Thursday, December 31, 2009

TIMES OF INDIA & JANG PAKISTAN AUGUR A NEW 'LOVE PAKISTAN' / 'LOVE INDIA' INITIATIVE WELCOMING NEW YEAR 2010


THE TIMES OF INDIA STARTED THE NEW YEAR 2010 WITH A FULL FRONT PAGE 'ADVERTISEMENT' ANNOUNCING AN IND0-PAK MEDIA INITIATIVE: 'LOVE PAKISTAN', TOGETHER WITH JANG GROUP OF PAKISTAN. AFTER 62 YEARS OF HATE-MONGERING AGAINST EACH OTHER, MEDIA, IS CHOSEN TO LEAD A PEOPLE TO PEOPLE EXERCISE TO CUT DOWN ON INSTITUTIONALIZED HATE THAT DIVIDES THE CONTINENT AND TO USHER IN A NEW ERA OF FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATION AT THE LEVEL OF THE COMMON PEOPLE WHO NEVER BENEFITED FROM THE LONG NIGHT OF HATE AND DIVISION THAT HAD BEEN UNLEASHED BY THE DEPARTING COLONIALISTS. 

THE PRESENT INITIATIVE, THOUGH LONG OVERDUE, BUT STILL APPEARES TO BE MANAGED BY THE SAME COLONIZING POWERS THAT KNOW THAT THEY  AND ONLY THEY CAN IMPOSE THEIR WILL ON US HAPLESS PEOPLE. 

IF THEY WANT US TO HATE EACH OTHER, WE WILL HATE LIKE ZOMBIES. IF THEY WANT US TO LOVE EACH OTHER, THEY WILL HELP RELEASE A FULL PAGE ADVERTISEMENT IN BOTH COUNTRIES' PRIME NEWSPAPERS TO CALL IT A DAY. 

IT IS FOR US TO REFLECT AND QUESTION IF THESE PEACE MOVES HAVE BEEN AUGURED TO COINCIDE WITH ANY FOREIGN POWER AGENDA TO RE-ENTER THE SUBCONTINENT WITH RENEWED VIGOUR AND ONCE AGAIN HIJACK IT TO ABUSE ITS PEOPLE, ITS TERRITORY, ITS RESOURCES BY DIVIDING THE PEOPLE INTO HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS AND IMPOSE THEIR HEGEMONICAL WILL ON THE UNTHINKING MASSES AND UNCARING CLASSES OF THE SUBCONTINENT.

LET PEOPLE OF THE SUBCONTINENT UNITE, BUT ON THEIR OWN TERMS, ON THEIR OWN VOLITION, ON THEIR OWN REALIZATION OF THE DIRE NEED FOR UNITY IN A FREE, INDEPENDENT SUB-CONTINENT; --------- KEEPING THE OUTSIDERS OUT.

GHULAM MUHAMMED, MUMBAI

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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Beware of Brahminical Cartelization ofIndia’s democracy and politics By Ghulam Muhammed


Wednesday, December 30, 2009

A LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Beware of Brahminical Cartelization ofIndia’s democracy and politics

The hectic moves by the newly ‘appointed’ BJP President, Nitin Gadkari, to organize an All Party meet to introduce ‘reforms’ in India’s election rules and regulations, is a blatant attempt to bypass the people and mould the whole process of electoral reforms to suit the Brahminical political groupings now ruling the country through hijacking of Indian democracy. People should challenge the move this ‘All Party’ powwow may impose on India, without bringing in real reforms to reflect the deeper aspirations of grass root Indian voter to infuse their true will and power into the electoral processes. A general debate must proceed any attempt to consolidate the electoral system to ensure high caste concentration at the highest level of Indian administration, to the detriment of the majority of people, who are systematically used and abused to perpetrate this permanent Brahminical hijacking of Indian democracy and its electoral processes to turn India as a cash cow for the ruling politicians. The reluctance of Congress to form the government in Jharkhand by tacitly vacating the space for BJP, is a clear sign that both the Brahminical parties are hand in glove to perpetuate their corruption regime and help each other by turn to milk the poor citizens of the country. Their movers and shakers are all hand in glove and their open fight for space is merely a fraud on the people. Unless Brahmins are out of equation and other caste and minority groups are not brought in to reflect the true democratic will of the people, the country will be resting on a very fragile foundation. That will not be good for the integrity, security and sovereignty of Indian republic. India must face to the grave challenges ahead with its house in order and in disorder.


Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai

Monday, December 28, 2009

A VERY SAD DAY FOR ‘SECULAR’ INDIA By Ghulam Muhammed


Tuesday, December 29, 2009

A VERY SAD DAY FOR ‘SECULAR’ INDIA

Today’s issue of The Indian Express on its front page carries a story that exposes the depth of ingrained communal feelings against Muslims in India. It narrates how in Modi’s Gujarat, Muslims are changing their Muslim names to Hindu names, just to get jobs, which would have been denied to them, if their Muslim identity is known.

I will blame Congress, Nehru, Indira, Rajiv and now Sonia for this state of affair.

It is they who had indulged in double game and systematically reduced 150- 200 million Indian Muslims to such a level of desperation that their very survival as Muslims at grass root level has been so thoroughly become impossible. The other day, Indian Express had carried an interview with World Human Right Watch. A Pew report mentioned in The Times of India earlier gave India the dubious distinction of being wrecked by communal strife of the same intensity that has wrecked Iraq.

It is time, world at large takes note of how oppressed Muslims are in the so-called ‘secular’ and democratic India. If Muslims are forced to change their religion by undergoing such hardships for their very survival, this is cause for serious alarm.
Muslims should thank The Indian Express and Times of India, for swimming against the tide and forcing themselves against odds to bring such unpalatable ghastly truth into the public arena.

Congress must pass very stringent hate crime laws to punish those who have enjoyed absolute freedom and unaccountability to carry out their nefarious hate campaigns. If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is so reputedly enomoured of his US connections, let him be bold and courageous enough to press for the same criminal laws that USupholds to fight religious hatred and criminal acts within their communities.

Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai

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To get job in Surat, Muslim took Hindu name; revealed when he was killed


Kamaal SaiyedTags : peoplemuslimshinduPosted: Tuesday , Dec 29, 2009 at 0144 hrsSurat:
All Mehboob Pathan (50) of Valak village on Surat’s outskirts wanted was a job in the city. Having a Muslim name, he felt, came in the way. So, to get himself a job in Surat’s diamond units, he passed himself off as Jayenti Bhatti, and managed to find work in two separate units in the Kapodara area.


Early this week, his “cover” was blown, after he was brutally killed over a monetary dispute. As the distraught family stepped forward to admit that Jayenti Bhatti was indeed Mehboob Pathan, they worried that having been cremated as a Hindu, the practising Muslim’s soul may not find peace.


In the ledgers of Surat’s diamond units, there are many leading a double life like Pathan. His son Mushtaq is registered as Mukesh and daughter Samina as Sharmila, and both are afraid of losing their jobs if the fact was known.


Diamond industry sources and workers say many Muslims assume Hindu names to find work in the city’s lucrative diamond business.
One of them, Allarakha Khan, admits to having passed himself off as a Hindu like many others from his village. “We would not get a job if we are known to be Muslims. We have been doing this for a long time, and we take great care not to reveal our real names or addresses at work,” he told The Indian Express.



Rohit Mehta, president of the Surat Diamond Association, however, denied knowledge of Muslims passing themselves off as Hindus for jobs. “We will inquire into this,” he said.

Pathan’s story came to be known after his body was found in a farm at Antroli last Monday, with the head smashed in. The police registered a case and kept the unclaimed body in the Palsana Primary Health Centre mortuary till Thursday. Then they arranged to give Pathan alias Bhatti a Hindu funeral, with all the rites.


His family, who had been looking for Pathan, had filed a missing complaint. Then, seeing news stories in local newspapers about an unclaimed body, Mehboob’s brother-in-law Iqbal Pathan decided to check. By that time, Pathan had been cremated, but the brother-in-law identified him from a photo of the body.


The family says Pathan was a pious Muslim and the change of name was just so that he and his children could find and keep a job. “We are too poor to do anything, but how could the police dispose of his body the Hindu way?” asks son Mushtaq. “A genital examination would have shown he was a Muslim.” Sub-Inspector of Kadodara police V R Malhotra said they had kept the body in mortuary hoping someone would turn up. “We disposed it of according to Hindu rites not knowing he was a Muslim. The family turned up too late and we are now helpless.”

Friday, December 25, 2009

Minaret-Less Mosque – Ban OR the Beginning of a Renaissance By Syed B. Soharwardy


Minaret-Less Mosque – Ban OR the Beginning of a Renaissance
By
Syed B. Soharwardy
 
When I received the news that in Switzerland 57.5 percent of voters and 22 cantons (provinces) out of 26 cantons have voted to ban building of minarets on mosques, I was at a mosque in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  I am the Lead Imam at the Al Madinah Calgary Islamic Centre. It is also called Al Madinah Masjid (Mosque).  I had just finished the prayer and a member of our congregation gave me the Swiss news.  I smiled and asked the brother to come outside.  When we came out of the mosque, I took him around the mosque and asked, do you see any minarets on this mosque?  He said, “no”. I said, “this place does not even look like a mosque from outside”.  He smiled. He knew what this minaret-less mosque has achieved within five years of its existence that many mosques with minarets could not achieve.
 
Al Madinah Calgary Islamic Centre was established in 2005. It is located in a shopping mall. We purchased two shops and converted them into a mosque. If the sign outside the mosque is removed, no one would even know that this is a place of worship for Muslims.  In less than five years our congregation grew from 27 people to almost 2000 people.  We have more than 200 girls and boys learning Qur’an and Islamic teachings.  In less than five years 23 non-Muslim Calgarians embraced Islam at the Al Madinah Islamic Centre. Every year hundreds of Calgarians; Christians, Jews, Atheists, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and others visit the Al Madinah Centre and take part in the Interfaith Dialogues. 99% of those who attend the interfaith activities at the Al Madinah Centre change their attitude about Islam and Muslims.  Their misconceptions and misunderstandings about Islam are removed. They appreciate that someone has helped them in removing those fears and distrust of Muslims that the media tries to build everyday. In Ramadan, every year for one month, more than 200 Muslims and non-Muslims eat together at the sunset time at the Al Madinah Mosque. 
 
The Interfaith activities at the Al Madinah Calgary Islamic Centre motivated me to walk across Canada, from Halifax to Victoria (6500 KM) as the lead walker of Multifaith Walk Against Violence.  During this seven month long walk I met hundreds of non-Muslim Canadians and changed their opinions against Muslims and Islam.  Did we need a mosque with minarets for this work?   I don’t think so. We did it with a minaret-less mosque and Insha Allah (God willing) we will continue on the path of building bridges between Muslims and non-Muslims. 
 
Insha Allah (God willing), in future, we have plans to establish a Food Bank, Women’s Shelter, Temporary Residences for New Immigrants and a School in Calgary.  We have already purchased 5 acres of land for these projects.
 
The issue of banning the minarets in Switzerland is not religious. It is a political issue.  It should be handled politically. In politics, public opinions do count.  It was the public opinion of 57.5% of Swiss voters that brought this ban.  Public opinions do change and I am sure it will change.  I am very thankful that neither the Swiss Muslims nor the worldwide Muslims reacted to this ban the way we reacted to the Danish Cartoons. Instead of taking the path of violence, which is against Islam we must choose the path of education, which is the way of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
 
The most important thing for Swiss Muslims is that the 42.5% Swiss voters were against this ban.  They need to work on the 15% or less voters and help them to see the minaret issue the way 42.5% Swiss voters saw it.  The Swiss Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but the rightist Swiss People’s Party, or S.V.P., and a small religious party created Islamophobia in Switzerland. This can be changed provided that the Swiss Muslims remain loyal to Islam and Switzerland.  The loyalty and sincerity with the country will change the hearts of those Swiss people who were supporting the ban yesterday.
 
Of 150 mosques or prayer rooms in Switzerland, only 4 have minarets, and only 2 more minarets were planned. There are about 400,000 Muslims in a population of some 7.5 million people. Switzerland's Muslim population is among the most moderate, and least foreign, in Europe.   Of the country's 400,000 Muslims, representing less than 5 per cent of the population, the largest group are of European background, with ancestors from the historically Muslim Balkan countries of southeast Europe – in other words, they are as culturally and historically European as any Christian Swiss citizen.
 
The issue of minarets started in 2005 when the Turkish cultural association applied for a construction permit to erect a 6-metre-high minaret on the roof of its Islamic community centre in a small municipality which was opposed by the local community. After appeals and court cases the 6m minaret was constructed in July 2009. This has snowballed in to a controversy and became a political issue with the right-wing parties projecting the minarets as symbols of Islamic militancy.
 
One of the Swiss parliamentarians said,
 
“We don’t have anything against Muslims, But we don’t want minarets. The minaret is a symbol of a political and aggressive Islam; it’s a symbol of Islamic law. The minute you have minarets in Europe it means Islam will have taken over.”
 
This Swiss Parliamentarian saw life in minarets. For me minarets are just concrete and steel. The honour of a mosque is not in its minarets but it is in the hearts and minds of the people who pray inside the mosques.  We do not need to build high towers on our mosques. We need to build our current and future generations to be the true representatives of Islam.
 
If only 25% of 400,000 Swiss Muslims establish dialogue with their neighbours, classmates, colleagues and other Swiss people and remove misunderstandings and the hate that some Islamophobe politicians have created in their minds, I am sure within a year the proponents of religious tolerance in Switzerland will win the next referendum. This will help in restoring the good image of Switzerland that has been tarnished due to few Swiss Islamophobes. 
 
Moreover, about 7%, or 14.5 billion Swiss francs ($14.4 billion), of Swiss exports go to Muslim countries. Swiss economy needs markets in Muslim countries.
 
If the Swiss conservatives want to question the growth of Islam, they should establish dialogue with Swiss Muslims. I am sure they will find blessings in the growth of Islam. Christianity and Islam do not fear each other. It is the misguided Christians and Muslims that create fear of each other.
 
Although, the tragedy of 9/11, the terrorism around the world, the Danish cartoons, the Islamophobe movies, the ban on hijab in France and the ban on mosque minarets in Switzerland have helped in increasing Islamophobia and hate towards Muslims but these tragedies have also increased curiosity about Islam in the minds of millions of non-Muslims.  And when a curious non-Muslim meets with the true follower of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and learns Islam, this non-Muslim embraces Islam without any hesitation.  I strongly believe the current persecution of Islam will lead towards the renaissance of Islam.  Muslims have to go through the current sufferings and chaos. The renaissance of Islam is just around the corner. That’s the way I see this. May Allah bring peace for everyone on earth. Amen.
 
 

Monday, December 21, 2009

IS INDIA POISED FOR A DRASTIC REGIME CHANGE? By Ghulam Muhammed

IS INDIA POISED FOR A DRASTIC REGIME CHANGE?
 
 
THE TIMES OF INDIA IN A SHORT NOTE ON ITS FRONT PAGE QUOTES PEW RESEARCH ON WORLD SURVEY ON RELIGIOUS RESTRICTIONS IN WORLD'S 25 MOST POPULOUS NATIONS. TOI HEADLINES: INDIA 2ND WORST IN RELIGIOUS BIAS, SECOND ONLY TO IRAQ. REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ SAW SHIAS COMING TO POWER, DEPOSING SUNNIS IN IRAQ. WILL THE SAME PRETEXT FOR REGIME CHANGE WILL VISIT INDIA? WILL BRAHMINS BE REPLACED BY OTHER RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN INDIA? THE CHANGE COULD COME BY NEGOTIATION OR BY USE OF FORCE.
 
WE INDIANS WOULD ALWAYS OPT FOR PEACE AND CONSENSUS AND BE PREPARED FOR ADJUSTMENTS WITHOUT OTHER FORCES, FORCING THEIR AGENDA ON US.
 
GHULAM MUHAMMED, MUMBAI
 
 
 
 
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
 
Religious Restrictions in the 25 Most Populous Countries

Friday, December 18, 2009

Muslims Say F.B.I. Tactics Sow Anger and Fear - The New York Times



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/us/18muslims.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all


New York Times



Muslims Say F.B.I. Tactics Sow Anger and Fear


Published: December 17, 2009

The anxiety and anger have been building all year. In March, a national coalition of Islamic organizations warned that it would cease cooperating with the F.B.I. unless the agency stopped infiltrating mosques and using “agents provocateurs to trap unsuspecting Muslim youth.”


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Sheik Tarek Saleh said he used to welcome F.B.I. agents.

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Linda Sarsour, director of the Arab-American Association of New York, said that bonds with the F.B.I. were not permanent.

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Wael Mousfar, president of the Arab Muslim American Federation, said people worry about “who might report them.”

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In September, a cleric in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, sued the government, claiming that the F.B.I. had threatened to scuttle his application for a green card unless he agreed to spy on relatives overseas — echoing similar claims made in recent court cases in California, Florida and Massachusetts.

And last month, after an imam in Queens was charged with aiding what the authorities called a bomb-making plot, a group of South Asian Muslims there began compiling a database of complaints about their brushes with counterterrorism investigators.

Since the terror attacks of 2001, the F.B.I. and Muslim and Arab-American leaders across the country have worked to build a relationship of trust, sharing information both to fight terrorism and to protect the interests of mosques and communities.

But those relations have reached a low point in recent months, many Muslim leaders say. Several high-profile cases in which informers have infiltrated mosques and helped promote plots, they say, have sown a corrosive fear among their people that F.B.I. informers are everywhere, listening.

“There is a sense that law enforcement is viewing our communities not as partners but as objects of suspicion,” said Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, who represented Muslims at the national prayer service a day after President Obama’s inauguration. “A lot of people are really, really alarmed about this.”

There is little doubt that a spate of recent cases — from the alleged bomb plot by a former Manhattan coffee vendor,Najibullah Zazi, to the shootings at Fort Hood, in Texas — has heightened Americans’ concerns about homegrown terrorism. Muslim leaders have promised to redouble efforts to combat extremism in their ranks.

Yet they also worry about the fallout for the vast numbers of the innocent. Some Muslims, Ms. Mattson said, have canceled trips abroad to avoid arousing suspicion. People are wary of whom they speak to. Community groups say it is harder to find volunteers. Many Muslim charities are hobbled.

And some law enforcement experts warn of a farther-reaching consequence: the loss of a critical early-warning system against domestic terrorism.

“This is a national security issue,” said David Schanzer, who heads the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University. “It’s absolutely vital that the F.B.I. and the Muslim-American community clear the air and figure out how to work together.”

Even in better times, the relationship has been a challenge to maintain, given that counterterrorism agents operate on multiple levels — holding open meetings at a mosque, say, and seeding it with informers.

The F.B.I. has defended its practices, saying it must pursue suspects wherever they go. Paul Bresson, an F.B.I. spokesman, said in an interview that it tries to resolve anxieties by giving community leaders “explanations, where the circumstances permit, and resolving concerns where possible.”

In October, agents met privately in Queens with more than 40 Muslim and Arab-American leaders to hear their grievances, and agency officials said they anticipated more sessions in New York and other cities. In July, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. took questions about counterterrorism tactics from 200 young Muslims at a Los Angeles mosque.

Mr. Bresson said that no group is spotlighted because of its members’ religion or ethnicity. “The F.B.I. investigates people, not places, and only when we have information or allegations that persons are or may be committing crimes or posing a risk to national security,” he said.
Yet the Justice Department has in the last two years loosened some restrictions on agents’ ability to start and conduct terrorism investigations. The new guidelines, which the F.B.I. confirmed in October in response to a suit filed by the civil rights group Muslim Advocates, make it easier to plant informers and allow agents to include ethnicity and religion in the assessment of targets, as long as those are not the only factors considered.

After four members of a mosque in Newburgh, N.Y., were charged in May with plotting to bomb two Bronx synagogues, the authorities acknowledged that the investigation had begun with an informer who became a linchpin in the scheme. Congregation members said he had frequented the mosque, offering young men money and gifts.

The Queens imam arrested in September as investigators pursued the coffee vendor was an informer who had helped authorities. Last month, federal prosecutors moved to seize several buildings across the country that house mosques, saying they were owned by a nonprofit group with links to Iran. As a rare federal investigation that has ensnared houses of worship, the case stoked apprehensions that the government sees Arab-Americans and Muslims as a people apart.

“We are citizens who care about our country as much as everyone,” said Wael Mousfar, president of the Arab Muslim American Federation, a New York umbrella group. “But people don’t know what to expect — who might report them for speaking about Middle East politics, what someone might get your teenage son to do.”

His community’s relations with law enforcement were rocky in the weeks after 9/11, when the authorities began detaining hundreds of Muslim and Arab noncitizens, most of whom were cleared of links to terrorism and deported. But F.B.I. officials and leaders of Muslim, South Asian and Arab-American groups eventually forged an understanding, maintaining communication channels.

Linda Sarsour, director of the Arab-American Association of New York, a social-services agency, said that even then, the connection felt tentative. She was baffled when bonds that she and other leaders established with a New York F.B.I. chief evaporated upon the arrival of his successor.

Experts say that complaint partly reflects high turnover.

It also attests to differing views within the bureau about the effectiveness of community outreach, said Michael Rolince, a former director of counterterrorism in the F.B.I.’s Washington field office. Some factions within the agency, he said, have always been leery of Islamic and Arab-American organizations, considering their loyalties to be divided.

“There are some people in the bureau who believe, as I do, that the relationship with the Muslim community is crucial and must be developed with consistency,” Mr. Rolince said. “And there are those who don’t.”

The American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections, which threatened to cease cooperating with the F.B.I., has not yet done so.

But by most accounts, the unraveling of ties between the F.B.I. and Muslim-Americans began two years ago, with the F.B.I.’s decision to stop sharing information with the nation’s most prominent Muslim civil rights organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The F.B.I. said it was motivated by council executives’ failure to answer questions about links with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The executives denied any such connection, and accused the F.B.I. of staining the council’s reputation without due process.

In June, the American Civil Liberties Union made a similar complaint about Justice Department decisions to shut down six Muslim charities without filing charges. The moves, which froze billions of dollars in assets, have instilled among Muslims “a pervasive fear that they may be arrested, prosecuted, targeted for law enforcement interviews” if they give to any Islamic charity, the A.C.L.U. said.

Imam Mohammad Shamsi Ali, chief cleric at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, in Manhattan, said that his organization had suffered a 30 to 40 percent decline in contributions since 2001, in part because of that fear. He said the center no longer solicits donations from individuals living abroad ”because of the possibility that we could be misunderstood.”

Still, the specter looming largest among immigrant Arabs and Muslims is fear of deportation. And some say the F.B.I. has used that threat forcefully.

Sheik Tarek Saleh, the Bay Ridge cleric who is suing the government, said he welcomed F.B.I. agents at his storefront mosque after 9/11 when they asked about his kinship with Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a high-ranking Al Qaeda militant and his cousin’s husband.

Sheik Saleh, 46, said he repeatedly discussed Mr. Yazid as well as his own former membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, a sometimes-violent political movement he joined as a teenager in Egypt and disavowed years later. But when he refused to travel overseas to spy on Mr. Yazid, he said, agents told him to forget his pending application for permanent residence.

In February, immigration officials told Sheik Saleh that the application had been rejected because he failed to fill in a section about ties to political groups. He contends that was a minor oversight. F.B.I. and immigration officials would not discuss his case.

Sheik Saleh said that he faced deportation because he resisted F.B.I. pressure. “Your dignity is bigger than the green card,” he said.

Zein Rimawi, a pet store owner and a founder of the Al-Noor School, a private school in Bay Ridge, said anxiety made people cautious about transactions with individuals and institutions — even his school, which he said was $700,000 in debt as a result.

Mr. Rolince, the former F.B.I. agent, said he understood the worries, but felt they were overblown. “The F.B.I. has 12,500 agents,” he said. “Believe me, there’s not enough of them to waste time looking at you unless they have a good reason.”


Ali Adeeb and Majeed Babar contributed reporting.