Dawud Walid
More attention is being focused on the number of Muslim-Americans on the "terror watch" list.
Last week, Arab Americans in Metro Detroit voiced displeasure publicly after a government report surfaced saying Dearborn has the second-highest concentration of people designated by the U.S. government as being “known or suspected terrorists.”
On Thursday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan Chapter announced it filed a federal lawsuit based on complaints the government has unjustly put a disproportionate number of Muslim-Americans on the nation’s “terror watch” list, Orlandar rand-Williams of the Detroit News reports.
Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan Chapter, says the lawsuit is not a reaction to a list uncovered last week, the News reported. He said the group is seeking remedies to unjustly putting Muslim-Americans names on a list that don’t belong, The News wrote.
“This is a broader problem regarding the Muslim community,” said Walid during a news conference across the street from the U.S. District courthouse in downtown Detroit.
