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Bloomberg blasts use of anti-Muslim movie during NYPD training

Wed, 01/25/2012 - 11:32 — Dave Culver
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The screening of the film inside the 36,000-member police department has been known for months, but police previously said only a few officers had seen it. They stopped showing the film after a trainee complained.

Chris Hawley,  Associated Press / Washington (DC) Post

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday (Jan 24) that New York police used "terrible judgment" in showing officers undergoing counterterrorism training a graphic, hard-hitting film that says Muslim extremists are bent on establishing a worldwide Islamic regime.

Bloomberg said police have stopped showing "The Third Jihad," a 72-minute documentary-style movie that has been branded inflammatory by some Muslim groups and was bankrolled, according to The New York Times, by a conservative group called the Clarion Fund.

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