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| MAS: American detained/tortured in SA at behest of U.S. |
| 2004-06-18 |
| excerpted from a press release by the Muslim American Society’s Freedom Foundation. Possibly newsworthy as a newsie asked Boucher about the detention at the State Department Daily Press Briefing. Boucher responded that he couldn’t release information about Ahmed Abu-Ali’s situation wihout a Privacy Act release signed by the detainee. I enjoyed that answer. Ahmed Abu-Ali, age 23, is a U.S. born citizen and an honor student who was valedictorian of his high school class. Ahmed Abu-Ali also has been detained and possibly tortured while being incarcerated in Saudi Arabia for over a year. According to Saudi authorities, Mr. Abu-Ali’s detention has been at the request of the U.S. Government. -snip- details about the situation According to MAS Freedom Executive Director Mahdi Bray, "When we look at Abu Gharib, the possible presidential memo on torture, individuals sent by the U.S. to third countries for torture, the wrongful detention of American Muslim attorney Brandon Mayfield and what has happened to Ahmed Abu-Ali, we must question with the utmost seriousness how our government is waging this war on terrorism. We must resist with every fiber of our being a war on terrorism waged at the expense of the life and liberty of the Muslim community. If we fail to do so, this guilt by association, hysteria and rush to judgment impacting our community will be a huge dark stain on the fabric of America’s commitment to human rights, due process and justice." |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #5 If you are an American, and do not find what was done to our Fellow American, Mr. Johnson, then I think you need to move to a country that asks nothing of you, except existing.....We all need to give something back to the Giver that gave us LIFE, whoever that might be. But to accept the life as it is becoming, would be suicide. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5291 2004-06-19 10:01:01 PM |
| #4 As well you should be sarge, especially in light of the facts of islam that we have been uncovering daily. I wonder why they would now begin to "condemn these brutal acts" when for so long, they only condemned mosques being damaged in Iraq. They are not to be trusted and I suspect many more muslims are practicing taqiyah... |
| Posted by: jawa 2004-06-18 6:51:47 PM |
| #3 Maybe it's the time we live in, but I instantly suspicious of any organization with Arab or Muslim in the title. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-06-18 2:52:43 PM |
| #2 Did they have a release re: Johnson's beheading. My prediction: Johnson's beheading will be a heavy straw for Americans already tired from 9/11 and terror fatigue. |
| Posted by: B 2004-06-18 1:54:33 PM |
| #1 ..rush to judgment impacting our community.. On the contrary, it's been a long time coming, guys. Silence and seeming indifference on your part as your fellow adherents commit atrocities of the worst kind (while invoking the name of Allah a lot of the time) tends to have that sort of effect on a lot of non-Muslims... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-18 11:17:20 AM |