COS 50 Research Questions: Religious Profiling
Alizamaan Datoo
Prof. Sara Campbell
COS 50
Research Questions: Religious Profiling
1. Is Racial profiling an effective counterterrorist measure and does it violate the Right to be free from discrimination?
Alizamaan Datoo
Prof Sara Campbell
COS 50
Patel, Faiza, and Elizabeth Goitein. "Religious Profiling: An Unwelcome Guest." The Hill. N.p., 12 Apr. 2012. Web. .
The article starts off by stating the laws against profiling. In 2003, the Department of Justice issued guidance prohibiting racial and ethnic profiling by federal law enforcement agencies, which it characterized as “invidious discrimination” rejecting our commitment to liberty and justice for all. Like racial …show more content…
"DISCRIMINATION: RIGHTS GROUPS SUE U.S. OVER 'RELIGIOUS PROFILING'." Global Information Network Apr 21 2005: 1. ProQuest. 26 Mar. 2014
In simultaneous news conferences held in New York City and Buffalo, on the Canadian border, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union announced that they were suing the head of the Department of Homeland Security over the practice of targeting U.S. citizens participating in religious conferences outside the United States.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. district court on behalf of five Muslim-Americans who, along with dozens of others, were detained for six and a half hours, interrogated, fingerprinted, and photographed at the Canadian border crossing to Buffalo as they returned home from an annual Islamic conference in Toronto.
Among the conference's keynote speakers was Hamza Yusuf, a U.S. citizen and prominent imam from Hayward, California, who has advised President George W. Bush on several occasions on matters regarding Islam. Yusuf sat near First Lady Laura Bush during the president's Sep. 20, 2001 address to a joint session of …show more content…
These officers "put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity," the news agency reported, citing NYPD documents.
"In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques," the Associated Press reported, "the New York Police Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation." They acknowledged, in court testimony, having generated zero leads.
Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs. He lives in Venice, California, and is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter that is devoted for non
Prof. Sara Campbell
COS 50
Research Questions: Religious Profiling
1. Is Racial profiling an effective counterterrorist measure and does it violate the Right to be free from discrimination?
Alizamaan Datoo
Prof Sara Campbell
COS 50
Patel, Faiza, and Elizabeth Goitein. "Religious Profiling: An Unwelcome Guest." The Hill. N.p., 12 Apr. 2012. Web. .
The article starts off by stating the laws against profiling. In 2003, the Department of Justice issued guidance prohibiting racial and ethnic profiling by federal law enforcement agencies, which it characterized as “invidious discrimination” rejecting our commitment to liberty and justice for all. Like racial …show more content…
"DISCRIMINATION: RIGHTS GROUPS SUE U.S. OVER 'RELIGIOUS PROFILING'." Global Information Network Apr 21 2005: 1. ProQuest. 26 Mar. 2014
In simultaneous news conferences held in New York City and Buffalo, on the Canadian border, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union announced that they were suing the head of the Department of Homeland Security over the practice of targeting U.S. citizens participating in religious conferences outside the United States.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. district court on behalf of five Muslim-Americans who, along with dozens of others, were detained for six and a half hours, interrogated, fingerprinted, and photographed at the Canadian border crossing to Buffalo as they returned home from an annual Islamic conference in Toronto.
Among the conference's keynote speakers was Hamza Yusuf, a U.S. citizen and prominent imam from Hayward, California, who has advised President George W. Bush on several occasions on matters regarding Islam. Yusuf sat near First Lady Laura Bush during the president's Sep. 20, 2001 address to a joint session of …show more content…
These officers "put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity," the news agency reported, citing NYPD documents.
"In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques," the Associated Press reported, "the New York Police Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation." They acknowledged, in court testimony, having generated zero leads.
Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs. He lives in Venice, California, and is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter that is devoted for non