In what’s become major news and a source of national outrage, thanks to months of reporting by the Associated Press, the New York Police Department has spent years investigating American Muslims throughout the Northeast. Of particular concern is an “NYPD Secret” document dating from November 2006; titled “Weekly MSA Report,” the document was created by Mahmood Ahmad of the NYPD’s Cyber Intelligence Unit, who as “a daily routine” visited the Web sites, blogs, and forums of Muslim Student Associations at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York University, the Rutgers Newark campus, and, less frequently, similar sites at least a dozen other colleges, including Yale, Columbia, and Syracuse.

Since the report’s release, President John E. Sexton of NYU, Yale’s Richard C. Levin, and Columbia’s Lee C. Bollinger have led a chorus of university leaders concerned about the surveillance. Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar, worried about any government…

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The past year has been a trying one for Muslims in the United States. The steady drone of anti-Islamic sentiment, growing since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, was catalyzed by a series of unfortunate incidents. Imam Zaid Shakir has written essays in response to many of the issues.

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