{"id":502346,"date":"2026-06-20T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502346\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:25:22","slug":"milwaukee-mosque-president-says-he-was-targeted-due-to-his-support-for-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/502346\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Mosque President Says He Was Targeted Due to His Support for Palestine \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"image_btn\" style=\"margin:0px;\" title=\"Milwaukee Mosque President Says He Was Targeted Due to His Support for Palestine \u00a0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/df8fc982Zjo0MzQ0MjMyLnBuZ3xmdWk6MjM0MTI1fGw6ZW58djox.png\" alt=\"Salah Sarsour\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Following a ruling from a federal judge on Thursday to release Salah Sarsour from ICE custody, the president of Wisconsin\u2019s largest mosque is back in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Sarsour made his way back from Indiana to Milwaukee on Thursday evening. On Friday, he attended prayer sessions and spoke with the media following his release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">After 80 days in ICE custody, Sarsour said being back in his home mosque praying with his friends and family is a moment he\u2019s been waiting for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u201cFinally, I am back, and I am here with my grandchildren and my family,\u201d Sarsour said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Sarsour has been the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">He is originally from the West Bank but has been in the US as a lawful permanent resident for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Sarsour said he believes his advocacy for Palestinian rights is why he\u2019s being targeted, which falls under free speech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">He was arrested by ICE in March, with the government claiming he was a foreign policy threat. Back in 1989 and 1995, the Israeli regime\u2019s military court convicted him of crimes against Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u201cThese are 30-year-old stale allegations that they are dredging up now,\u201d his attorney, Luna Droubi, said. \u201cThey know they are false. In fact, they chose to not believe them multiple times during Mr. Sarsour\u2019s 30 years in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Sarsour denies he committed these crimes and said they haven\u2019t impacted his citizenship eligibility for over 25 years. He said he was pleased with the judge\u2019s decision to release him from custody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u201cThe way he chose to be a just judge, and honestly, he gave me hope for the system,\u201d Sarsour said. \u201cThat thank God we still have good people who can give the right judgement for a bright future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Read More: <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Sarsour\u2019s release does not mean a decision has been made on his deportation. His attorney said they plan to move forward with legal action to keep Sarsour in the US and will be working on his immigration case and federal case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u201cWe believe strongly that the judge will come down and rule definitively that Salah Sarsour\u2019s constitutional rights were violated,\u201d Droubi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Sarsour said there is still a long road ahead, but he is thankful to be home with his family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Source: spectrumnews1.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Following a ruling from a federal judge on Thursday to release Salah Sarsour from ICE custody, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,230976,96871,43,40,38,41,39,230975,230974],"class_list":["post-502346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-islamophobia-in-us","tag-israeli-regime","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-muslims","tag-us-state-of-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}