Police Eyes Hovering Over Muslims

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By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: October 17, 2011

Hello to you, and to whoever might be spying on us tonight.

This is how some Muslim New Yorkers have grown accustomed to opening meetings, on campus and at mosques from Steinway Street in Queens to Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Their assumption is that someone is always listening for hints of frustration and anger and disloyalty.

And that the listener works for the New York Police Department.

“In our society, government is supposed to be public and you’re supposed to have a private life,” Moustafa Bayoumi, an English professor at Brooklyn College, said. “We’ve flipped that on its head.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/nyregion/police-eyes-hovering-over-new-york-muslims-gotham.html?_r=1&src=twrhp

[lunasun]

1. The thought police are here 25 yrs later than expected

he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1

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2. Good quote.

[PETRUS]

3. K&R nt