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Miami. FL - The City of Miami hired Muslims with ties to the Nation of Islam to patrol streets and keep the peace.
The city will pay $150,000 to Peacemakers, a civilian group run by Progressive Land Development International, as part of a $1 million crime-fighting initiative, Fox News reports. However, a great deal of controversy has been caused by the organization's mailing address – it also belongs to the Miami's Nation of Islam.
Though Peacemakers insists it has no official affiliation with the Muslim organization, the patrolling group is run by well-known NOI member Rasul Muhammad. He is also the son of late Elijah Muhammad, the man responsible for developing the NOI.
Peacemakers' corporate offices are also located in Miami's Nation of Islam Muhammad Mosque 29, the 7th regional headquarters of the Nation of Islam.
According to reports, Andrew Rosenkranz, the Anti Defamation League's Florida Regional Director, said the City of Miami made an odd selection when it chose the civilian patrol group to teach acceptance and civility.
The Muslim group has "a well-documented, irrefutable public record of racism, bigotry and anti-Semitism," Rosenkratz said.
According to the Miami Herald, Muhammad denied claims that the Peacemakers are racially prejudiced.
"We are not anti-Jewish people," he said. "We are not anti-Catholic people. We are not anti-white people. The whole Peacemakers project is being based on being anti-crime, anti-immorality. ... Are they saying that they don't want peace?''
"While we appreciate the City of Miami's efforts to improve conditions in the Overtown area, we are concerned that it did not fully understand the nature of the organization that it chose to provide these services," Rosenkranz told Fox News.
The City of Miami stands by its choice, and Ed O'Dell, spokesman for the city's Community Redevelopment Agency, claimed they extended an invitation to their meeting to several community and faith-based groups following requests from home and night club owners for improved safety measures
"Other groups were at the meeting," he said. "Homeowners' groups, pastors, parents – anyone could come. I don't know why they didn't want to be a part of it."
An official agreement has not yet been signed, and O'Dell said there are other positive components to the $1 million contract.
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Jun 04, 2008 at 09:26 AM murray Says:
What else would you expect- they are getting ready for an Obama pres. You will see a lot more of this!!
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Jun 04, 2008 at 09:38 AM Anonymous Says:
Are they hiring a wolf to guard the sheep?
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Jun 04, 2008 at 10:06 AM avi Says:
is the city of miami nuts!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!
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Jun 04, 2008 at 10:10 AM Anonymous Says:
The only option left is to vote in November, and stop whining.
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Jun 04, 2008 at 10:46 AM Anonymous Says:
its about time we realizied we are in golus
time for all the miami condo owners to buy apts in israel if they havent already done so
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Jun 04, 2008 at 11:27 AM Ploni Says:
is $150K more or less than the Cities of New York and Baltimore pay their Jewish community patrol groups?
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Jun 04, 2008 at 11:30 AM Mia Mee Says:
Who really cares let black people patrol black neighborhoods muslim or whatever. What is the ADL worried about Jews and whites don't step foot in Overtown. Would they rather Shomrim patrol the area...it is sakonas nefoshos to walk the streets there.
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Jun 04, 2008 at 07:09 PM Pincus Says:
Nation of Islam has NOTHING to do with Islam. Traditional Muslims consider the the Nation of Islam's beliefs to be antithetical of Islam.
The main belief of The Nation of Islam and its followers is that there is no G-d but Allah. However, they redefine "Allah" by saying "who came in the person of W. D. Fard.
Muslims consider NOI to be an idolatrous sect!!(Islam is a monotheistic religion as is Judaism.)
NOI was founded in 1930 by Wallace Dodd Fard.
Early leader Elijah Muhammad taught that the white race was created 6,000 years ago by a renegade black scientist named Yakub. Muhammad also taught his followers about a Mother Plane or Wheel, a UFO that was seen and described in the visions of the prophet Ezekiel.Members of The Nation of Islam have long held that Elijah Muhammad did not die, but instead escaped a death plot, was restored to health, and is aboard “that huge wheel-like plane that is even now flying over our heads.” Among Muhammad's passengers on the Mother Wheel is the mysterious figure named W.D. Fard.
Current leader Louis Farrakhan has spoken out against "white devils" and Jewish "bloodsuckers"
As of 2005, the Nation of Islam was included in the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of active hate groups in the United States.
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Jun 05, 2008 at 02:34 PM Oh Boy Says:
WOW