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Chronology of Islam in America (2006)
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
May 2006
Muslim Americans join immigration marches nationwide
May 1: In solidarity with immigration activists around the country, the Muslim Public Affairs Council as well as the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Los Angeles (CAIR-LA), the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, the L.A. Latino Muslim Association (LALMA), the Muslim American Society - Los Angeles (MAS-LA), and the Muslim Students Association - West (MSA West) joined millions calling for comprehensive immigration reform in at least a dozen cities across the country today. In Los Angeles, Muslim Americans joined more than one million people who attended two Immigrants' Rights marches in downtown and along Wilshire Boulevard. The nationwide day of action calling for immigration reform has been described in recent days as one of the largest rallies in American history. Mobilizing local Muslim communities around the issue of immigration has brought Muslim Americans into the fold of activism with people from diverse racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds around common issues of concern. Among the most controversial components of HR 4437 is a provision which seeks to criminalize people individuals and institutions for providing humanitarian assistance to undocumented individuals. This would include physicians, educators, and members of the clergy. (MPAC Bulletin)
Informer in bomb plot trial tells of his visits to mosques
May 1: The paid police informer who is the central witness at the trial of a Pakistani immigrant charged with plotting to blow up the Herald Square (N.Y.) subway station testified that he collected a wide range of information on his visits to two city mosques, from the tenor of the sermons to how many people attended the services. The informer, Osama Eldawoody, 50, secretly recorded roughly two dozen conversations about the plot with the immigrant, Shahawar Matin Siraj, in the summer of 2004 many of them incriminating. He was questioned by Mr. Siraj's lawyer about the information he provided to the police on his frequent visits to mosques in Brooklyn and Staten Island. The visits occurred over roughly 13 months in 2003 and 2004, both before and after the informer met Mr. Siraj. Regardless of the outcome of the trial for Mr. Siraj, 23, who faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, Mr. Eldawoody's testimony is shedding light on what seem to be new police tactics to uncover terrorist plots before they come to fruition. While a federal judge gave the police expanded powers in 2003, critics have nonetheless raised objections to the use of informers in places of worship, political events and other gatherings. (New York Times)
FBI sought data on thousands in 2005
May 2: The FBI sought personal information on thousands of Americans last year from banks, Internet service providers and other companies without having to seek approval from a court, according to new data released by the Justice Department. In a report to the top leaders of both parties in the House, the department disclosed that the FBI had issued more than 9,200 "national security letters," or NSLs, seeking detailed information about more than 3,500 U.S. citizens or legal residents in 2005. The report represents the first official count of NSL use. It was required under legislation that extended the USA Patriot Act anti-terrorism law. The count does not include other such letters that are issued by the FBI to obtain more limited subscriber information from companies, such as a person's name, address or other identifying data, according to the report. Sources have said that would include thousands of additional letters and may be the largest category of NSLs issued. The Washington Post reported in November that the FBI now issues more than 30,000 NSLs each year, including subscriber requests. (Washington Post)
Muslims accosted by 'United 93' viewers
May 2: The Arizona office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported today that several young Muslim women were verbally abused by two people who said they recently saw the movie "United 93" about one of the planes hijacked on 9/11. The three Muslim women say a white middle-aged couple approached them on April 29 at the Desert Ridge Marketplace in Scottsdale, Ariz., and asked whether they were Muslim. After learning that the women were in fact Muslims, the couple indicated they had seen "United 93" and then said: "Take off your f***ing burqas and get the f*** out of this country. We don't want you in this country. Go home." [Note: Two of the three women are American-born citizens.] (CAIR Bulletin)
US government creating "climate of torture"
May 3: Amnesty International today made public a report detailing its concerns about torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners and detainees both in the US and in US detention sites around the world. "Although the US government continues to assert its condemnation of torture and ill-treatment, these statements contradict what is happening in practice," said Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive Director Of Amnesty International USA. "The US government is not only failing to take steps to eradicate torture it is actually creating a climate in which torture and other ill-treatment can flourish -- including by trying to narrow the definition of torture." The Amnesty International report describes how measures taken by the US government in response to widespread torture and ill-treatment of detainees held in US military custody in the context of the "war on terror" have been far from adequate. This is despite evidence that much of the ill-treatment stemmed directly from official policy and practice. The report reviews several cases where detainees held in US custody in Afghanistan and Iraq have died under torture. To this day, no US agent has been prosecuted for "torture" or "war crimes". (Amnesty International)
Suit by Muslim men claims delay in citizenship
May 4: Ten Chicago area Muslim men filed a class-action lawsuit against the federal government today alleging their quest to become U.S. citizens is being delayed because of their Islamic faith and male gender. The Syrian, Moroccan, Jordanian, Pakistani and Egyptian natives have no criminal records, but they have been waiting one to four years for the government to make a decision on their applications, Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center attorney Chuck Roth said. Some of their wives applied at the same time and have since received their U.S. citizenship. The plaintiffs, including the Council on American Islamic Relations' Chicago office, agree the government must conduct background checks on all potential citizens. But they say Muslim men, more than any other group, have their cases delayed too often with no explanation. (Sun Times)
US Muslim women Americanizing mosques, book finds
May 10: The face Muslim women present to America is as diverse as the faith itself -- and one that is changing as waves of often impoverished immigrants come to the United States. That is part of the picture that emerges from a new book shedding light on the lives of Muslim women by way of well-crafted profiles of more than four dozen of them, cutting across cultures and lifestyles. "Part of what we found is that the United States is one of the best places in the world for women to practice Islam because they do have freedom, because of our ideas about women having careers and a voice in houses of worship," said Donna Gehrke-White, author of "The Face Behind the Veil" (Citadel Press). "Muslim women here have much more to say in how the religion is practiced," challenging some traditions such as separate entrances and second-rate worship spaces in some mosques, she said in an interview. "In some countries women don't even go to mosques." (Reuters)
CAIR calls for special counsel on NSA phone data spy program
May 11: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) has built a giant database of Americans' phone records. According to a USA Today article, the NSA "has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth…The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans - most of whom aren't suspected of any crime." The phone records monitoring program, reportedly authorized by the president shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks, authorizes the NSA to bypass a secret court set up to provide warrants for such surveillance. In its statement, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said: "The recent revelations of the secret domestic spying program should be an issue of concern for all Americans, but especially for American Muslims who have been previously targeted in other surveillance measures such as the mosque radiation monitoring, and the warrantless wiretapping program. It is a moral, legal and political imperative for Congress to ensure that civil liberties and the right to privacy are maintained, even during times of international conflict and crisis. An independent investigator should be appointed to look into whether the NSA phone data surveillance program violated existing laws." (CAIR Bulletin)
Muslim candidate receives endorsement of Democratic-Farmer-Labor party Detroit
May 15: Detroit State Representative Keith Ellison's style and personal history are under inspection as never before since he received the DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor party) endorsement in stunningly strong fashion May 6 to succeed Rep. Martin Sabo in the Fifth District Congressional seat. The seat, which Sabo held for 28 years, has been a DFL stronghold, although Ellison appears likely to face a challenge in the September primary, and Republican, Independence and Green Party candidates are running in November. Ellison became a Muslim while at Wayne State University in Detroit, and if he wins, he would apparently be the only Muslim in Congress. He said he became interested in Islam after reading 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' but that there was no 'epiphany' that led him to the faith. 'I just started studying it and found it interesting and here I am,' he said.' I lead my life in a way to not make religion a big deal.'" (Detroit Star Tribune)
Gloomy look at U.S.-Muslim relations
May 16: With a long history of conflict, hostilities and misperceptions as the backdrop, it was no wonder that the "State of US-Islamic World Relations" was described in gloomy terms at a University of Delaware panel discussion tonight. About 200 people packed a room in Kirkbride Hall to hear five panelists -- academics and policy analysts -- describe facets of the tension between the United States and Islamic states around the globe. One of them, UD professor Stuart Kaufman, traced the worldwide decline in public support of the United States. He said the country is in a state of "low-intensity war with the entire Muslim world," and ended his stinging commentary on the "catastrophic, inept" foreign policy by saying he had no answers. "I'll just leave being really depressed about the Middle East," he said. (The News Journal)
ACLU seeks FBI records on monitoring of Islamic groups
May 16: Six groups, including the Anaheim-based Council on American Islamic Relations in Southern California, filed a Freedom of Information Act request today asking about suspected law enforcement monitoring of Islamic religious institutions. The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed the request on behalf of CAIR, the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, area mosques and six leaders in the Muslim community. The Freedom of Information Act, which outlines request procedures, was enacted by Congress in 1966 to give the public greater access to the federal government's records. Ranjana Natarajan, the attorney handling the matter, said the ACLU decided to request FBI records after working with the Muslim community and conducting "know your rights" presentations at mosques.Natarajan said worshippers at mosques have been asked what their imam is preaching, where they go and what they do on pilgrimages to Mecca, and for details about religious practices. (The Orange County Register)
DNC Chairman Howard Dean meets with Muslim American leaders
May 17: Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean met today with a diverse group of Muslim leaders to talk about the Democratic agenda for change along with efforts to reach out to members of the religious community early on in the election process. Muslim leaders joined Chairman Dean in an informal discussion in which they talked about civil liberties, the Patriot Act, immigration, poverty, engagement of Muslim Americans in the political process, ways the DNC can best reach out to the community and other issues important to Muslim Americans. This meeting was part of a larger outreach by the DNC's Faith in Action Initiative, a mission to involve state parties and religious leaders from around the country in an ongoing dialogue about their shared values within the Democratic Party. Chairman Dean issued the following statement: "With millions of Muslims in America, Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in this country. Muslims mirror the diverse melting pot that is America, including peoples of many regional, ethnic and racial backgrounds. They are deeply patriotic, and they make invaluable contributions to our society. It is my hope that this meeting will be the first in a series of on-going discussions with leaders of the Muslim American community. We had a productive discussion about a wide range of subjects and opened a healthy dialogue on our shared values, including the protection of religious freedom and civil liberties. No American should be subjected to discrimination because of his or her race, ethnic background or religious beliefs. It is our obligation as Democrats and as Americans to speak out against such discrimination, whenever and wherever it rears its ugly head. Likewise, as part of Democrats' national outreach efforts, it is no longer enough to say that Muslim Americans should have a place at the table; more importantly, we must have diversity on our tickets. I look forward to continuing to work with the leaders of the Muslim American community to advance our shared values and goals for America." (U.S. Newswire)
Detective was 'walking camera' among city Muslims
May 18: A young police detective testified today at the Herald Square bombing plot trial that he was recruited from the Police Academy 13 months after 9/11 to work deep undercover in the Muslim community to investigate Islamic extremists. The detective, a Muslim who came to America from Bangladesh when he was 7, testified that he was a 23-year-old college graduate when he was plucked from the academy in October 2002. He took an apartment in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where, he testified, his assignment was to be a "walking camera" among Muslims there. His testimony in federal court in Brooklyn confirmed what many Muslims have believed since the Sept. 11 attacks: that law enforcement agencies have worked to infiltrate their community during terrorism investigations. It also revealed the extraordinary steps the department took to create a fictitious identity so a Muslim investigator could live for years in an insular neighborhood where people have become highly suspicious of the authorities. (New York Times)
Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation
May 23: Although the Bush administration continues to exploit September 11 to justify domestic spying, unprecedented spending and a permanent state of war, a new Zogby poll reveals that less than half of the American public trusts the official 9/11 story or believes the attacks were adequately investigated. The Zogby poll is the first scientific survey of Americans’ belief in a 9/11 cover up or the need to investigate possible US government complicity, and was commissioned to inform deliberations at the June “9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming Our Future” conference in Chicago. Poll results indicate 42% believe there has indeed been a cover up (with 10% unsure) and 45% think “Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success” (with 8% unsure). (Zogby International)
Feds' linking of restaurant owner to Hezbollah prompts criticism
May 23: Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, today criticized federal prosecutors for claiming that an Arab businessman has terrorist ties without actually charging him with terrorism-related offenses.The businessman, Talal Chahine, is the owner of the La Shish restaurant chain. He and his ex-wife, Elfat El Aouar, are charged with tax evasion. The government says they concealed $16 million or more in cash received by the southeast Michigan restaurants. The government claims in recent a court filing U.S. District Court in Detroit that Chahine has ties to top officials of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The U.S. classifies Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Dawud Walid called the government's allegations without formal charges "really tacky." (MLIVE)
Pakistani Immigrant Convicted in NYC Plot
May 24: A high school dropout who drew the attention of undercover police with his anti-American rants after Sept. 11 was convicted Wednesday of plotting to blow up one of Manhattan's busiest subway stations in retaliation for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. A federal jury in Brooklyn deliberated two days before convicting Shahawar Matin Siraj of conspiracy and other charges in a case that cast a spotlight on how authorities sought to monitor radical Muslims after the 2001 terrorist attacks. He faces up to life in prison.Siraj, 23, listened to the verdict with downcast eyes. The defense had sought to portray him as an impressionable simpleton who was lured into a phony plot by a paid informant eager to earn his keep. Prosecutors disputed that claim, arguing that even if it was not the defendant's idea to bomb a subway station, no law-abiding citizen would have gone along with it. (Houston Chronicle)
Two Chicago companies supply meals to meet Muslim, Jewish military personnel needs
May 24: Dietary requirements of Muslim and Jewish military personnel were long overlooked by the armed forces, leaving many strict followers to survive on peanut butter, fruits and vegetables, and cereal. Thanks in large part to two Chicago companies, these troops now have everything from lamb and lentil stew, and cheese tortellini, without feeling a burden on their consciences. My Own Meals Inc. and J&M Food Products Co. are the U.S. military's sole suppliers of prepackaged meals that meet Muslim and Jewish dietary standards. Produced and packaged under the careful eye of Jewish and Muslim inspectors, the kosher and Halal meals Ready to Eat have only been available in the military since the mid-1990s. Jewish or Muslim personnel make up .5 percent of the U.S. military, said Mary Anne Jackson, president of My Own Meals. (Medill News Service)
America under Bush "doesn't feel like it has to play by the rules," says Prof Cole
May 25: The U.S. government has a habit of creating laws that strip foreign nationals of their freedoms then expanding them to take away rights of American citizens, a Georgetown University Law Center professor said today. David Cole delivered the keynote speech at the University of South Florida for a discussion titled "Executive Power in the War on Terror: Are There Any Limits?" Cole began his remarks to the more than 250 people with a history lesson about a bomb explosion in 1919 outside the home of then-U.S. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, one in a series of explosions in different cities that day. The government responded, Cole said, by rounding up foreign nationals in what became known as the "Palmer raids."J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director, focused much of his time on trying to expand the Palmer raids so the government controlled U.S. citizens' rights, Cole said. "These were mistakes that we should avoid, not mistakes we should repeat," said Cole. "The Bush administration has done just that." (St. Petersburg Times)
Court upholds decision to deny Muslim center
May 25: Upholding a decision by the borough's Board of Adjustment, a Superior Court Judge last week denied the Muslim Center of Somerset (NJ) a conditional use variance. The ruling is the latest in a step of obstacles the center has faced in its quest to run operations out of small house on Southside Avenue. Had the judge approved the request, his decision would have cleared the way for the county's first mosque. The center acquired the Southside Avenue property in 1998 and had used the facility as a home for its imam -- or spiritual leader -- and as a place for its five daily prayer services. When the borough realized the center was in violation of parking ordinances, the center applied for variances and site plan approval, which included a proposal for a small expansion. Since then, the center has been renting space at the Redwood Inn in Bridgewater and the Manville Elks for its services. The board rejected the application last June, but when the center sued the borough and board last year, Superior Court Judge Peter Buchsbaum ordered the board to revisit the application, this time considering its beneficial use. But even with conditions in place, the board found the mosque put too much of a burden on the residential neighborhood and denied the application for a second time. (New Jersey Reporter)
Undercover work deepens police-Muslim tensions
May 27: It is no secret to the Muslim immigrants of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, that spies live among them.
It is another thing for them to be officially revealed. Over the last several weeks, during the trial of a Pakistani immigrant who was convicted on May 24 of plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station, Muslims in Bay Ridge learned that two agents of the police had been planted in the neighborhood and were instrumental to the case. They absorbed the testimony of an Egyptian-born police informer who had recorded the license plate numbers of worshipers at a mosque. They heard that an undercover detective, originally from Bangladesh, had been sent to Bay Ridge as a "walking camera." The trial's revelations, and its outcome for the defendant, Shahawar Matin Siraj, have brought a bitter reckoning among Muslims in the city. Many see the police tactics unveiled in the case as proof that the authorities - both in New York and around the nation - have been aggressive, even underhanded in their approach to Muslims…..And despite the conviction of Mr. Siraj, who was found guilty on all four of the counts he faced, some Muslim leaders remain convinced that he was entrapped, including an imam who knew the informer and had found him to be suspicious. (New York Times)
Arab candidate sues after losing endorsement over 9/11 comments
May 27: An Arab-American political candidate who was dumped by Passaic county Democratic leaders for comments some people interpreted as sympathetic to suicide bombers is suing to get on the ballot. Democrats put forward Sam Merhi's name as a nominee for a county freeholder seat in the June 6 primary, but withdrew it in March amid political backlash from remarks Merhi made in 2002 about the 9/11 attacks. Merhi, a Totowa (NJ) businessman active in Democratic politics, said during a political fundraiser that he was outraged by the 9/11 attacks. When asked whether those feelings also applied to Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel, Merhi said he did not see a comparison. He later elaborated, saying that while all terrorist attacks are wrong, 9/11 was unique because it was on such a massive scale. The lawsuit alleges that Merhi was the victim of anti-Arab prejudice, saying that his removal as a candidate violated his civil rights and the rules of the Democratic organization. The suit calls for Merhi's name to be reinstated on the primary ballot. (Newsday)
Delay in citizenship process for Arab-sounding immigrants
May 28: Immigrant advocates say hundreds - if not thousands - of men with Arabic-sounding or Muslim names are experiencing endless delays in what should be the pro forma final step of the citizenship application process. "I understand the burden that the government has in wanting to make sure that all security checks go through," said Dev Viswanath, a Queens attorney who said he has two clients who have waited years for their swearing-in ceremonies. "But having to wait two or three years ... is just ridiculous." Last month, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee launched a national legal campaign to get the government to resolve hundreds of cases. More than 40 lawyers filed lawsuits in federal courts, requesting that a judge step in and force U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to complete the stalled naturalization cases. In response, CIS decided it will stop interviewing people whose FBI background checks have not cleared. Bill Carter, an FBI spokesman, said the delays began in 2002, when CIS booted 2.7 million names of applicants back to the FBI for additional checks, causing a backlog. (Daily News)
Four librarians finally break silence in records case
May 30: Four Connecticut librarians who had been barred from revealing that they had received a request for patrons' records from the federal government spoke out today, expressing frustration about the sweeping powers given to law enforcement authorities by the USA Patriot Act. The librarians took turns at the microphone at their lawyers' office and publicly identified themselves as the collective John Doe who had sued the United States attorney general after their organization received a confidential demand for patron records in a secret counterterrorism case. They had been ordered, under the threat of prosecution, not to talk about the request with anyone. The librarians, who all have leadership roles at a small consortium called Library Connection in Windsor, Conn., said they opposed allowing the government unchecked power to demand library records and were particularly incensed at having been subject to the open-ended nondisclosure order.The organization won part of its court fight last week, when a three-judge panel of the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan dismissed the government's appeal and allowed a lower court judge's revocation of the nondisclosure order to stand. But the four librarians say they remain concerned that other provisions of the Patriot Act could deter people from using libraries. (New York Times)
Magistrate rules that government must reveal monitoring
May 30: A federal magistrate in Brooklyn today insisted that government lawyers defending former Attorney General John Ashcroft and other top officials in a lawsuit brought by former immigrant detainees cannot dodge the plaintiffs' persistent and unwelcome question: Are members of the United States trial team and likely witnesses — including Mr. Ashcroft and Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director — aware of any secret government monitoring of communications between the plaintiffs and their lawyers? "Plaintiffs' effort to learn whether their conversations with their attorneys were monitored by the government is not a mere fishing expedition based on unfounded speculation," the magistrate, Judge Steven M. Gold, wrote in an 11-page decision. The order rejected the government's request that he reconsider a similar order that he made orally on March 7. He noted that "the government's electronic surveillance of individuals suspected of links to terrorism has received widespread publicity and has even been acknowledged by the president of the United States." And he cited findings by the inspector general that on more than 40 occasions, staff members of the Metropolitan Detention Center secretly video-recorded visits between lawyers and Muslim immigrants swept up and detained there after the Sept. 11 attacks, and later deported after being cleared of links to terrorism. (New York Times)
Alamo car rental guilty of religious bias federal court rules in EEOC lawsuit
May 30: In a legal victory for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Arizona Federal District Court Judge Roslyn Silver ruled that Alamo Car Rental committed post-9/11 backlash discrimination based on religion when it terminated a Somali customer sales representative in December 2001 for refusing to remove her head scarf during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In the first post-9/11 backlash case brought by the EEOC's Phoenix District Office, the court took the unusual step of finding the religious discrimination so clear cut based on the pleadings that it did not need to be resolved by a jury. "It is extremely rare that a court will find discrimination based solely on the pleadings," said Mary Jo O'Neill, Regional Attorney for the Phoenix District Office. "The court found undisputed evidence that Alamo should have approved this employee's request to wear her head scarf as a religious accommodation or proposed a reasonable alternative." (CAIR Bulletin)
CAIR calls on Rumsfeld to resign over Iraq massacre
May 31: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over reports that U.S. Marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians last November in the city of Haditha. Survivors say American troops shot the men, women and children after a bombing killed a Marine on November 19. Media reports indicate that murder charges may be brought against some of the Marines involved in the incident. In its statement, CAIR said: "We believe Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation, and bringing those involved in the massacre to justice, would send a clear message that America will not tolerate or excuse the kind of atrocities that reportedly took place in Haditha. This stain must be removed from the reputation of America's military personnel." A number of retired generals have similarly called for Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation over his execution of the war in Iraq. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), a former Marine, said U.S. troops "killed innocent civilians in cold blood" and has called the Haditha massacre a bigger setback to U.S. interests in Iraq than the Abu Ghraib scandal. (CAIR Bulletin)
Judge sides with Muslim in Ramadan scarf lawsuit
May 31: A national car rental firm illegally discriminated against a Muslim woman in the wake of 9/11 by refusing to let her wear a scarf during the holy month of Ramadan, a federal judge has ruled in Phoenix, AZ. U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver rejected arguments by Alamo Rent-A-Car that it could not exempt Bilan Nur from its corporate dress code. Silver said the company made no efforts to reasonably accommodate Nur's beliefs and failed to show that making any accommodations would have caused the company undue hardships. In fact, Silver noted that the company's regional manager admitted under questioning that the only hardship Alamo might suffer is the image that the firm has with customers. Nur's claim was among the first filed by EEOC dealing with anti-Muslim discrimination after the terrorist attacks. (Capitol Media Services)
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