What Next: Is the FBI’s Surveillance of Muslims Really a State Secret?

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🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Members of an Orange County mosque noticed a new convert was asking some strange questions. He turned out to be an FBI informant. Will the Supreme Court allow the bureau to be held accountable? Guest: Rowaida Abdelaziz, national reporter covering Islamophobia & immigration for HuffPost. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.8	Rheweida Abdelaziz reports on immigration and Islamophobia for the Huffington Post.
0:37.7	And she says her beat, combined with the fact that she herself is a Muslim, it's meant
0:42.8	China sources are sometimes asking themselves this question.
0:47.3	MI being watched.
0:48.7	The attention is always there and I think oftentimes it presents itself as this dark,
0:54.2	this is a theoretical joke.
0:55.5	I've been in circles with friends or on the phone with friends where perhaps a joke has
1:00.5	been made or we said something in passing and then all of a sudden the joke is, oh well,
1:06.6	to the agent that's listening, I'm obviously just joking, right?
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