Pakistani Group Seeks Feedback on INS Interviews

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It is not piety, that you turn your faces to the east and to west, true piety is this: To believe in God, and the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, and the Prophets, to give one's substance, however cherished, to kinsmen, and orphans, the needy, the travelers, beggars, and to ransom the slave to perform the prayers, to pay the alms, they who fulfill their covenant when they engaged in a covenant and endure with fortitude misfortunes, hardships, and peril; these are they who are true in their faith, these are the truly God fearing. Quran 2:177.

Pakistani Group Seeks Feedback on INS Interviews

WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 15, 2003: Following is a request that we received from a federation of Pakistani groups on the East Coast. They are having a meeting with ACLU tomorrow on possible violations of constitutional rights during INS Call-In interviews. Please send your feedback to Mr. Sohail Muzaffar, President FAPA, at: zmuzaffar@aol.com
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FAPA is a federation consisting of twenty-seven New York-New Jersey based Pakistani cultural and civic associations. We are currently working to assist non immigrant Pakistani nationals to properly register with INS under 'NSEERS'.

FAPA is also working on the legal front, and in this regard, we have scheduled a meeting with ACLU in their New York office.

We are looking for information which was posted on through e-mails 6-10 days ago in which some people who had gone for interviews had given the feedback saying the INS officials had asked intrusive questions about the faith.

The questions were: 'how many times do you pray? What mosque do you attend? How much money did you give to the mosque? What imam do you follow? What religious party do you belong to Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam or Jamaat-e-Islami?

There may be a chance for us to file a law suit based on constitutional protection of freedom of religion.

'How many time I pray' is not the business of 'the state' to know and register in their books.

So please search and forward all such e-mails to us so that We can take them to ACLU meeting tomorrow.

Suhail Muzaffar

President 'FAPA' ( Federation of Associations of Pakistani Americans, Inc)
e-mail: zmuzaffar@aol.com

Date/Time Last Modified: 1/16/2003 10:47:22 AM