{"id":1439,"date":"2002-05-06T23:11:31","date_gmt":"2002-05-07T04:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2002-05-06T23:11:31","modified_gmt":"2002-05-07T04:11:31","slug":"israelis_arrest_two_american_muslim_relief_workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/05\/israelis_arrest_two_american_muslim_relief_workers\/","title":{"rendered":": Israelis Arrest Two American Muslim Relief Workers"},"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><p>Israeli authorities have arrested two American Muslims affiliated with relief organizations, including a Muslim <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com%2Fforum%2Fcomm%2F20020403edriad03p1.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">commentator<\/a> who recently described by telephone and in e-mails the destruction he saw in Jenin.  Riad Abdelkarim, a physician from Los Angeles and founder of the American Muslim children\u2019s charity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinderusa.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">KinderUSA<\/a>, along with KinderUSA President Ms. Dallal Muhammad, was <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20020506%2Fap_on_re_mi_ea%2Famericans_arrested_2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">detained Sunday<\/a> while trying to return to the United States.  \u201cThe past 36 hours have been an extremely difficult time for our family,\u201d said Riad\u2019s family in a statement. \u201cOur greatest fear right now is for Riad\u2019s safety, given Israel\u2019s acknowledged policy of using \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.btselem.org%2FEnglish%2FPublications%2FSummaries%2FLegitimizing_Torture.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">physical pressure<\/a>\u2018 in questioning suspects, including American citizens.\u201d   Israeli authorities called Riad\u2019s wife in California on Sunday and urged her to hire an attorney.  <\/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>Continuing a policy of stifling investigation into Israel&#8217;s military actions in Jenin, two American Muslim relief workers have been arrested by Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Israelis Arrest Two American Muslim Relief 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