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In a time of growing persecution of Muslims in the West and trials to put restrictions on their worship rights, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation of violating the civil liberties and rights when it sent an informant to a number of mosques in California to spy on American Muslims. The judge said that allowing consideration of the case of violating the Muslim Liberties and its investigation may reveal the secrets of government, according to Reuters. The Judge Cormac Carney said when stating the reasons for his judgment that he had to put the interests of U.S. national security over the individual liberties. But the judge after a hearing session in the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana allowed going forward in the case against five current and former officers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The prosecutors said in their claim that they violated the law of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance. The lawsuit, which was provided last year to the District Court in Santa Ana that the FBI sent a paid informant named Craig Monteilh to some mosques in Orange County to gather information on hundreds, or perhaps thousands of Muslims.

Many people in the United States do not have such a great view on Islam because they do not have much knowledge about it. Most Americans enjoy living their happy lifestyle; which includes life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. When it comes to the Muslim way of living they must live according to the Islamic Shariah. In Islam, it has been forbidden for the Muslims to drink alcohol

Sami al-Hajj, released from Guantanamo Bay in 2008 after being held there for six years without charge, recently sat down for an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 while traveling to Afghanistan on a work assignment, and then transferred to U.S. custody. While in U.S. custody he claims he was beaten and tortured, being attacked by dogs, hung from the ceiling, waterboarded, and sleep deprived. He now heads Al Jazeera's Human Rights and Public Liberties section, a position specially created for him.