CAIR: The FBI’s Plan to ‘Profile’ Muslims
The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have required the FBI to have some evidence of wrongdoing before it opens an investigation. The impending new rules, which would be implemented later this summer, […]
CAIR-OH: Muslim Civic Leaders Believe Shooting about Race, Ethnicity
Where authorities see an assault, Muslim civic leaders see an attack with all the markings of a hate crime. They hope to persuade police and federal agents to continue investigating the shooting of Fazliddin Yakubov. On Monday, Cleveland police announced they had charged William Neal, 18, of Cleveland, with felonious assault in the shooting of […]
FL: Al-Arian Seeks Release While Awaiting Trial
Attorneys for Sami Al-Arian are asking a federal judge in Virginia to release the former University of South Florida professor on bail while he awaits trial on charges of criminal contempt. Al-Arian has completed his federal sentence for helping a terrorist group, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but is still behind bars because he refused to […]
AK: Senator Endorses Book’s Prejudiced View of Muslims
A few years ago, I was applying for jobs in the Lower 48 when I came upon a particularly promising one. It was a live-in assistant to a wealthy retired couple. When it looked like the job might be a “go,” I sent them a picture that was taken of me holding my 18-month-old daughter. […]
Canada: Mosque Targeted with Hate Messages
The words and symbols are hateful and chilling. Codiac RCMP are attempting to link a series of spray-painted messages, including swastikas and racist declarations, at five different Moncton locations during the last 48 hours. RCMP Cpl. Mike Gaudet said graffiti is common in Metro Moncton, but most messages are harmless messages, such as some that […]
U.N. Lawyers Say Bosnian-Serbs Burned Muslims Alive
Bosnian Serb cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were accused on Wednesday of imprisoning and burning alive some 140 Muslims and summarily shooting others in some of the cruellest ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian war. Both men face charges of murder, extermination and cruel treatment at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague for violence […]
CAIR: Report of Mosque Surveillance Concerns Muslims
While there have been allegations in the past of government investigation of mosques on issues relating to terrorism, the recent report, first featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper, is said to be the first confirmation that surveillance is taking place.An article in the Los Angeles Times (May 29) reports that information about the alleged […]
CA: Muslim Woman’s Suit Claims She Was Fired over Hijab
A Muslim woman filed a discrimination suit Tuesday against a Sacramento company, alleging she was fired because she wanted to wear a religious head scarf on the job. Zaylanin Southavilay, 30, who is of Vietnamese ancestry, is suing National Credit Acceptance, a debt collection agency where she worked for 17 days in September. The suit […]
DC: AG to Address Senate on Religious Profiling Policy
Attorney General Michael Mukasey says the Bush administration will do everything it can to make sure the government has what it needs to fight terrorists before a new president takes over. But civil rights activists say that shouldn’t include letting the FBI start using terrorist profiles that potentially single out Muslims, Arabs and other racial […]
DC: Congress Bypasses Appropriations to Up Israel Aid
While almost all federally financed programs were denied any funding increase for the coming year, aid to Israel from the United States will increase thanks to a legislative loophole and some deft maneuvering by pro-Israel lobbyists. Congress bypassed the normal appropriation process on June 26 when it approved a $170 million raise in military aid […]