Is it Islam that’s ‘Inherently Intolerant’ or is it American Society?
An account of the sentencing of Fahad Hashmi, an American citizen sentenced to 15 years for aiding al-Qaida.
By Madeleine Dubus
June 30, 2010
On June 9 at 3:30 p.m. over a hundred people lined the halls outside a courtroom at the U.S. District Courthouse at 500 Pearl [...]
A License to Witch-Hunt
A Supreme Court decision on the Patriot Act shows where Barack Obama stands.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/06/23/license-to-witch-hunt
June 23, 2010
THE U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a part of the USA PATRIOT Act that criminalizes free speech as “terrorism”–and the Obama administration, which was expected to stop its predecessor’s assault on the Constitution, is celebrating the decision [...]
NYC Case a Wake-Up Call for Muslims
May 6, 2010
by Aisha Gawad
I was raised in the Southern United States, reciting the pledge of allegiance every morning, memorizing the Bill of Rights, and listening to country singers croon about good ole American values. Like many young Muslim-Americans, I felt just like my blonde, blue-eyed classmates until the [...]
Published on Thursday, April 29, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
Fahad Hashmi and Terrorist Hysteria in US Courts
by Andy Worthington
In America’s post-9/11 zeal for elevating terror suspects to the status of supermen, existentially threatening the very life of the United States in an unprecedented manner (rather than managing one massive attack on the US through the intelligence agencies’ [...]
Pakistani-Born New Yorker Faces Terrorism Trial
Carolyn Weaver | New York23 April 2010
They call it “Radio Free Fahad,” the vigil held by friends and supporters of Syed “Fahad” Hashmi every two weeks outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. The 29-year-old Hashmi, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen who grew [...]
Prosecutor Seeks Anonymous Jury in New York “Terror” Trial
William Fisher
NEW YORK, Apr 22 (IPS) – U.S. Justice Department lawyers petitioned a federal court Wednesday to begin a controversial terror-related trial in New York City with an “anonymous jury” in order to protect the jurors, lawyers and court officials.
The motion asks that the jurors hearing the [...]
By Sara Flounders
New York
Published Apr 21, 2010 3:24 PM
Here in New York City a young man is being held under conditions that are described in international law as severe torture. This prisoner, named Fahad Hashmi, has not been convicted of any crime and has no prior criminal record. Yet he has been held in almost [...]
New Yorker Accused of Helping al-Qaida About to Go on Trial
by Farah Akbar
Apr 2010
New Yorker Syed “Fahad” Hashmi, an American citizen who has been held in solitary confinement for nearly two and half years at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, is finally set to go on trial April 28 [...]
Guantánamo in New York City
Muslim-American Fahad Hashmi has been imprisoned in solitary confinement for over two years awaiting trial.
By Madeleine Dubus
April 7, 2010
“You’re twelve miles away knowing your brother is getting tortured and there’s nothing you can do about it,” Faisal Hashmi, of Flushing, Queens, tells me on March 8, 2010, the night of the [...]
Feel Safer Now?
By William Fisher [Formerly served State and Agency for International Development]
The Huffington Post
April 6, 2010
I write a lot of stories, news mostly. They’re carried by InterPress News Service. I’ve been doing this for a very long time, so I’m usually able to separate myself from what I’m writing about so I don’t get [...]
