CAIR-NY is a co-founder of the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC), created in 2007 following the release of the New York City Police Department report, “Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat.” MACLC was created for the purpose of articulating a New York-specific Muslim perspective on homeland security, civil liberties, counterterrorism, and law enforcement decision-making. CAIR-NY is a founding member of the Coalition, and a current member of the steering committee.
In 2008, MACLC issued an advocacy paper titled "CountertERRORism Policy: MACLC’s Critique of the NYPD’s Report on Homegrown Radicalism." Co-authored by CAIR-NY, this paper highlights the 2007 NYPD Report’s failure to provide practical counter-terrorism solutions that target real offenders. Instead the NYPD Report puts forth a model of radicalization that if implemented as policy would ultimately lead to racial profiling of mainstream Muslims.
