the muslim culture?" >> reporter: mainstream muslim groups have been trying to provide more support for latino converts. amana, the american muslim associationorth america, focuses on outreach and distributes qurans and islamic literature. director sofian zakkout says they can't keep up with latino demands for spanish translations. >> i have a guy from ecuador. i give him quran, and he was very happy. "i've been looking for it for two years." and i have a guy, cuban. i give him quran, he start to dance in the street. free quran. because they hear about the quran, but they never seen it because it's not easy to find it. but we find it, we have it. >> reporter: on the wall of amana's miami office, zakkout keeps a sampling of conversion certificates with latino names. >> if i want to put all the certificates, a copy of all certificates, we need all the rooms and all the walls to cover it because we really have a lot. >> reporter: at recent national conventions, the islamic circle of north america has been holding special session in spanish for converts. >> many of them don't speak english, so it's very important for them to go to these conventi

the american muslim council he after i had left the american muslim council was arrested and basically tried and convicted for you know from assassinate to the crown prince of saudi arabia. my association with him was very minor and at the time that i met him every congressman was meeting him jim moran tom davis anybody nor. virginia was meeting he went to meet governor bush that time governor bush in the governor's mansion in austin texas so that's when i met him when every politician was meeting including the future president so we can assume that governor bush is also the heart of the little house and then i was cleared and so they said that i lot of my security clearance forms that i didn't disclose my association with the american muslim council which is absolutely false i disclose everything. that i disclose or you know this is also. a former f.b.i. agent named john huang dolo and so that you played a major role in the muslim brotherhood he responded as guys claim it's absolute because i have never met anybody in the muslim brotherhood i'm not in the muslim brotherhood i've never gone to egypt i've never associated there has not been one statement at all but tributed to be espous

bush is also part of the little house and then i was cleared and so they said that i lot of my security clearance forms that i didn't disclose my association with the american muslim council which is absolutely false i disclose everything. that i disclose or you know this is also. a former f.b.i. agent named john quando and so that you played a major role in the muslim brotherhood he responded to his claim it's absolute because i have never met anybody in the muslim brotherhood i'm not in the muslim brotherhood i've never gone to egypt i've never associated there has not been one statement at all but tributed to be a spouse any violent views or any views of the most of brotherhood at all and i would not know them and i'm not i'm not any were affiliated with them so to play a major role in the muslim brotherhood is absolutely ridiculous it does sound very inflammatory and baseless you know as you mentioned before and there's there's absolutely nothing in your past that could warrant this type of a green just surveillance which leads me to believe or i guess the question why you five i mean you all are muslim most of americans do you think that this fine has to do w

the u.s. government of being associated with terrorism and you worked briefly for the american muslim council and the leader of the group was later sentenced to jail for the libyan plot for the crown prince of saudi arabia. is it not possible that those were the reasons why there was surveillance? i'll start with you. >> i'm a civil rights lawyer. i had a lot of clients, if it's my clients that's calling it, that's a reason for pause to find out what benefit does the government have listening in on the lawyer's communications in my case his client, what information can they use in court. in these cases i was against the government and i was winning against the government. imagine an agent telling his or her supervisors, we had listen to his calls and maybe we can go to court to beat him and while it sounds plausible, as a lawyer, that's not the way to go about doing it. >> and you, it's an even more interesting story for you because you worked for the bush administration for the department of homeland security at the time. >> that's right. that's why my number one reaction was of shock and su