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Rutgers Muslim students fearful for future in wake of NYPD surveillance (COMMENTARY)
By Andy Urban — March 9, 2015
(RNS) Rutgers students had no connections to terrorist activities whatsoever. Their "wrongdoing" amounts to being members of the campus Muslim Student Associations that were infiltrated by undercover NYPD agents.
DC synagogue fires rabbi in ‘Peeping Tom’ case
By Lauren Markoe — December 2, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) The synagogue that Rabbi Barry Freundel led for nearly 25 years has fired him over charges of voyeurism.
Rabbi accused of spying on women took students to his mikvah
By Lauren Markoe — October 22, 2014
(RNS) Officials at a Maryland university are voicing concern at news that Washington's so-called Peeping Tom rabbi invited college students to try out his synagogue's ritual bath.
Muslims welcome shuttering of NYPD spying unit
By Omar Sacirbey — April 16, 2014
(RNS) Muslims in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, where the spying took place, said the program intimidated Muslims from attending mosques, speaking in public and making charitable contributions to Muslim charities.
Civil rights groups appeal ruling allowing NYPD to spy on Muslims
By Omar Sacirbey — March 21, 2014
(RNS) Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed a federal judge’s ruling that affirmed the right of the New York City Police Department to spy on Muslims.
Muslims criticize judge’s dismissal of NYPD spying lawsuit
By Omar Sacirbey — February 21, 2014
(RNS) Muslim Americans and civil rights groups are criticizing a federal court decision that dismissed a lawsuit alleging the New York City Police Department illegally spied on Muslim Americans in New Jersey.
COMMENTARY: Between repression and freedom
By Tom Ehrich — February 11, 2014
(RNS) When bigots attacked Coca Cola after the Super Bowl airing, the company could have backed down. But they did the better thing: repeating the ad and making it 50 percent longer. Good for them.
COMMENTARY: Drunk with power with nobody to stop them
By Tom Ehrich — November 5, 2013
(RNS) Self-centeredness is nothing new, of course. But for a time, ideals of community and shared sacrifice seemed to hold self-centeredness in check. Many of us think our nation is still playing by ethical rules that restrained an essential selfishness. Not so.
Update: U.S. denies spying on Vatican cardinals ahead of conclave
By Eric J. Lyman — October 31, 2013
ROME (RNS) “Assertions that NSA has targeted the Vatican, published in Italy’s Panorama magazine, are not true,” NSA spokeswoman Vanee’ Vines told the Los Angeles Times.
Report says U.S. tapped cardinals’ phones ahead of conclave
By Eric J. Lyman — October 30, 2013
ROME (RNS) The news magazine Panorama said the NSA eavesdropping program also listened in on calls to and from the Vatican, including the phones in the Santa Marta guesthouse that housed Pope Francis and the rest of the College of Cardinals.
Religious, civil rights groups demand investigation of NYPD spying
By Omar Sacirbey — October 25, 2013
(RNS) A coalition of 125 religious, civil rights, and community-based organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Thursday urging a civil rights investigation into a New York City Police Department program that spies on Muslims.
Muslims detail fear from NYPD spy probe
By Omar Sacirbey — March 11, 2013
(RNS) In a new report, Muslims detail how fears of being spied on compelled them to refrain from social activism, and change how they dress, and sowed intracommunity mistrust.
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