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Happy Bill of Rights Day:
December 15 marks the 216th anniversary of the first ten amendments
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: December 15 is Bill of Rights Day. It marks the 216th anniversary of the ratification of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Unfortunately the anniversary is neglected by most Americans for its historical significance. Even worse, our government neglects the Bill of Rights by violating it on a day-to-day basis. Read More
Senate hearing on:
“The Role of Local Law Enforcement in Battling Violent Islamic Extremism”
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Radicalization is a buzz word these days. The New York Police Department presented its controversial report at the Senate hearing of October 30, 2007, entitled: “The Role of Local Law Enforcement in Battling Violent Islamic Extremism.” Police officers from Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Miami/Dade County also discussed their approaches to counter “the threat of homegrown Islamist radicalization.” The Report, first published in August last which lays ground work for profiling of Muslims, contains language suggesting that a majority of Muslims in the United States present a threat to public order. Read More
Border interrogation of American Muslims justified
AMP Report: A US appeals court in New York ruled on November 26, 2007 that the government acted correctly when interrogating a group of American Muslims returning to the US from an Islamic conference in Toronto, Canada in December 2004. Read More
The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act 2007
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly passed the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism (read Thought Crime) Prevention Act of 2007. The bill, passed on October 23 by a landslide vote of 404 to 6, has been referred to the Senate where it awaits scrutiny from the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The bill's vague and open-ended language hides its true intent as to what "violent radicalization" and "homegrown terrorism" are? It will be whatever the administration says they are. Read More
Muslims dismayed by excessive sentence of Ashqar
AMP Report: Council on American-Muslim Relations, a leading civic rights group, has expressed dismay at the more than 11 year sentence given to Dr. Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a Palestinian-American and former professor at Washington's Howard University, for refusing to testify before a grand jury looking into possible terror financing in the Middle East. Read More
LA Police scraps Muslim profiling program
AMP Report: Amid an uproar by Muslim and civil right groups, the LA Police Department has shelved its program to ‘map’ (read profile) Muslims in the Greater Los Angeles where at least 500,000 Muslims reside. After a meeting with the Muslim leaders, LAPD Chief William Bratton declared the plan “dead on arrival.” “It is over and not just put on the side,” said Chief Bratton. Read More
LA Police program to profile Muslims
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: In the latest government move to intimidate and marginalize the American Muslims, the Los Angeles Police Department has announced a program to “Map” (read profile) Muslim communities in southern California. There are estimated 500,000 Muslims living in the greater Los Angeles area, including Orange and Riverside Counties, which make its concentration of Muslims the second largest in the United States, after New York City. Read More
A tale of three show-case trials of Muslims in America
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: There cannot be two opinions on the priority of the security and safety of the nation but one wonders if such headline grabbing arrests and trials made the nation more safe or they are being used to maintain a state of fear among the masses and usurp their civil rights in the name of national security. Read More
Mistrial ordered in Holy Land charity case
AMP Report: In Dallas, Texas, U.S. District Judge Joe Fish, declared a mistrial today in the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development charity case after jurors failed to reach a verdict. Read More
Islamophobia week on US campuses
Spreading hatred under the guise of patriotism
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Borrowing from President Bush’s terminology ‘Islamo-Fascists,’ a notorious band of ultra-right wing Arabphobes and Islamophobes is embarked on a new project to spread fear and hatred under the guise of patriotism and freedom. Packaged as “Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week,” David Horowitz, a neo-conservative polemicist, is leading the Arab/Muslim-basing efforts at campuses across the nation. Read More
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