Muslims sometimes get paranoid (often rightly so), thinking they are being observed by security agencies or placed under some sort of lists due to a loose definition of extremism. Actually, there is an easy way to know if you have indeed been profiled by the police.

In 2009, The Guardian published a very simple step-by-step process (reproduced below) allowing you to find out if you are on the main secret database of political activists.

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The United States Supreme Court’s decision on Monday not to hear the final appeal in the case of the Holy Land Foundation, is a wake-up call for everyone concerned with the issue of fair trials in the US for Muslims. The decision has a particular resonance now, in the aftermath of the extradition six weeks ago of five Muslim men from Britain to the US.

Since the beginning of the revolutions in the Arab world the most disconcerting day of the week for rulers has been Friday - yaum al-Jum'ah, the Day of Gathering. 

As I think of the sentence of our sister Aafia Siddiqui and indeed all the other prisoners, so many of them are people who lived their lives for the sake of Allah alone and were amongst the best of us, and thus do the promises of Allah come true.

IHRC is embarking on a pilot project to assess Muslim experiences of hostility and discrimination including hates crimes. 

The only known American soldier in Taliban captivity is training fighters in bombmaking and ambush, according to information reported Sunday from one of his captors and the Afghan intelligence agents working to free him.