WASHINGTON, January 26, 2012 (WAFA) – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), a Washington-based civil rights organization, Thursday denounced showing a film depicting American Muslims as terrorists to New York Police Department (NYPD) trainees, according to a statement.

As a result, it called on New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his deputy Paul Browne to “immediately resign.”

The film, the “Third Jihad,” described by ADC as “a blatantly bigoted and hate-filled film vilifying the American-Muslim community,” was shown to NYPD cadets getting training in antiterrorism.

It portrays Muslims as engaged in a “1400 year war” to “infiltrate and dominate America,” and includes “inflammatory imagery, including people who appear to be Muslim engaging in acts of terrorism, car bombs exploding, executed children, and repeated images of an Islamic flag flying over the White House,” said ADC.

“Commissioner Kelly and his deputy had recently lied to community members by denying any involvement in the film,” said ADC. “The decision to take part in the film, as well as show the film to nearly 1,500 NYPD cadets, raises serious concerns about Kelly’s ability to serve and protect minority groups in New York City,” it said.

ADC accused Kelly of engaging the NYPD in programs “that have no regards for civil rights and liberties.”

It said that “practices such as data mapping of the American-Muslim community in New York, extensive and unwarranted surveillance programs, partnership with the CIA, already raised doubts about Kelly’s policing methods. Involvement with “Third Jihad” sends a clear message that the NYPD’s dealings with New York’s diverse Muslim communities are based on bigotry and blanket suspicion.”

M.S.