Read an Oct. 19, 2010, Council on Foreign Relations interview with John C. Green of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, who says that although voters are primarily concerned about jobs and the economy, they may also feel growing anxiety about Islam and the cultural and ethnic changes in the country.

Read the text of President Obama’s 2009 speech at Cairo University on the civil rights of Muslims.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder also released a statement to coincide with Obama’s Cairo University speech, stating that the Justice Department is “committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans.”

The American Civil Liberties Union’s has a Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief that tracks legal violations in this area.

Ahilan Arulanantham is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Co-Director of its Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP). He formerly directed immigrant rights and national security cases for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.

Asifa Quraishi-Landes is associate professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an expert on U.S. and Islamic law.

Ebrahim Moosa is a professor of Islamic studies at Duke University. He has written about Muslim law and ethics.

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia directs the Center for Immigrants’ Rights at Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law.

Michael Wishnie, a law professor at Yale Law School, has taught a class titled “Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security After Sept. 11.” His human rights law clinic has been honored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.