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Posted: 6/18/2013 3:24:53 PM EST
Imam Siraj Wahhaj, of Masjid At-Taqwa, foreground right, and plaintiff Imam Hamid Hassan Raza, of Masjid Al-Ansar, center, confer during a gathering on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:56:49 PM EST
Imam Al-Hajj Talib ' Abdur-Rashid, foreground right, and plaintiff Asad Dandia, center, confer during a gathering on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:56:49 PM EST
Supporters of a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program, hold signs during a gathering on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:56:49 PM EST
Supporters of a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program, hold signs during a gathering on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:56:49 PM EST
Three Muslim women get together on a plaza at a gathering in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:56:49 PM EST
Hina Shamsi, left, director of the ACLU's National Security Project, addresses the media on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:56:49 PM EST
Supporters of a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program, hold signs during a gathering on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Friday, June 7, 2013 photo, Egyptians walk by garbage on Al Ashraf street in Cairo, Egypt. The street is lined by shrines, mosques and historic houses. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Sunday, June 9, 2013 photo, an Egyptian Salafi man speaks on a mobile phone as passing by a banner showing the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, from right, Hezbollah leader sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Syrian President Bashar Assad during an anti-Shiite protest in front the Lebanese Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Sunday, June 9, 2013 photo, an Egyptian man with his horse passes by the tomb of Sayyida Atika, aunt of Islam's Prophet Mohammad, center right, and of Al Sayyid Ali bin Mohammed bin Ja'far al-Sadiq, center left, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Sunday, June 9, 2013 photo, the entrance of the tombs of Sayyida Atika, aunt of Islam's Prophet Mohammad, right, and Al Sayyid Ali bin Mohammed bin Ja'far al-Sadiq, partly seen in the background, are seen in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Friday, June 7, 2013 photo, a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, and a Turban of Al Sayyid Ali Al Ja'fari are seen inside the shrine of Ali bin Mohammed bin Ja'far al-Sadiq in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Friday, June 7, 2013 photo, a man prays at the shrine of Al Sayyid Ali bin Mohammed bin Ja'far al-Sadiq in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Tuesday, June 4, 2013 photo, Egyptian Sufi Muslims perform Zikr, or remembrance of God ritual, as they celebrate Moulid inside the Sayyeda Zeinab shrine in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. Egyptians celebrate Moulid, which commemorates the birth of Muslim Prophet Mohammed's granddaughter, Zeinab, by performing ritual dances and prayers and having fun with their families. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Tuesday, June 4, 2013 photo, a man prays at the shrine of Sayyeda Zeinab, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. Egyptians celebrate Moulid, which commemorates the birth of Muslim Prophet Mohammed's granddaughter, Zeinab, by performing ritual dances and prayers and having fun with their families. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Tuesday, June 4, 2013 photo, Egyptian Sufi Muslims perform Zikr, or remembrance of god ritual, as they celebrate Moulid inside the Sayyeda Zeinab shrine in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. Egyptians celebrate Moulid, which commemorates the birth of Muslim Prophet Mohammed's granddaughter, Zeinab, by performing ritual dances and prayers and having fun with their families. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Monday, June 3, 2013 photo, Children play on a carousel as they celebrate Moulid outside the Sayyeda Zeinab shrine, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. Egyptians celebrate Moulid, which commemorates the birth of Muslim Prophet Mohammed's granddaughter, Zeinab, by performing ritual dances and prayers and having fun with their families. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Thursday, June 6, 2013 photo, a man prays at the shrine of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Islam's prophet Muhammad and one of the most believed Shiite saints in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Thursday, June 6, 2013 photo, a man prays holding his rosary at the shrine of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Islam's prophet Muhammad and one of the most believed Shiite saints, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Posted: 6/14/2013 8:09:12 AM EST
In this Thursday, June 6, 2013 photo, a man is praying as he holds the iron cage that contains the tomb of at the shrine of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Islam's prophet Muhammad and one of the most believed Shiite saints, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s roughly 15 million Sufi Muslims say their places of worship are under threat by rising radicalism. They say that since the country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, shrines held sacred to them have been attacked by hardliners who deem them heretical and idolatrous. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
