Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:44:14 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: US Muslims Blast FBI Raid
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by aztec.asu.edu id KAA16383

Source: iViews.com
URL: http://www.iviews.com
Type: Web Pointer; Web Sample
Date: 7 Sept 2001
Title: US Muslims Blast FBI Raid

TEXT:

US Muslims Blast FBI Raid
Copyright: http://www.iviews.com
Published Friday September 07, 2001

By iviews.com staff report

US Muslim leaders Thursday condemned a federal search at the Texas
offices of a Middle East Internet service provider, calling it
part of an "anti-Muslim witch hunt."

Anti-terrorism agents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigations
were part of the joint operation Wednesday that descended on the
offices of InfoCom Corporation, a Texas-based Internet service
provider that hosts a web portal servicing the Middle East and
many Muslim American organizations.

"While Muslims understand the FBI's mission to protect American
citizens, we are concerned that the civil liberties of Infocom's
owners and their many important clients were violated by this
unexpected raid.  Such an assault leaves the Muslim community and
the public at large with many unanswered questions and a lingering
sense of violation. We expect the FBI to provide a prompt and full
disclosure of the circumstances that led to this raid, the basis
of their suspicions and the evidence for which they were
searching," a coalition of nearly a dozen Muslim groups said in a
statement.

The search disrupted satellite television service in the United
Arab Emirates, according to reports from Dubai, and several web
sites for major Muslim American organizations were shut down.

"American Muslims view yesterday's action as just one of a long
list of attempts by the pro-Israel lobby to intimidate and silence
all those who wish to see Palestinian Muslims and Christians free
themselves of a brutal apartheid-like occupation," said the
coalition of Muslims.

[...]

AFP contributed to this report.

    Copyright © 1999-2001 by iviews.com. All Rights Reserved
        Powered by IslamiCity

Please read the full-text of this iViews.com feature at URL:
http://www.iviews.com/scripts/articles/stories/default.cfm?id=12849&ca 
tegory_id=40



Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues
Send a blank message to: freematt@coil.com with the words subscribe FA
on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week)
Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722  ICQ: 106212065   Archived at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/