Islam in America

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Spying Program May Be Tested by Terror Case

By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: August 26, 2007
The New York Times
The case of two men convicted of supporting terrorism is central in a push to challenge an eavesdropping program.

"ALBANY, Aug. 22 — After a bloody raid by American military forces on an enemy camp in Rawah, Iraq, on June 11, 2003, a Defense Department report took inventory. Eighty suspected terrorists killed. An enormous weapons cache recovered. And, in what the report called “pocket litter,” a notebook with the name and phone number of the imam of a mosque halfway around the world, here in the state capital."

Complete Article.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Plight of Muslim Immigrants in Post-Sept. 11 America

Plight of Muslim Immigrants in Post-Sept. 11 America
Published: August 1, 2007
The New York Times
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

In their no-frills documentary, “Out of Status,” Pia Sawhney and Sanjna N. Singh examine the actions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service after 9/11 and the devastating repercussions for America’s Muslims.

Read the complete article here.

At War, at Home, at Risk

New York Times Magazine
At War, at Home, at Risk
By AYUB NURI
Published: July 29, 2007
To be an Iraqi “fixer” for Western journalists was to live the life of a target.

Complete article here.