Muslim American advocates and civil rights groups are condemning comments Mike Bloomberg made defending the practice of surveilling Muslims in New York City after the Sept. 11 attacks when he was mayor.
Now, new attention is turning to his backing of the monitoring of Muslims in the New York City area in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.that aired Thursday on PBS NewsHour, Bloomberg explained the New York Police Department's secret monitoring Muslims as an intelligence-gathering tactic that was part of a larger effort to keep America safe.
"We sent to some officers into some mosques to listen to the sermon that the imam gave," Bloomberg said."We were very careful. And the authorities that looked at us said, yes you complied with the law. But we had every intention of going every place we could legally to get as much information to protect this country. We had just lost 3,000 people at 9/11. Of course we're supposed to do that.
"There were imams who publicly at that time were urging the terrorism," Bloomberg continued."And so of course that's where you gonna go. That does not, incidentally, mean that all Muslims are terrorists or all terrorists are Muslims. But the people who flew those airplanes came from the Middle East."
The police surveillance program was aimed at places of worship, cafes and schools where Muslims frequented. In , an undercover officer accompanied 18 Muslims students from the City College of New York on a whitewater rafting trip.
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