Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah has said he believes his name is allegedly on a federal terrorist watchlist .
Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah was disinvited from entering a White House event this spring celebrating the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitar after learning he was not cleared by the Secret Service. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesA Muslim Democratic mayor from New Jersey plans to sue the Biden administration seeking to end a federal terrorism watchlist which he has previously said unfairly targets Muslims — including himself this spring at the White House.
More details of the legal challenge by Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah are expected to be unveiled Monday, when lawyers plan to file the suit.abruptly disinvited from entering a White House event earlier this year celebrating the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitar after learning he was not cleared by the Secret Service. Khairullah — New Jersey’s longest-serving Muslim mayor — has said he believes his name is allegedly on a federal terrorist watchlist and that he had no “due process to clear my name.”
The White House deferred comment to the Secret Service. The agency at the time said the mayor was denied entry to the event — where President Joe Biden was in attendance — but it has declined further comment, citing security practices. The lawsuit was announced by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, and is expected to include a dozen plaintiffs, including from Massachusetts, Michigan and Washington, D.C. CAIR filed a similar lawsuit in the past challenging the federal terrorism watch list, also referred to as the Terrorism Screening Dataset. A
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