Publications

Comment: In this article, Omar T. Mohammedi – speaker at this year’s American-Arab anti-discrimination convention and lawyer for ‘the Six Imams’ case – discusses racial profiling by airlines in the US. The mounting number of civil rights violations against Muslims, Arabs, South Asians and anyone who is perceived to be of Middle Eastern heritage, is…

Comment: In this article, Omar Mohammedi – President of the Association of Muslim American lawyers – unpicks the challenges to Trump’s travel ban, and demonstrates its legal as well as moral flaws. As early as 7 December 2015, in the midst of the Republican primaries, Donald Trump proposed a systemic policy of religious discrimination against…

According to media reports and direct accounts from family members, Khalid Jabara was shot in front of his home by neighbor Stanley Vernon Majors. Mr. Majors was continuously brought to law enforcement’s attention for harassing and threatening the Jabara family for years. On the afternoon of August 12th, Mr. Jabara was frightened after he learned…

According to media reports, Imam Alauddin Akonjee, a religious leader at the Al-Furqan Jame mosque in Ozone Park, and his assistant, Thara Miah, were shot while walking together outside of the mosque shortly after completing prayers. According to witnesses and video footage, a man approached the two men from behind and shot each one in…