USA: MUSLIM PRISON IMAM SUES OVER LOSS OF SECURITY CLEARANCE

Is it just me, or are you getting freakin' sick of this? This Muslim knows why he lost clearance. He knows the government can't release such classified information. So he sues to force discovery. Another Great American ............

Muslim sues over loss of security clearance Post Gazette hat tip wolf

Charging violation of his constitutional rights to free speech and religion, equal protection and due process, nuclear scientist and prison imam Moniem El-Ganayni filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against the Department of Energy and its acting deputy secretary, Jeffrey F. Kupfer.

The action stems from the loss of Dr. El-Ganayni's security clearance, and hence his job, at Bettis Laboratory in West Mifflin, based on unspecified grounds of "national security." It does not seek to overturn the revocation, but rather the right to see the alleged evidence against him -- he doubts any exists -- and the chance to contest the decision "before a nonpolitical, neutral arbiter, as mandated by DOE regulations."

"The government has offered no factual details in this case. All they've done is to parrot boilerplate language from the DOE," said Witold Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, which is representing Dr. El-Ganayni along with lawyers from the Downtown offices of Schnader Harrison Segal and Lewis.

"There are ways to handle classified information without compromising national security," he said. "The government has done it before."

The suit says Dr. El-Ganayni was damaged by the government's actions and, in addition to a hearing, seeks affirmation of his rights as a U.S. citizen, plus costs and attorneys' fees.

National security, the suit alleges, was invoked "solely to shield the agency from having to disclose the unconstitutional retaliatory and discriminatory reasons" for its action. In reality, it says, the decision was made "because he is a foreign-born Muslim who has spoken publicly and critically about U.S. foreign policy and the FBI's treatment of Muslims."

Altogether now. Hurl.

"Many [native-born] Americans say what I say about the war," Dr. El-Ganayni said yesterday. "But when I say it, I become a traitor. I want to show that the laws apply to me the same as to any other citizen."

The 29-page complaint sets out a scenario of post-9/11 suspicion and harassment against local Muslims, and Dr. El-Ganayni's opposition to it. It says he was visited by government agents at his home, asked to inform on other Muslims (he refused) and denied boarding passes on routine airline flights when his American-born wife went right through.

Dr. El-Ganayni came to the United States from Egypt in 1980, became a U.S. citizen in 1988 and started work at the Bettis nuclear propulsion research facility in 1990. He earned his advanced degrees at the University of Pittsburgh, co-founded the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, and ministered to prisoners in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

He contends that he never had a clearance problem at work until he began speaking out against the Iraq war and the FBI's efforts to recruit informants at local mosques.

Comments

[culturist]

This man professes to worry about his right as a generic American. Individual rights means never having to worry about the impact on our nation or culture. The Imam has mixed this with multiculturalism to create a deadly combination for our culture. The combination of these two has undermined our ability to talk straight or to act in our collective interest to protect ourselves.

We must be able to say, "Yes, we are suspicious of you because you are from a culture which preaches hatred towards our nation." We have to be able to say, since we suspect you're preaching hate we need to you value the survival of America more than your individual proclivities. Putting America and its security first, after all, is what defines a real American. We have a culture and nation and they deserves respect and consideration.

This article sickens me. Multiculturalism and the failure to be honest about culture will be the death of us. They know it; we don't. We need some Western culturist consciousness.

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[heroyalwhyness]

The discovery process can work against him . . .this could get verrrrry interesting.