The "Islamization of America"

[FourScore]

My Father, 9/11 Scapegoat -- Laila Al-Arian

"If they can kill each other during Ramadan, they can appear before the grand jury. I am not going to put off Dr. Al- Arian's grand jury appearance just to assist in what is becoming the Islamization of America."
-- federal prosecutor Gordon Kromberg

"The conditions under which Dr. Al-Arian has been detained both during his pre-trial detention, and since his sentencing appear to be unacceptably harsh and punitive."
-- Amnesty International

"My father, a Palestinian professor named Sami Al-Arian, was arrested over four years ago on trumped up terrorism charges and submitted to a prosecution over the course of six months that bordered on the farcical. Though he was ultimately acquitted by a jury of the most serious charges against him, the Bush administration has prolonged his imprisonment indefinitely. My father now languishes in a Virginia jail, another victim of the demagogic politics of the so-called war on terror...

SNIP

When my father's trial finally began in June 2005, the government presented 71 witnesses, including nearly two dozen from Israel, paraded before the jury for sheer emotional effect. Four hundred phone calls out of half a million the government recorded during a decade of relentless, indiscriminate surveillance of my family were also presented. The prosecutors acted out the phone calls on the 13th floor of a courtroom in downtown Tampa, giving new meaning to the phrase political theater.

...The government's evidence against my father largely consisted of speeches he gave, magazines he edited, lectures he presented, articles he wrote, books he owned (4 out of 5,000), conferences he organized, rallies he attended, and news he heard. In one particularly bizarre instance, the prosecutors presented as evidence a conversation a co-defendant had with my father in a dream...

SNIP

...Because the government based its case on my father's expressed political views, our lawyers rested without presenting a single witness. Our defense was the First Amendment."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laila-alarian/my-father-911-scapegoat_b_46624.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. First they came for the Muslims,

and then they came for the liberals,
and them they came for me, and there was no one left to protect me.

This shredding of the Constitution should be considered a threat by ALL Americans.

[PDJane]

2. The fate of this man

Should concern every one of us, American or not.

Having a contrary political viewpoint was not, at last glance, a criminal act.

[CJCRANE]

3. The "Islamization of America"....

more like the Saudi Arabia-ization of America which is the Republican Theocons' agenda (a religious fundamentalist homeland stripped of civil liberties and womens rights, ruled by an aristocratic bloodline).

[shadowknows69]

4. How about the christianization of our nation

why do I still have to put up with Christian national holidays?