You guessed it, the Muslim Brotherhood’s American allies, which include the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), have all united to confront New York’s Attorney General over NYPD’s plans to surveil some Shiite Mosques. Get this. The Associated Press refers to these groups as “Civil Rights groups.”

Via WSJ:

Thirty-three civil rights groups from around the country complained to the New York attorney general Friday about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based on their religion.

The letter urged Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate NYPD’s surveillance operations, revealed by an Associated Press investigation, which monitored entire neighborhoods and built databases about everyday life in Muslim communities.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have insisted that police only follow legitimate leads and do not conduct preventative surveillance in ethnic communities. A May 2006 report addressed to Kelly, however, recommended increased spying at mosques and an assessment of the region’s Palestinian community to look for potential terrorists.

Even before the AP published the document, Kelly was under fire from Muslim groups who were angry that a controversial movie about Muslims, “The Third Jihad,” was shown at NYPD training sessions. Kelly appears briefly in the movie.

A side story here is the support that Shiite mosques are receiving from the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood groups. This serves as another in a long line of examples that show when it comes to the West, strange bedfellows are indeed made and the enmity between Sunnis and Shiites melts away.

HERE is a link to the list of groups that have signed on to the letter to the Attorney General.

h/t GMBDR