The report, released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the United States, revealed that 98 percent of the people on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) watch list are Muslims.
CAIR published a report titled "Twenty Years Too Much, Call to Stop FBI's Watch List" detailing the FBI's terrorism screening database targeting Muslims.
In the report, it was stated that the 2019 version of the FBI watchlist was accidentally seized by a Swiss hacker and uploaded to the online environment, and comprehensive analysis of more than 1.5 million data entries was carried out.
In the report, which stated that only the names "Muhammad" and "Ali" with different pronunciations were mentioned in the FBI database more than 350 thousand times, it was noted that all of the first 50 names that were mentioned most frequently were Muslim names.
In the report, it was emphasized that more than 1.47 million data entries in the watch list database examined, more than 98 percent of the total data, are of interest to Muslims.
FBI SPREAD FEAR IN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY
In the report, drawed attention to the fact that the FBI's secret watch list has brought distress and fear to the Muslim community for 20 years.
"But the next target of the FBI will not be Muslims. With the haze of the war on terror lifted, the FBI's secret list will one day find a new target. The next targets will be our American friends, and this report serves as a warning to them," the reports said.
CAIR called on US President Joe Biden to react to the FBI's watchlist.
People on the FBI's watch list face many challenges, including travel restrictions, immigration issues, FBI tracking, police brutality, permit and license challenges, professional results, and limited access to government buildings.
The name of New Jersey Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah, who was invited to the iftar event held at the White House during Ramadan, was removed from the guest list by the Secret Service. The reason for this is attributed to Khairullah being on the FBI watch list.