{"id":769,"date":"2008-06-26T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/06\/rights-group-sues-us-governmen.php"},"modified":"2008-06-26T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T17:17:05","slug":"rights-group-sues-us-governmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/06\/rights-group-sues-us-governmen","title":{"rendered":"Rights Group Sues US Government on Behalf of Muslim Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Associated Press &#8211; June 26, 2008<\/strong><br \/>\nPITTSBURGH &#8211; A Muslim nuclear physicist on Thursday accused the U.S. Department of Energy of revoking his security clearance in retaliation for his criticism of the government&#8217;s treatment of Muslims.<br \/>\nMoniem El-Ganayni, 57, an Egyptian who moved to the United States in 1980, had worked at the Bettis Laboratory in the Pittsburgh-suburb of West Mifflin for 18 years.<br \/>\nHe was fired after the DOE revoked his security clearance, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on his behalf. The ACLU is an organization that advocates individual rights.<br \/>\nEl-Ganayni is not necessarily looking to overturn the revocation. Instead, he is demanding that he be allowed to contest it before a &#8220;nonpolitical, neutral arbiter as mandated by DOE regulations,&#8221; a right that he lost when the department cited national security as the reason for the revocation.<br \/>\nDuring his years in Pittsburgh, El-Ganayni has been active in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Muslim community and helped establish one of the area&#8217;s first mosques.<br \/>\nThe department did not immediately return calls for comment.<br \/>\nBettis Laboratory is dedicated to working on the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, a joint Navy-Energy Department program responsible for nearly all aspects of U.S. nuclear-powered warships.<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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