Expect any less from Mr. Ground Zero Mosque?
NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that New York police used “terrible judgment” in showing officers a film about Muslims that Islamic groups have complained is inflammatory.
Bloomberg said commanders have stopped showing the movie, “The Third Jihad,” which contends that Muslims are bent on establishing an Islamic regime worldwide. The film, which was played during counterterrorism training seminars, was bankrolled by a conservative group called the Clarion Fund, according to The New York Times.
“Somebody exercised terrible judgment,” Bloomberg said in Albany. “As soon as they found out about it, they stopped it.”
The criticism was unusual for Bloomberg, who in recent months vigorously defended the police department’s counterterrorism efforts after an Associated Press investigation exposed a secret program to gather intelligence on Muslim neighborhoods.