{"id":3770,"date":"2014-08-25T07:39:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2014-08-25T07:39:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:39:02","slug":"profiling-targets-us-muslims-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/08\/25\/3770\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiling Targets US Muslims Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/profiling-Targets-US-Muslims-Too.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>A leading American Muslim civil rights activist has complained that US Muslims were enduring similar racial profiling to African-American in Ferguson suburb in Missouri state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cProfiling in post-9\/11 America of Arab-Americans and South-Asian Americans cannot be dealt with in a silo separate from the profiling and misconduct that is done towards African-Americans by law enforcement officers,\u201d Dawud Walid, a director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told RIA Novosti.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anger across the American society raged after the fatal shooting of Brown two weeks ago in Missouri by police.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to media reports, St. Louis County police claimed the unarmed Brown had struggled for an officer\u2019s gun in a patrol car before he was killed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Witnesses said Brown, who is African-American, had his hands up when he was shot. Brown\u2019s death triggered angry demonstrations and calls by several civil rights organizations for the US Justice Department to investigate the shooting.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday ordered the Missouri National Guard to begin withdrawing from Ferguson, where nightly scenes of unrest have erupted since a white police officer fatally shot Brown.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CAIR has also said that prosecutor should replace St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, who allegedly has personal and professional ties to the Ferguson police department.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIt\u2019s important for Arab Americans and South Asian Americans to show solidarity with black Americans about the racial profiling that we all experience at the hands of law enforcement officers \u2013 irrespective of them being Christian or Muslim,\u201d Walid added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is not the first time CAIR official expressed concerns over the rising racial profiling in the US.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last week, 100 groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), issued a statement urging the American authorities to address \u2018racial profiling\u2019 by law enforcement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The group urged the Congress to pass the \u2018End Racial Profiling Act\u2019, which would prohibit law enforcement agencies from using profiling based on race, ethnicity, national origin or religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <strong><em>OnIslam<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading American Muslim civil rights activist has complained that US Muslims were enduring similar racial profiling to African-American in Ferguson suburb in Missouri state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c102-muslim-minorities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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