Eighteen year-old Muslim American Adel Daoud was arrested in Chicago on September 14 after a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) undercover sting operation, where he allegedly tried to set off a car bomb outside of a bar. The story reported by local Chicago news and other media outlets credited the FBI with thwarting a plot by an individual intent on killing Americans.

A white supremacist named Wade Michael Page opened fire at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Sunday and killed six worshipers. Three other worshipers and a police officer were wounded. Page was shot dead by police. As the incident unfolded yesterday, CNN provided coverage of it as law enforcement responded and as victims [...]

Salil Sheth, an apartment superintendent for a complex near the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, had no intention of finding the location where the New York Police Department (NYPD) was conducting a covert surveillance operations well outside of its jurisdiction. That is exactly what he found when he was conducting the complex’s [...]

(update below) Ahead of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Chicago, hundreds gathered for a People’s Summit hosted by Occupy Chicago. Various speakers discussed how NATO perpetuates policies of war abroad. A number of speakers also described the war at home that includes austerity measures and a culture of fear that violates the [...]

Activists, lawyers, human rights advocates, civil liberties defenders and others came together for a major international summit on drone warfare and the issues created by drone use yesterday. The summit was co-organized by CODEPINK, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Reprieve. An exceptional lineup of speakers addressed participants detailing salient and significant aspects around the [...]

A 29-year-old Muslim man was sentenced to seventeen and a half years in prison on federal criminal charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and providing or attempting to provide material support to terrorists. The “material support” the man was alleged to have given consisted of watching videos on “jihad,” sharing his views [...]

A book published by Pultizer Prize-winning author Tim Weiner titled Enemies: A History of the FBI and out for a month and a half now continues to attract attention, as it is one of the most definitive accounts of the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ever produced.  The author and his book [...]

Under the guise of “mosque outreach,” the FBI division based in San Francisco, California, collected intelligence on mosques and Muslim religious organizations. The intelligence collected included information on First Amendment-protected activities, such as details on religious beliefs and practices. And the information was not used by just the FBI but was marked as “positive intelligence” [...]

A former FBI informant, who was tasked with secretly infiltrating southern California mosques, admits in many cases civil rights groups are correct in their concern that Muslims are being unfairly targeted. He told The Guardian “the way the FBI conducts their operations it is all about the entrapment.” “I know the game, I know the [...]

The release of “newly obtained documents” that clearly show the New York Police Department engaged in ethnic profiling and explicitly targeted Muslims seems to have become a weekly event. Each week, the Associated Press has some “secret files” that make it even more clear how illicit the acts of the NYPD were in the surveillance [...]