{"id":1422,"date":"2002-05-02T22:05:51","date_gmt":"2002-05-03T03:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2002-05-02T22:05:51","modified_gmt":"2002-05-03T03:05:51","slug":"quid_pro_show_muslims_trade_legal_wins_and_losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/05\/quid_pro_show_muslims_trade_legal_wins_and_losses\/","title":{"rendered":": Quid Pro Show: Muslims Trade Legal Wins and Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/bif.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pic\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201d border=\u201d0\u2033&gt;\n\n<\/p><tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<p>In a week destined to form a dozen Law and Order episodes, a frenzy of legal activity has encirled U.S. Muslims over terrorism charges. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benevolence.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Benevolence International Foundation<\/a> head Enaam Arnaout, arrested since last year, was charged with <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fusatoday%2F20020501%2Fts_usatoday%2F4073416\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">perjury<\/a> after evidence was presented (mostly from a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fusatoday%2F20020501%2Fts_usatoday%2F4073638\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">raid on the BIF Bosnia office<\/a>) that seemed to contradict earlier statements against militancy \u2013 namely lots of firearms and Bin Laden pix (hey, who ever said anything about the appearance of impropriety?). On the other hand, a judge <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fnm%2F20020430%2Fts_nm%2Fattack_student_dc_3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">threw out<\/a> a case in which a Jordanian student was detained indefinitely as a material witness and not charged with a crime. \u201cRelying on the material witness statute to detain people in order to prevent potential crimes is illegitimate,\u201d she wrote. To top it all off, after attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Fpolitics_comments.php%3Fid%3D304_0_10_0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lynne Stewart<\/a> was busted for allegedly transferring messages to Al-Qaeda from her client, the court has had a hard time <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fnm%2F20020425%2Fts_nm%2Fattack_legal_dc_1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">finding new lawyers<\/a> who won\u2019t demand assurances that <i>their<\/i> attorney-client privileges not be violated as well (damn pesky laws). It\u2019s enough to make you wonder if anyone, Muslim defendants or the federal prosecution, is thinking more than 2 minutes ahead of themselves.        <\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the criminal justice system, Muslims are handled by two important groups &#8211; the prosecution who makes charges and the judges who throw them out. 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