{"id":1843,"date":"2003-11-28T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2003-11-28T02:00:50","modified_gmt":"2003-11-28T07:00:50","slug":"much_ado_about_smut_ing_terrorism_charges_dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/11\/much_ado_about_smut_ing_terrorism_charges_dropped\/","title":{"rendered":": Much Ado About Smut&#045;ing: Terrorism Charges Dropped"},"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>After three months of detention on suspicion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Ffamily_comments.php%3Fid%3DP1079_0_16_0_C\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">terror-related<\/a> er\u2026 stuff, James Yee was <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com%2Fhtml%2Flocalnews%2F2001801237_yee26m.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">released from prison<\/a> only to be slapped with unrelated adultery and pornography charges, leaving his family and friends feeling both <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pacificnews.org%2Fnews%2Fview_article.html%3Farticle_id%3D868db9fa70f7049008926a7bc03acc52\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">relief and outrage<\/a>. When Yee was arrested on Sept. 10th, the media-fanned (and leak-motivated) outcry implied the worst \u2013 a sensitive military position abused by a Muslim \u201cfifth column.\u201d Only afterwards was Yee charged with significantly minor offences \u2013 transporting classified material without proper security containers. Now that the classified material happens to be downloaded porn (which would doom scores of other military men), Yee\u2019s many Muslim and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com%2Fhome%2Fnews%2F20031121%2Ffrontpage%2F154653.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chinese-American<\/a> supporters see it as a face-saving gesture by the Army at the expense of law-abiding Muslims in the military. \u201cPorn can be downloaded on a computer without the user even knowing it. How did they come up with these charges?\u201d says Cecilia Chang, president of the Justice for New Americans, who led a coalition of Arab and Asian American groups to free Yee. \u201cI don\u2019t know why the government would pursue these charges, except for the fact that it\u2019s embarrassed by the implosion of charges it originally asserted,\u201d agreed Eugene Fidell, his lead attorney. The charges mirror the after-the-fact sentencing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Fwar_comments.php%3Fid%3DP281_0_14_0_C\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Walker Lindh<\/a> for crimes unrelated to his arrest. The Army seems to agree \u2013 asked whether Yee\u2019s case was still espionage-related, Southern Command spokesman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org%2Fthenews%2Fnewsdesk%2FN25153437.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Raul Duany<\/a> said, \u201cBased on the charges, obviously it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/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>Three months after his arrest on terrorism suspicions, Muslim chaplain James Yee is charged with lesser crimes (including downloading porn), an action many see as spiteful and pointless<\/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-1843","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>: Much Ado About Smut&#045;ing: Terrorism Charges Dropped<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Three months after his arrest on terrorism suspicions, Muslim chaplain James Yee is charged with lesser crimes (including downloading porn), an action many see as spiteful and pointless\" \/>\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\/11\/much_ado_about_smut_ing_terrorism_charges_dropped\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": Much Ado About Smut&#045;ing: Terrorism Charges Dropped\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three months after his arrest on terrorism suspicions, Muslim chaplain James Yee is charged with lesser crimes (including downloading porn), an action many see as spiteful and pointless\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/11\/much_ado_about_smut_ing_terrorism_charges_dropped\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2003-11-28T07:00:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"zahedamanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"zahedamanullah\" \/>\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\/11\/much_ado_about_smut_ing_terrorism_charges_dropped\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/11\/much_ado_about_smut_ing_terrorism_charges_dropped\/\",\"name\":\": Much Ado About Smut&#045;ing: Terrorism Charges Dropped\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2003-11-28T07:00:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2003-11-28T07:00:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/871b6e097b0060bce500f444bd5940ba\"},\"description\":\"Three months after his arrest on terrorism suspicions, Muslim chaplain James Yee is charged with lesser crimes (including downloading porn), an action many see as spiteful and pointless\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/11\/much_ado_about_smut_ing_terrorism_charges_dropped\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/11\/much_ado_about_smut_ing_terrorism_charges_dropped\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/11\/much_ado_about_smut_ing_terrorism_charges_dropped\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\": Much Ado About Smut&#045;ing: Terrorism Charges Dropped\"}]},{\"@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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