The NYPD has another kerfuffle on its hands, this time relating to its screening of the propaganda flick, the Third Jihad:

And now, after months and months of stonewalling, The Brennan Center for Justice has forced the NYPD to release documents [below] relating to the documentary, and it turns out The Third Jihad was shown “on a continuous loop” during “the sign-in, medical and administrative orientation process.” It’s unclear how long the loop ran—the Times speculates it was shown for anywhere between three months and one year of training. But internal NYPD documents confirm that the film was screened for 68 lieutenants, 159 sergeants, 31 detectives and 1,231 patrol officers.

The film also includes excerpts from an interview with NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly. Browne maintains the interview segments were lifted from a previous interview with Kelly and used without his permission, but the department has no plans to ask The Third Jihad filmmakers to remove it. The NYPD also has no plans to “correct any false impressions the movie might have left behind,” the Times reports.

One of the cops who first informed Robbins about the film said at the time, “It was so ridiculously one-sided. It just made Muslims look like the enemy. It was straight propaganda.”

The movie includes archive footage from former and current police commissioners, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, other politicians, historian Bernard Lewis, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali among others. The premise for the movie, narrated by Zuhdi Jasser, is a secret manifesto for “The Third Jihad” in which Islamic radicals infiltrate American society in order to bring down Western civilization.

This is a movie touted by Pamela Geller, Robert Spenser, SIOA and other anti-Muslim groups.

It’s a movie that had no place in the training curriculum and which presents a seriously distorted picture of Muslims in America. In fact, one could see parallels between this movie and those that denigrated Jews in Germany as the Nazis rose to power.