Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration Barring Muslims: Interview with Civil Rights Leader Hatem Abudayyeh
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A Muslim American Leader Speaks out on the Growing Oppression in the 'Craddle of Democracy'
By Hatem Abudayyeh and Edu Montesanti
In September of 2010, American federal agents in Chicago unjustifiably raided the Jefferson Park residence of Hatem Abudayyeh, Executive Director of Arab American Action Network (AAAN), in a time that federal agents were executing search warrants in residences and offices of several people in Chicago and in Minneapolis. Some of many “huntings for Muslims” everywhere since the 9/11 attacks
The FBI agents took away a computer, video tapes and a cell phone of the Muslim civil rights leader. “They took everything in my home that had the word Palestinian on it,” Abudayyeh said. The federal investigation was focused on whether Abudayyeh and the ot...