Even Muslim civil rights organizations are surveilled, leaving Muslims without recourse

Evidence

The Snowden leak also revealed that Nihad Awad, the executive director for CAIR, was under intense surveillance by the U.S. government. If the civil rights organizations that are supposed to provide Muslims with civil liberties protections are being surveilled, it is no wonder that Muslim American men feel they are unable to speak out about the injustices they experience. … In many ways, it feels as if Muslims have nowhere to go. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 347

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s COINTELPRO reference — surveillance of community organizations, not just individuals. — connects to: Rights-based judicialization leaves the most marginalized groups without meaningful redress. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 374