Investigations against FBI for Violating Muslim Liberties - 0 views
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Muslim Academy on 23 Aug 12In 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.