Three Muslim Americans subjected to FBI surveillance inside their places of worship will ask the Supreme Court to allow a religious discrimination lawsuit against the agency to move forward despite government concern about national security.
Yassir Fazaga, a former imam at the Orange County Islamic Foundation, and Ali Uddin Malik and Yasser AbdelRahim, both members of the Islamic Center of Irvine, allege the government and its agents illegally targeted members of the faith communities solelyThe FBI has acknowledged running a surveillance program at several Southern California mosques between 2006 and 2007 in a hunt for potential terrorists, but the Bureau has not publicly revealed the basis for its covert operation or directly...
"I'm very angry. Privacy is very important," said Fazaga."To know the government is doing this makes me not just angry, but humiliated."None of the plaintiffs or the places of worship have been implicated in any known criminal activity or federal charges. A federal district court sided with the FBI, but a panel of judges reversed that decision on appeal in favor of the Muslim men.
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