(WASHINGTON D.C., 11/8/2021) – Today, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and CAIR’s Greater Los Angeles area chapter (CAIR-LA) held a news conference and rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court with representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California, the UCLA School of Law’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy, and the plaintiffs in FBI v. Fazaga after oral arguments in that Supreme Court case were heard this morning.
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BACKGROUNDER:
The case FBI v. Fazaga stems from an FBI operation in 2006 and 2007 in which agents sent a paid informant to some of the largest, most diverse mosques in Orange County, California and instructed him to pose as a convert to Islam.
The plaintiffs — Yassir Fazaga, Ali Uddin Malik, and Yasser AbdelRahim — assert that the FBI cannot escape accountability for violating their religious freedom by invoking “state secrets.”
SEE: Muslim Americans Bring the Fight Against Surveillance to the Supreme Court (TIME)
https://time.com/6097712/muslim-american-surveillance-supreme-court-sept-11/
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