5 Muslim-Americans sue Homeland Security

[fabsroman]

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Five Muslim-Americans who were fingerprinted, searched and held up to 6 1/2 hours by U.S. border agents upon their return from a religious conference in Canada are suing the Department of Homeland Security.



The suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn charges the government violated their constitutional rights to practice religion and against unlawful searches.


Plaintiff Karema Atassi, 22, of Williamsville, was among at least three dozen Muslim-American men and women who were stopped at two western New York border crossings in December. They had been attending an annual "Reviving the Islamic Spirit" conference in Toronto.


Atassi said she attended the conference to hear respected scholars and learn more about her religion. At the border, she said, her husband was taken behind closed doors and asked "Do you have reason to harm America?" and other "very offensive questions."


The plaintiffs said they had to surrender credit cards, cell phones and other belongings and were searched, questioned, fingerprinted and photographed without explanation. No one in the group was charged.


A call to the department seeking comment on the suit was not returned.


Earlier this month, Daniel Sutherland, a Homeland Security civil rights official, traveled to Buffalo in response to concerns over the incident. He declined to say why the searches had taken place but said officials had made policy changes to prevent a repeat.


The suit was brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.


"If they want to beef up security I'm all for it. I'm totally against terrorism. I want to be protected, I'm an American, too," plaintiff Galeb Rizek said. "If they're going to do this to everyone I have no problem whatsoever. ... But that night, that time, it was only us."

[TreeDoc]

That's the exact reason why 19 Muslim Terrorists were not questioned and prevented from boarding 3 airliners on that morning of September 11, 2001. The airlines are scared to death of the liberal attorneys and judges who will bring them to their knees in the courts for this BullChit. It's easier to just let them on.

If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, by golly it's likely a duck. We don't need to be watching the 75 year old white grandmas. :rolleyes:

[BILLY D.]

WELL BOO HOO HOO. AIN'T THAT A DAMN SHAME.

ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT BEING IN THE MILITARY WE WERE ENCOURAGED TO LEARN THE HISTORY AND CUSTOMS OF COUNTRIES WE WERE STATIONED IN. ALTHOUGH I WAS STATIONED IN GERMANY MY DUTIES SOMETIMES CALED FOR ME TO VISIT OUR DETATCHMENTS IN BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS AND TURKEY.

WHILE IN TURKEY I WAS IN THE BX, NOW EVERBODY KNOWS WHAT BRANCH OF SERVICE I WAS IN, :eek: I PICKED UP A TRANSLATED COPY OF THE KORAN. I COULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT I READ. FOR ALL YOU INQUIREING MINDS OUT THERE, GET A COPY AND SEE WHAT THEIR PLAYBOOK SAYS. IT WILL SCARE THE HOLY BEJESUS OUT OF YOU.

NOW THE FIRST THING THAT THE POWERS THAT BE TOLD US AFTER 911 WAS THAT MUSLIMS ARE JUST LIKE US. I DON'T KNOW WHO THE US IS THEY ARE REFERING TO , BUT IT SURE AIN'T ME.

FASCISM, NAZI(GERMAN FASCIST) AND COMMUNISM ARE CHILDS PLAY COMPARED TO ISLAM.

NOW IF THOSE RAGHEADS ARE LOOKING FOR SYMPATHY I'LL TELL THEM JUST LIKE MY GRANDPA TOLD ME, "SON, SYMPATHY IS IN THE DICTIONARY RIGHT BETWEEN S&&& AND SYPHILIS". I'D TAKE MY KIDS TO THE MICHAEL JACKSON DAY CARE CENTER BEFORE I'D TRUST THOSE PEOPLE.

MY 2 CENTS WORTH.

[PJgunner]

Billy. BX? Sounds like the Air Farce to me. :D

You do make a point though. Most religions today at least have tolerance for the other religions of the world. That doen't mean that they always did. There have been some serious atrocities in the name of Christianity too. However, Islam is tolerant of no other religion. You are either a Muslim, become one or die. You can be made a slave if you're useful, but die you will.
There was one Muslim cleric here in the U.S. who said their goal is to make the U.S. a Muslim country governed by Islamic Law. Is;am is, at this time, the fastest growing religion in this country, mainly among disenfranchised young blacks.
One of these days, mark my words, we'll be at war with the whole Middle East and they'll have their fifth column right here, just waiting. Yet, out government is sitting on their hands, or wringing them with a "Woe is me. We must not abuse their civil rights." After all, we have freedom of religion, right?
Paul B.

[ghost stalker]

delete if you like but thats the way i feel!