NYPD keeps files on Muslims who change their names (They don't quite get it).

By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO - Associated Press Yahoo News

The goal was to find a way to spot terrorists like Daood Gilani and Carlos Bledsoe before they attacked.

Gilani, a Chicago man, changed his name to the unremarkable David Coleman Headley to avoid suspicion as he helped plan the 2008 terrorist shooting spree in Mumbai, India. Bledsoe, of Tennessee, changed his name to Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad in 2007 and, two years later, killed one soldier and wounded another in a shooting at a recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark.

                                                                                                          

Sometime around 2008, state court officials began sending the NYPD information about new name changes, said Ron Younkins, the court's chief of operations. The court regularly sends updates to police, he said. The information is all public, and he said the court was not aware of how police used it.

Taking an Arabic name might be a sign that someone is more religious, Brown said, but it doesn't necessarily suggest someone is more radical. He said law enforcement nationwide has often confused the two points in the fight against terrorism.

Now For Consul Moore's opinion:

What needs to be researched during the interviews is the kind of ideology the people believe in. This will simplify things. If you understand a person’s ideology then this makes the discovery of a threat easier to recognize. It’s literally as simple as the following analogy: If you interview someone (let’s say somebody directly from Germany) and you discover that the book which inspires this Germans’ belief system is “Mein Kamph” written by Adolf Hitler, well then you have a pretty clear sign that this individual could potentially be a Nazi, or they hold strongly to the ideals presented in this book.” If during the interview process you discover a Middle Eastern individual whom bases their belief system off of the book “Milestones” written by Sayyid Qutb, well then this is the same as the analogy just mentioned about the German; you have a pretty clear sign that you need to keep an eye on this person.

                                                        

It’s not discrimination to recognise a dangerous ideology and to be against it. Would you be considered someone prejudice if you didn’t want to befriend a Nazi? No, you would just be seen as someone smart enough to know that the ideals a Nazi does not correspond well with your own, for you're not a supporter of hate and violence; no one would judge you. So in knowing this to be true, how come people can’t differentiate between Islam and an ideology derived from Islam? Someone Muslim should not be perceived as dangerous, anymore than someone German should be perceived as a Nazi today. However if the individual (regardless of their culture or race) follows an ideology which inspires violence and discrimination you should not think yourself intolerable, or prejudice for recognizing the danger and being unsupporting of the ideology.

                                                                                                                                   

If what is being said here does not make sense, please help me to better understand.

Please read my article "Origin of Our Threat and the Danger of Their Ideology" presenting all the evidence and facts for my arguments, verified by former CIA. The link to this article is provided below.

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