On the Friday afternoon before the presidential election, Ahmed was at home with his family in Texas, when he heard a knock at the door. He answered in an undershirt and shorts, and found two men who were dressed casually. It was the FBI.
Ahmed, a doctor, who says he's never even had a parking ticket, was at first surprised and then scared.
“I didn't know my rights,” Ahmed, whose name has been changed for fear of reprisal, told the Guardian, “that I could tell them to reschedule it or I could refuse to talk to them.”
Ahmed was one of at least 109 people who contacted the Council of American Islamic Relations (Cair) to say they were visited by the FBI days before the election. Donald Trump's subsequent victory has raised fears of increased surveillance against the Muslim community, and the possibility of a Muslim registry.
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