![]() ![]() “Two decades after 9/11, we continue to see the harm of the watch lists. Selaedin Maksut, the CAIR chapter’s executive director, said there is no transparency in how or why people are added to or removed from the list, and there is no remedy people can seek to have their names removed. an incident like this makes me question the progress I thought we had made.” I have a platform to address this issue, but about 1.5 million others don’t. ![]() “I’m not upset about not being at the White House,” said Khairullah, who was elected to a fifth term as his town’s mayor in January. Khairullah said Tuesday that he has no idea why his information is on the list and that no one in the federal government will tell him, adding that there’s “no reason to believe I’m an unsafe person.” Khairullah noted that he has been detained a few times and questioned while traveling, experiences that he called “humiliating.” Shortly before he was set to arrive at the White House for the Eid-al-Fitr celebration on Monday, Khairullah said he received a call from the White House stating that he had not been cleared for entry by the Secret Service and could not attend the celebration where Biden delivered remarks to hundreds of guests. The group informed Khairullah that a person with his name and birthdate was in a dataset that CAIR attorneys obtained in 2019. Secret Service and other federal agencies to stop using and distributing the list, which the group says has more than 1.5 million names, a majority of which are “Arab or Muslim sounding.”ĬAIR has called on the Biden administration to cease the FBI’s dissemination of information from what is known as a Terrorist Screening Data Set that includes hundreds of thousands of individuals. (AP) – A New Jersey mayor who was blocked from attending a White House celebration this week with President Joe Biden to belatedly mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan called Tuesday for the administration to end the federal “watch list” that he said illegally targets Muslims and others.ĭuring a news conference held Tuesday in South Plainfield by the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ), Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah and several other speakers condemned the list as illegal, discriminatory and unconstitutional. ![]()
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