(Anadolu) The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the US has expressed shock at the recent disclosure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s secret surveillance and listing of Muslims in the country since the 9/11 attacks.
Gadeir Abbas, a senior lawyer at the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told Anadolu that the FBI monitoring report shows that Muslims have been listed and followed for years, from former President George Bush’s administration to the current Joe Biden government, referring to the 2019 version of the FBI’s watch list made public by a Swiss hacker on June 13.
“We’ve known for many years that Muslims are being watched,” Abbas said, “but seeing this list firsthand is truly shocking.”
