Senate Committee Dangerously Singles Out Muslims in Report

The ACLU and nearly twenty other groups sent a memo to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee outlining concerns with its new report,"Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorism Threat," most notably the free speech implications of labeling the internet as a "weapon" and the unfair singling out of one religious group as possible "extremists."

"Once we begin trying to regulate belief systems, we have veered perilously far from the Constitution," said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. "

The ACLU statement here.