“ 'So instead of going after the group on a terrorism charge, they use some kind of lesser or technical charge, in this case a tax charge. And I think that is illegitimate,' said Mr. Lobel, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh. 'On the basis of their fears of terrorism, they’re just trying to find whatever law violation they can, and that strikes me as discriminatory law enforcement.' ”
Judge Dennis Saylor’s latest ruling to quash the January jury conviction vindicates what the civil right activists and groups have been saying that the American Muslim charities are being targeted to intimidate the seven-million strong American Muslim community that remains besieged more than six years after 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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