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Home Front: WoT
Discrimination lawsuit filed by Muslims traveling to and from Canada moves forward
2013-06-12
Detroit -- A federal judge has decided to allow to move forward a discrimination case charging Muslims were unfairly detained while traveling to and from Canada.

A hearing was held late last month in front of U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn to address whether the lawsuit brought last year by the Council on American-Islamic Relations would move proceed. The suit was filed on behalf of several Muslims who said they were targeted.

CAIR, which fights discrimination against Muslims, charged U.S. Border Patrol agents were unfairly detaining Muslims -- sometimes for several hours -- and asking intrusive questions about how many times a day they prayed as well as whether they pray in a mosque or who else prays there.
Silly Border Patrol -- just tap their phone records...
Although saying the government may "come forward with a permissable reason for profiling plaintiffs for secondary inspection and questioning them extensively about their religious practices and beliefs," Cohn wrote the CAIR group members "have sufficiently alleged that such policy, practice and custom targets a suspect class and has no rational basis."

"We are pleased that this important case will move forward and those who faced unlawful government questioning about their religious beliefs will continue to have their day in court," said Gadeir Abbas, an attorney with CAIR, who is based in Washington and was present last month to help argue the case.
Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#4  Couldn't the US Border Patrol have detained them for 20 or 30 years or so? Would save us Canuckistanians a lot of time, effort and money.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2013-06-12 20:48  

#3  Templars? Freemasons? Prismati?
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-06-12 10:41  

#2  The religion of the 95 people in prison in March 2012 for terrorist offence was:
Anglican 1
Roman Catholic 2
Buddhist 1
other religious groups 1
no religion 3
Muslim 87

No other comment needed.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-06-12 10:35  

#1  Given the location and the questions, I bet it turns out the Border Patrol Agents were themselves Muslims and were making sure the travelers were Sufficiently Muslim.

Once CAIR realizes this, the lawsuit will go away.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2013-06-12 09:18  

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