In the first direct legal action, eight New Jersey Muslims sued the New York Police Department to end their surveillance of ethnic groups.
Muslim Advocates’ Farhana Khera said that Muslims are under the microscope.
There was reference in the documents to targeting, for example, the Iranian community, the Egyptian community, the Syrian community. But then there was explicit reference to the fact that they weren’t targeting Syrian Jews or Iranian Jews or Egyptian Christians, but really, the focus was on Muslims.
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