Police captain punished for refusing to attend Muslim Brotherhood-linked mosque The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, punished one of its own veteran police commanders for his refusal to attend a Muslim religious service being held at a mosque he said practiced radical Islamic dogma, according to court records. He also dared to refuse to order his officers to visit a mosque he alleges has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Captain Paul Fields said he was told to participate in what he characterized as a proselytizing Islamic worship service and that he must also order the police officers under his command to also attend and participate in the service. As a result he was relieved of his command and was harassed by the Internal Affairs Division (IAD), a group called the rat squad by most American cops in a majority of law enforcement agencies. Once some IAD squad begins to investigate you, even if you have an immaculate record as a cop, they dig until they find something that they can point to as being misconduct or corruption, said former police detective Sid Franes, who worked with a former IAD lieutenant in New York. In Fields case it appears they were claiming he was prejudiced against Muslims and he wasnt fit to lead police officers, Franes added. When Fields took legal action against his police department, it ended up before the federal judges who sat on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and the court upheld the punishment of Capt. Fields. In essence the court ruled that the decorated cop should have visited the mosque and brought his officers with him as he was ordered to do by the citys political leaders. Here is another example of lawyers wearing black robes telling Americans what church services they must attend. Would they have ruled this way if it were a Muslim being ordered to attend and participate in a religious service at a Hindu temple? Or at a Catholic Cathedral? I think not, notes former police lieutenant and campus police chief Lloyd Herrington. Fields was part of an object lesson to follow a politically-correct orthodoxy thats taking over the nation and its public and private sector institutions, Herrington said. Now Capt. Fields, with the help of a legal foundation that fights for constitutional rights, especially First Amendment rights, is aiming to take his legal battle to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Thomas Moore Law Center is providing Fields with pro-bono legal help in fighting not only a major city police department but also a federal court that has lost its way with a warped understanding of the U.S. Constitution and America values The law centers lead counsel, Richard Thompson, said in a statement: “This case is another startling example of applying a double standard when Christian civil rights are involved. If this were a Catholic or Protestant prayer event, I am positive no Muslim police officer would have been ordered to attend. Further, no federal court would have approved the punishment of a Muslim officer had he refused to attend.” The Muslim event was characterized as the mosques Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, but it allegedly had nothing to do with appreciation of police officers. According to Fields attorneys, Law Enforcement Appreciation Day involved the captain and his officers taking a tour of the mosque, attending a meeting with the mosques leadership, attending the Muslims weekly prayer service, acquainting the police officers with Islamic religious reading material, and lectures on Islamic beliefs. examiner/article/police-captain-punished-for-refusing-to-attend-muslim-brotherhood-linked-mosque
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:45:00 +0000
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