{"id":1779,"date":"2003-06-04T01:38:19","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T06:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2003-06-04T01:38:19","modified_gmt":"2003-06-04T06:38:19","slug":"sifting_for_terrorists_lots_of_pain_little_gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/06\/sifting_for_terrorists_lots_of_pain_little_gain\/","title":{"rendered":": Sifting For Terrorists: Lots Of Pain, Little Gain"},"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><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Even though there is much rejoicing in the Department of Justice in the conviction of three of four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk%2Fseptember11%2Fstory%2F0%2C11209%2C970040%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Muslim immigrants<\/a> charged with being a \u201csleeper cell\u201d for al-Qaida, a new Justice Department report chronicles the \u201csignificant problems\u201d in the policy of rounding up 762 Muslim immigrants \u2013 none of whom were ever charged with terrorism \u2013  and reveals stories of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fnation%2Fny-usjust033314646jun03%2C0%2C5549989.story%3Fcoll%3Dny-nationalnews-print\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mistreatment<\/a> \u2013 all unnecessary, all indiscriminate, and altogether unhelpful in bringing a single terrorist to justice.  Most had minor visa violations, but were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edinburghnews.com%2Findex.cfm%3Fid%3D618262003\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">chained<\/a>, detained in solitary confinement, and otherwise treated like violent criminals.  23-hour \u201clockdowns\u201d, isolation from family and lawyers, and 24-hour lighted cells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com%2Fmld%2Fpioneerpress%2F5999479.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">were common<\/a>, even after the FBI had determined some to have no terrorist links.  \u201cWe make no apologies for finding every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fpalmbeach%2Fsfl-padetain03jun03%2C0%2C3954347.story%3Fcoll%3Dsfla-news-palm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">legal way possible<\/a> to protect the American public from further terrorist attacks,\u201d said Justice Department spokeswoman Barbara Comstock.  But the personal stories coming to light in the wake of the report paint a different story.  \u201cI had no contact with anybody outside. I had no idea when I would get out,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com%2Fissues%2F0230%2Flee.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Muhammad Qayyum<\/a>, a grocer who spent seven months in prison. \u201cImmigrants weren\u2019t the enemy,\u201d said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. \u201cBut the war on terror quickly became a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com%2F2003%2FJun%2F06042003%2Futah%2F62844.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">war on immigrants<\/a>.  In retrospect, the only cases of terrorism brought to court since 9\/11 \u2013 the abovementioned Arabs caught with \u201cvacation videos\u201d of Las Vegas, pilot-in-training <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com%2Fnews%2Fcontent%2Fnews%2F0603%2F04moussaoui.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zacarias Moussaoui<\/a>, and homegrown terrorist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com%2F2003%2F0604%2Fp01s02-usju.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eric Rudolph<\/a> \u2013 were caught the old fashioned way: through normal investigative work.  <\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US government report confirms that the post-9\/11 dragnet caused much unnecessary misery to Muslim immigrants without catching terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","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>: Sifting For Terrorists: Lots Of Pain, Little Gain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A US government report confirms that the post-9\/11 dragnet caused much unnecessary misery to Muslim immigrants without catching terrorists.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/06\/sifting_for_terrorists_lots_of_pain_little_gain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": Sifting For Terrorists: Lots Of Pain, Little Gain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A US government report confirms that the post-9\/11 dragnet caused much unnecessary misery to Muslim immigrants without catching terrorists.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/06\/sifting_for_terrorists_lots_of_pain_little_gain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2003-06-04T06:38:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/06\/sifting_for_terrorists_lots_of_pain_little_gain\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/06\/sifting_for_terrorists_lots_of_pain_little_gain\/\",\"name\":\": Sifting For Terrorists: Lots Of Pain, Little Gain\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2003-06-04T06:38:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2003-06-04T06:38:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/0e0efbb645cc461c721083358f82f945\"},\"description\":\"A US government report confirms that the post-9\/11 dragnet caused much unnecessary misery to Muslim immigrants without catching terrorists.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/06\/sifting_for_terrorists_lots_of_pain_little_gain\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/06\/sifting_for_terrorists_lots_of_pain_little_gain\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/06\/sifting_for_terrorists_lots_of_pain_little_gain\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\": Sifting For Terrorists: Lots Of Pain, Little Gain\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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