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Posted by admin | Jun 2nd, 2005
THE STATE OF CIVIL LIBERTIES IN TODAY’S AMERICA
In November of last year a Muslim doctor was pulled over by police officers and searched; his car was seized.
The officers accused him of planning to purchase drugs. They arrested him without a warrant, and without reading his rights. During his detainment, the man requested that he be allowed to pray, but the officers would not release the handcuffs on his hands. Instead, they told him to pray as he was; they...
Christina Abraham is the Civil Rights Director at CAIR-Chicago. Christina has spoken and written on issues related to Arab and Muslim civil rights, and actively works to pursue successful resolutions to incidents of discrimination through legal and non-legal channels. Christina is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights and a member of the Advisory Board of the BRussels International Tribunal. Christina holds a Masters in the Arts of Social Sciences (M.A.) at the University of Chicago where her focus was on Politics in the Middle East, and a Juris Doctorate at DePaul University where she received membership in the Order of the Barristers. She is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois.