According to Press TV, in less than two weeks, the Human Rights Council will, for the first time ever, assess the human rights status of the United States in a Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Activist and Imam of Masjid al-Islam Abdul Alim Musa told Press TV on Monday “We [Muslims] believe that it is our duty, it is our responsibility to stand up to what we call the United States government's 'constitutional dictatorship'.”
Ahead of a review of the US human rights records by the UN Human Rights Council, an African-American Muslim activist, Muslims live under says “dictatorship” in the US.
He added “When we say a constitutional dictatorship, we mean that they have a constitution, but with all of the new anti-terrorism bills, patriot acts, all of the homeland securities, all of the FBI memos... all of these new charges that they operate on allow them to go around all of the constitutional guarantees [for human rights,].”
According to a UPR report provided by the US government, the unemployment rate for African-Americans is 15.8 percent and for Hispanics, 12.4, compared to only 8.8 percent for whites.
It is not only the Muslims that are under pressure in the United States, as other minorities also suffer discrimination.
It is not only the Muslims that are under pressure in the United States, as other minorities also suffer discrimination.
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