Civil Rights
Judge Questions Terror Convictions After High Court Ruling
A federal judge is weighing whether to toss out some counts of conviction in four terrorism cases after a Supreme Court ruling struck down a similarly worded law this week.
The Afterlives of Torture
Donald J. Trump ran for president on a platform that included a pledge to bring back the torture technique of waterboarding and “a hell of a lot more.” On the campaign trail, Trump told his supporters: “We have to fight so viciously and violently because we’re dealing with violent people…We have to fight fire with fire…or we are not going to have much of a country left.” [1]
Record Breaking National Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported today that some 400 delegates from 28 states met on Monday and Tuesday with more than 250 elected officials and congressional staffers during the record-breaking fourth annual "National Muslim Advocacy Day" on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Shocking Revelations in Noor Salman Trial
FBI withheld evidence, Pulse shooter’s father was an FBI informant
Muslim Leaders Arrested In DC Standing With Dreamers
Muslim community and faith leaders were arrested in Washington DC on March 5, 2018 after calling on lawmakers to support bipartisan immigration legislation that makes permanent protections available to Dreamers protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.