Posted on 08/05/2010 11:43:44 AM PDT by La Lydia
The embarrassing flap occurred Friday night, when Det. Martin Brown, who is assigned to the Police Commissioner’s Liaison Unit, showed up at Mosque No. 7, at 106 West 127th Street after (phony, no doubt) allegations that local youths were roughed up by cops from the 32nd Precinct, sources said. When Brown showed up at the mosque — the scene of a horrific 1972 cop killing— the official who had invited him, Abdul Kareem Muhammad, the head of the Harlem Clergy and Community Leaders Coalition, did not let him enter because of his gun and shield, sources said.
Those items are barred under the mosque’s rules of worship – and the news touched off a few minutes of awkwardness as Brown patiently waited outside the mosque. The mosque’s imam, Abdul Hafeez Muhammad, then greeted Brown and apologized, but reiterated the fact that he would not be allowed inside to attend the meeting, where other community leaders were in attendance, because of his gun and shield.
“He refused to comply with the demand. He wasn’t going to relinquish his weapon,” an NYPD spokeswoman said.
One police source insisted it was a slap, however inadvertent, to the Police Commissioner’s authority, particularly since the detective had showed up in act of conciliation and outreach to the Harlem community.
Just paint Jewish/Christian center on a sign outside and someone in the mosque will blow it up//
So now they’ve established that they have a protected zone and they have immunity. They can now preach hatred and teach violence, store weapons, stone women, hang homosexuals and chop off Christian or Jewish heads.
So, we can keep the cops out?
I never knew that.
Exactly
Creating the fertle soil for a bloody war because there will be those who will not bow down to sharia law.
Well, it just doesn’t make sense, to me, that the shield poses a problem. The only thing I can think of is that the shield represents our law and as others have mentioned they have their sharia law. This must be some means of showing that their law trumps ours and as far as I’m concerned you cannot have two different sets of law and remain united. What happens to equal protection under the law when you have two differing sets of laws?
This is just one more step in the process. We already know from past practice in Britain that they store weapons in some of their mosques, so how the gun of a policeman different that one of their own weapons?
I think they are testing to see how far they can push. jmo
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