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FBI CREATES CLIMATE OF FEAR |
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Orange County Register Editorial
Supporters of the Patriot Act and other expansive efforts to fight the "war on terror" often mock claims by civil libertarians that aggressive federal spying powers within the United States undermines civil liberties. We've often heard conservatives ask critics to name anyone who has lost any freedoms because of the government's post-9/11 powers. |
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FBI PLANTING SPYS IN U.S. MOSQUES, MUSLIM GROUPS SAY |
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CNN
Ten U.S. Muslim organizations threatened this week to cease working with the FBI, citing "McCarthy-era tactics" by the agency, including efforts to covertly infiltrate California mosques.
The groups claim the FBI has sent undercover agents posing as worshippers into mosques, pressured Muslims to become informants, labeled civil rights advocates as criminals and spread misinformation.
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SENATE QUESTIONS FBI DIRECTOR ABOUT MUSLIM RELATIONS |
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WASHINGTON, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire
A At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, FBI Director Robert Mueller was questioned about a statement by the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, suggesting that the groups are considering suspending outreach relations with the FBI over recent incidents in which American mosques and Muslim groups have been targeted.
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U.S. MUSLIM GROUPS MULL FBI BOYCOTT |
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WASHINGTON - Islam Online.net
Frustrated by mistrust, suspicion and provocative actions targeting their law-abiding community, the major American Muslim groups are considering to rupture all outreach relations with the FBI and the Justice Department.
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FBI AND AMERICAN MUSLIMS AT ODDS |
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Christian Science Monitor
Law enforcement efforts to root out home-grown terrorists are jeopardized by deteriorating relations between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Muslim and Arab-American communities.
The situation began last fall when the FBI quietly withdrew formal relations with all local chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the largest Muslim American civil rights organizations. The FBI cited "a number of distinct narrow issues" that it has refused to make public.
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MUSLIM AMERICANS AT ODDS OVER FBI CONTACT |
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Washington Post
A behind-the-scenes controversy has broken out among Muslim American leaders over a coalition of Muslim organizations' threat to cut off contact with the FBI because of what it calls the agency's "McCarthy-era" tactics.
The coalition of two dozen Muslim American groups said last week that the FBI's treatment of one of its member organizations and what it regards as inappropriate FBI infiltration of mosques have disrupted the growing trust between the agency and the Muslim community. The coalition blasted the FBI, saying in a statement that "these McCarthy-era tactics are detrimental to a free society."
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MUSLIM GROUPS ACCUSE FBI OF SPYING ON MOSQUES |
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| Al-Arabiya
American Muslim groups are considering breaking ties with the FBI in light of a string of recent accusations that the government agency was sending spies into mosques across the United States to act as "agent provocateurs" and target their law-abiding citizens.
In the latest battle between the FBI and American Muslims a coalition of ten Muslim groups accused the agency of sending undercover agents into mosques, pressuring Muslims to become informants, labeling civil rights advocates as criminals and spreading misinformation.
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MUSLIM GROUPS WEIGH BREAKING TIES WITH FBI |
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| Chicago Tribune
Relations between Muslim American groups and the FBI have approached a breaking point in the wake of news last week that the bureau has severed formal ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Islamic advocacy group in the U.S. Amid debate over whether such organizations should even work with the FBI, a nationwide coalition of Muslim groups has threatened to break from the bureau because of the agency's treatment of CAIR and allegations last month that the FBI had sent undercover agents into California mosques, pressured Muslim Americans to become informants and used "agents provocateurs to entrap" Muslims. Read more here... | | | |
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