Muslim Americans Accuse FBI of Placing Them on "No-Fly" List for Refusing to Become Informants

www.democracynow.org - Naveed Shinwari is one of four American Muslims who filed suit against the government this week for placing them on the U.S. "no-fly list" after they refused to become FBI informants. The plaintiffs say they were barred from flying not because they were accused of any crime, but because they wouldn't spy on their communities. "It's very frustrating, you feel helpless," Shinwari says. "No one will tell you how you can get off of it, how you got on it. It has a profound impact on people's lives." We are also joined by Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has lawsuit to remove the men from the no-fly list, and call for a new legal mechanism to challenge placement on it. "Whenever civil rights abuses are violated or abused, people have to speak out," Shinwari concludes. "If I don't do it, who else will do it?"
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[@HughJass-jv2lt]

*United SNAKES* being _snakey..._
🙄🙄

[@IamSpacedad]

This kind of cruelty and mean-spirited persecution makes me deeply embarrassed for my country. (To put it lightly.) It's bad enough to treat foreigners like shit, but they don't even have the illusion of an excuse abusing the rights of American muslims.

[@ThePixelPopper]

He was coming back from a war zone so i would hope some precaution would take place.

[@Majoofi]

The government may not deprive citizens of “life, liberty, or property” without due process of law

[@Swaggs303]

'what are your feelings about being on the no fly zone list and how has it affected your life?' . duh

[@relliottk83]

This this type of treatment happened to German and Japanese Americans during World War 2 at least they're all not rounded up and put in prison camps like Japanese Americans were

[@omars1982]

The Japanes and Muslims are completely different people.

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

Most muslims can recognize who our media co trollers are. He probably feels very unsafe in that studio.

[@omars1982]

He deserves it