The mayor was denied access to an event at the White House earlier this year.
against U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and other security agencies, seeking to end the federal government’s practice of maintaining a “watch list” of individuals in its effort to combat terrorism.barred from attending the annual Eid-al-Fitr celebration at the White House marking the end of Ramadan
Khairullah said he and other Muslims are treated as “second-class citizens,” stripped of their constitutional right to due process. CAIR has previously filed lawsuits against the FBI seeking to end the watch list, which it discovered in 2019 after it was erroneously made public on a server maintained by the airline CommuteAir. The server contained first and last names and dates of birth of 1.5 million people on the federal “no-fly” list, which CAIR says is 98% Muslim.
Abbas said he’s never represented a client who was on the watch list who was charged with a terror-related offense. The government and private companies use it more as a screening tool, a violation of their constitutional rights.
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