The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case weighing the government’s alleged surveillance of Muslims.
The case was originally brought by Sheikh Yassir Fazaga, …
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case weighing the government’s alleged surveillance of Muslims. The case was originally brought by Sheikh Yassir Fazaga, an imam at the Orange County Islamic Foundation in California, and two practicing Muslims, Ali Uddin Malik and Yasser AbdelRahim, each of whom was targeted and surveilled by an FBI informant in 2006 and 2007. They alleged the FBI violated their constitutional rights. The informant was to pose as a convert to Islam and the FBI “told him to gather as much information on as many people in the Muslim community as possible,” according to court papers.
