Muslim Advocates
Muslims welcome shuttering of NYPD spying unit
By Omar Sacirbey — April 16, 2014
(RNS) Muslims in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, where the spying took place, said the program intimidated Muslims from attending mosques, speaking in public and making charitable contributions to Muslim charities.
Civil rights groups appeal ruling allowing NYPD to spy on Muslims
By Omar Sacirbey — March 21, 2014
(RNS) Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed a federal judge’s ruling that affirmed the right of the New York City Police Department to spy on Muslims.
Muslims criticize judge’s dismissal of NYPD spying lawsuit
By Omar Sacirbey — February 21, 2014
(RNS) Muslim Americans and civil rights groups are criticizing a federal court decision that dismissed a lawsuit alleging the New York City Police Department illegally spied on Muslim Americans in New Jersey.
Muslims oppose possible Raymond Kelly bid for Homeland Security
By Omar Sacirbey — August 1, 2013
(RNS) Muslims say that as head of the nation’s biggest police force, the commissioner oversaw a spying program that targeted Muslims based solely on their religion, showed poor judgment by participating in a virulently anti-Islamic film, and approved a report on terrorism that equated innocuous behavior such as quitting smoking with signs of radicalization.
Muslims criticize Bloomberg veto of NYPD watchdog
By Omar Sacirbey — July 25, 2013
(RNS) Muslim-American civil rights groups are criticizing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for vetoing a bill on Tuesday that would have created an independent inspector general to oversee the New York City Police Department.
Former U.S. solider sues NYPD over Muslim surveillance
By Jason Grant — July 11, 2012
(RNS) Syed Farhaj Hassan took a lot of pride in being one of the relatively few Muslim Americans to join the military and then go to war in Iraq. But Hassan said that he’s been “betrayed” by the New York City police department's spying on Muslim communities. By Jason Grant.
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