The recent arrest and detention of Sheikh Zoubir
Bouchikhi, for alleged immigration violations,
has sent shockwaves through the Houston, Texas
Muslim community.
Sheikh Zoubir, a Muslim cleric with a wife and
four children, is a brilliant religious scholar
and committed community leader in the Greater
Houston area, and his detention has raised
serious concern by legal experts and civil
rights advocates because of the way in which his
immigration status as a religious worker was
challenged by immigration officials.
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