The Courtroom Jihad opens a new front. If this request is granted, what will be the result? Any mujahid who discovers he is being investigated can flee the country or curtail his actions until the heat is off.
A Which-Side-Are-You-On Alert from AP, with thanks to Twostellas:
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union are asking the FBI to reveal any surveillance of Muslims in Southern California since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Using the Freedom of Information Act, the ACLU filed the request for documents Monday on behalf of six Islamic organizations and several individual Muslims.
Islamic leaders said the FBI gave them little information when they alleged that investigators had been monitoring local Muslims and mosques.
Shakeel Syed, head of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, said many area Muslims have reported being questioned by the FBI about sermons delivered in local mosques.
The government has 20 days to respond to the ACLU’s request under the Freedom of Information Act. In an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times, FBI officials said they would address the request but did not say if they would turn over documents.
“The FBI does not investigate anyone based on their lawful activities, religious or political beliefs,” said J. Stephen Tidwell, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office….