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Counterterrorism
Reports from Yale University describe recent advances in counterterrorism
May 24th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "Counterterrorism officials increasingly seek to scrutinize conduct and behavior that they believe, however uncertainly, to be probative of terrorist activity." "When such conduct-based profiling specifically targets activity that is also expressive of Muslim identity, it may inflict pervasive dignitary and stigmatic harms upon the American Muslim community. Those seeking redress from such policies through litigation would find that existing constitutional doctrine does not readily let judges account for group harms when balancing the interests at stake," wrote M. Hussain and colleagues, Yale University. ...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-05-24)
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