My speech last night at the Zainabia Center in Walled Lake, Michigan was about Ashura, FBI community outreach and the National Defense Authorization Bill recently passed by the Senate. Click here to listen.
http://michigancitizen.com/fbi-community-mapping-and-cointelpro-p10435-76.htm FBI community mapping and COINTELPRO 2.0 Published • Sun, Oct 30, 2011 By Dawud Walid The American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) recent release of FBI documents showing the federal agency’s mapping and profiling of marginalized groups based on race… Continue Reading
http://www.freep.com/article/20110913/NEWS05/110913069/Woman-profiled-strip-searched-9-11-FBI-says-treated-her-well September 13, 2011 BY NIRAJ WARIKOO DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER A woman who is half-Jewish and half-Arab says that she and two Indian Americans were detained Sunday by armed officers on an airplane at Detroit Metro Airport and then… Continue Reading
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2011/7/19/detroit-forum-exposes-fbi-repression Detroit forum exposes FBI repression By Staff | July 19, 2011 Read more articles in FBI Repression Sharmin Sadequee speaks about her imprisoned brother Shifa Sadequee at a Detroit forum on civil liberties and FBI repression. (Fight Back! News/Staff)… Continue Reading
http://dailynews24.org/2011/06/detroit-hearing-on-resistance-to-profiling-preemptive-prosecution-andprisoner-abuse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=detroit-hearing-on-resistance-to-profiling-preemptive-prosecution-andprisoner-abuse Detroit Public Meeting to Resist Profiling, Preemptive Prosecution and Prisoner Abuse Date: Sat,July 16, 3:00-6:00pm Location: The Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center and Bookstore 13535 Livernois Avenue Detroit, MI 48238 A community hearing to confront repression of… Continue Reading
How the Hunt for Bin Laden Made U.S. Muslims and Immigrants Threats Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images by Seth Freed Wessler ShareThis | Print Wednesday, May 4 2011, 10:07 AM EST Ten years after Sept. 11, 2001, the animating target of the war on terror… Continue Reading
As Arabs continue to take to the streets in Bahrain, Libya and Yemen risking their lives for the sake of freedom, American Muslims are cheering them on. From spiritual support through prayers, moral support via tweeting encouraging words to protests… Continue Reading
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110211/NEWS06/102110326/MSU-documentary-details-case-of-Detroit-imam-slain-in-FBI-raid?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|FRONTPAGE MSU documentary details case of Detroit imam slain in FBI raid February 11, 2011 By Matthew Miller The first media reports filed on the October day in 2009 when FBI agents shot and killed Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah were… Continue Reading
http://michigancitizen.com/fight-terrorism-not-constitution-p9393-76.htm Fight terrorism, not Constitution By Dawud Walid, Executive Director CAIR-MI While we all are concerned about the overall security of our nation, we must be attentive to the unprecedented surveillance powers and technology being used by various government… Continue Reading
http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/index.php?mod=article&cat=USA&article=3741 Top secret America: Billions used to spy on Americans By Jessica Barrow Monday, 12.27.2010, 08:50pm A large network of military and intelligence agencies working with large corporations. The government spending billions of dollars undermining citizens’ privacy. A major database… Continue Reading