(Politico) A Muslim Democratic mayor from New Jersey plans to sue the Biden administration seeking to end a federal terrorism watchlist which he has previously said unfairly targets Muslims — including himself this spring at the White House.
More details of the legal challenge by Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah are expected to be unveiled Monday, when lawyers plan to file the suit.
Khairullah, who fled his native Syria for New Jersey in 1980, was abruptly disinvited from entering a White House event earlier this year celebrating the Muslim holiday Eid al-[Fitr] after learning he was not cleared by the Secret Service. Khairullah — New Jersey’s longest-serving Muslim mayor — has said he believes his name is allegedly on a federal terrorist watchlist and that he had no “due process to clear my name.”
