The Council on American-Islamic Relations, known as CAIR, continues to be the best-known and most aggressive organization for addressing grievances by Muslims, but it has become a target of government scrutiny because of allegations linking it to the Palestinian Hamas movement. The FBI curtailed contact with CAIR, as Fox News reported in this January 30, […]

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

The American Civil Liberties Union’s resources include a “Watch List Counter” that tracks names on the U.S. government’s terrorist list.

Edward Alden, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times. His latest book, The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 9/11, examines U.S. visa and border policies in the wake of 9/11.

David Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University, is an expert on First Amendment and civil rights issues and co-author of Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror.

Louise Cainkar, an assistant professor in the department of social and cultural sciences at Marquette University in Milwaukee, has written widely about the effects of Sept. 11 on American Muslims. Her book Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11 is to be published in August 2009.

Mehdi Bozorgmehr is a research the City University of New York. He co-wrote a book titled Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond, which looks at how ethnic organizations mobilized to demonstrate their commitment to the United States while defending their rights and distancing themselves from the terrorists.

Anny Bakalian is a researcher at the City University of New York. She co-wrote a book titled Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond, which looks at how ethnic organizations mobilized to demonstrate their commitment to the United States while defending their rights and distancing themselves from the terrorists.

Read a June 24, 2010, story published in the Los Angeles Times about the change of leadership in Afghanistan from Gen. Stanly McChrystal to Gen. David Patraeus.