Muslim physicist says feds retaliated against him

[struggle4progress]

Source: Associated Press

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI

PITTSBURGH (AP) — An Islamic nuclear physicist on Thursday accused the U.S. Department of Energy of revoking his security clearance in retaliation for his criticism of the government's treatment of Muslims.

Moniem El-Ganayni had worked at the Bettis Laboratory in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Mifflin for 18 years. He was fired in May after the department revoked his security clearance, according to a federal lawsuit filed on his behalf Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The Department of Energy denied El-Ganayni the right to appeal the revocation by saying its reasons are classified and could violate national security if made public. El-Ganayni is demanding that he be allowed to contest it before a "nonpolitical, neutral arbiter as mandated by DOE regulations" ...

He has given speeches critical of U.S. foreign policy, the war in Iraq and attempts by the FBI to recruit Muslim tipsters inside mosques. El-Ganayni has also ministered to Muslim prison inmates ...

Read more: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jgZ8BWXMA6dUcoG2jvsKPfU2C7ygD91I2LCG0

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It's a short story: click the link and read it

<edit:> to add link. doh!

[pfitz59]

1. Al-gebra...invented by Muslims...

Confiscated by the Bushistas!

[whopis01]

3. Algebra predates Muslims by millenia. n/t

[BunkerHill24]

4. You better better reread your Western Ciz...n/t

[whopis01]

6. Babylonians and Egyptians were solving quadratics well before Islam. At least as early as 1800 BCE.

Al-Khwarizmi wrote his compendium, Al-jabr wa'l muqabalah, in the 9th century and gave algebra its modern name, but he hardly invented it.

[gatorboy]

5. Well now I know who to blame for all those torturous high school years.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. "You'll lose your job, and we won't tell you why."

Bastards.

[conspirator]

7. We know why. Cause he is brown. And browns cannot have nukes

:sarcasm: