July 10, 2014 WASHINGTON — A new report based on documents provided by Edward J. Snowden has identified five American Muslims, including the leader of a civil rights group, as having been subjected to surveillance by the federal government. The disclosure of what were described as specific domestic surveillance targets by The Intercept online magazine…
By Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain July 9, 2014 The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans—including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, and lawyers—under secretive procedures intended to target terrorists and foreign spies. According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the list of Americans…
July 13, 2014 Philip Montgomery calls his photographs of New York City’s various Islamic communities an unfinished project, one driven by changing perspectives and questions. He began in 2009 as a new arrival from California and fresh from photographing Sufi Muslims in Kashmir. In an unfamiliar city, Mr. Montgomery, now 26, said he felt a…
Relative rank order of religious groups stable throughout his presidency July 11, 2014 by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ — Seventy-two percent of U.S. Muslims approved of the job President Barack Obama was doing as president during the first six months of 2014, higher than any other U.S. religious group Gallup tracks. Mormons were least…
July 11, 2014 Misinformed voters — not to mention conspiracy theorists — have long believed that President Obama is a Muslim rather than a Christian. That number has reached as high as nearly one-fifth of all Americans and 30 percent of conservatives. He’s not. But he is hugely popular among the U.S. Muslim community. A…
