Detroit Muslims Say Charity Harassed Again This Ramadan

In Detroit on Monday, federal agents with the Joint Terrorism Task Force executed search warrants on the offices of the Muslim charity Life for Relief and Development, as well as on homes and an office of three others connected with the charity. This morning's Detroit Free Press reports that Muslim leaders charge that there is a pattern of government harassment of Islamic charities each year near the start of the month of Ramadan. An FBI spokesman denied the charges, saying that the FBI "does not target people because of their religion." The raid may be connected to work the charity did in Iraq before the 2003 Iraq war.