On 10/10/2015, Hesham El-Meligy of Muslims for Liberty gave a presentation at LibertyFest NYC 2015. Hesham spoke about the founding of Muslims for Liberty and the surveillance, and ethnic and religious profiling of the Muslim communities done by the NYPD and the FBI and how that is a dangerous slippery slope to everyone losing their rights. He also told the story of his own encounter with an undercover informant who almost entrapped him, but instead entrapped 2 mentally challenged young Muslim men.