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San Bernardino Shooting Categorized as Terrorism…But Where Do We Draw the Line?
On Wednesday, December 2, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, carried out what is now known as the nation’s most deadly mass shooting since the Sandy Hook Massacre i...
State-Sponsored Terrorism: Cases of Aafia Siddiqui & Alicia Partnoy
By Ameen Omar Why do citizens of a democratic society ignore state-sponsored terrorism? As U.S. citizens, we have seen numerous cases where our own state was the chief perpetrator of torture an...
Defense Confirms: Rasmea Odeh Targeted for Palestine Activism
The defense team for Chicago Palestinian community leader, Rasmea Odeh, have uncovered new evidence that confirms her alleged immigration fraud case is based on her being targeted for Palestine a...
NSA & FBI Spying on Muslims: Old Story, New Target
In an article published by The Intercept , Glenn Greenwald and Murtaaza Hussain describe five prominent American Muslims who had long been under surveillance by the NSA and the FBI including Nih...
Dr. Sami Al-Arian’s Case: Dropping Charges Doesn’t Erase Injustice
Last Friday, federal prosecutors dropped all charges against Dr. Sami Al-Arian, University of South Florida professor, Palestinian activist and community leader, who has been in house arrest limb...
“Professional” Islamophobes in the Media Perpetuating False Crusade
On June 22nd, CNN aired a debate between Brigitte Gabriel, founder of ACT! For America and Linda Sarsour, director of the Arab American Association of New York on the question of whether the me...
Muslims are no more terrorists than Chicagoans are violent
As of today , there have been 940 shooting victims in the city of Chicago. Last year, there were 2185 victims of gun violence. Combined, that is more victims than those who perished on 9/11, and ...
Rasmea Odeh: Repression of a Palestinian Community Leader
On June 10 in Detroit, Rasmea Odeh, a 66 year old Chicago Palestinian and Arab community organizer, will start her trial for allegedly “lying” on her twenty year old citizenship application a...
Guantanamo North and the Denial of Prisoner Rights
In late April, Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) documents describing the process for designating prisoners to Communications Management Units (CMUs), or as some call them “Guantanamo North”, were m...
Not a Terrorist?
I first learned about the incident through a tweet from Boston-based journalist Omar Sacirbey : “Did you hear we caught a terrorist last week?” And I said to myself: “Why, no, I did not.”...
Muslim-American Faces Terrorism Charges Based on FBI Informant
Mohammad Hassan Hamdan, a 22-year-old from Dearborn Heights, Michigan was arrested on Sunday, March 16 at Detroit Metro Airport by the FBI who said he allegedly told an undercover informant th...
February: A Month to Focus on the Hunger Strikes at Guantanamo
February 2014 marks the anniversary of the massive campaign of hunger strikes by Guantanamo Bay Detention Center detainees. People in Chicago will be holding several events in solidarity. The att...