to determine
the extent of the monitoring and how to prevent it from happening again.
"They're just going out and casting a wide net around a whole community, so
they're criminalizing in a way a whole community based on their religion,"
said Mongi Dhaouadi, director of CAIR in Connecticut.
A message left with Malloy's spokesman seeking comment wasn't immediately
returned.
Rutgers University in New Jersey called for the NYPD to investigate its own
activities. The Muslim Student Association at Rutgers called the monitoring
a violation of civil rights.
"The Rutgers populace should openly condemn the clear violations of the NYPD
, who conducted illegitimate profiling outside of their jurisdiction and
breached the constitutional rights of an individual," the Rutgers student
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