{"id":2326,"date":"2006-02-26T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2006-02-26T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T23:54:00","slug":"why_is_halliburton_building_internment_camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2006\/02\/why_is_halliburton_building_internment_camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims in the US: Why is Halliburton building internment camps?"},"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\/muslim_internment.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\">Uh oh<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>On January 24th it was <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com%2Fbw%2F060124%2F20060124005819.html%3F.v%3D1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> that a subsidiary of Halliburton KBR was awarded a $385 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention centers in the US.  These centers might be used for immigration, or for disaster relief, or vaguely \u201c\u2026to support the rapid development of new programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As early as September of 2002, John Ashcroft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com%2F090402camps.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">discussed internment<\/a>, even of American citizens who were deemed \u201cenemy combatants\u201d and Peter Kirsanow of the US Civil Rights Commission said that he \u201ccould foresee a scenario in which the public would demand internment camps for Arab Americans if Arab terrorists strike again in this country.\u201d If there\u2019s a future terrorist attack in America \u201cand they come from the same ethnic group that attacked the World Trade Center, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com%2Frights_panelist_forsees_internment_push.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">forget<\/a> about civil rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9\/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocnus.net%2Fartman%2Fpublish%2Farticle_22660.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">says<\/a> Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, the US military\u2019s account of its activities in Vietnam. \u201cThey\u2019ve already done this on a smaller scale, with the \ufffdspecial registration\u2019 detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now we are beginning to see this mentioned by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnn.tv%2Fheadlines%2F7254%2FHomeland_Security_To_Build_Detention_Camps_In_The_United_States\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">number<\/a> of sources (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com%2Fglogin%3FURI%3Dhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com%2F2006%2F02%2F04%2Fnational%2F04halliburton.html%26OQ%3D_rQ3D1%26OP%3D7800799cQ2FQ25PQ2AQ23Q25_Q2BHQ5EeQ2BQ2BxyQ25y%2C%2CQ7EQ25%2CyQ25%2CQ27Q25oaxmQ2BoaQ60Q25%2CQ27Q3EaQ60Q60mQ23Q5DexQ2Bo6Q3ExgQ60\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstelegram.com%2Fsearch%2Fci_3470080\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ncmonline.com%2Fnews%2Fview_article.html%3Farticle_id%3Dde9dd9fbbbbd59388d802c3f4e0e1288\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/vivirlatino.com%2F2006%2F02%2F07%2Fdetention-centers-by-any-other-name.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca%2Findex.php%3Fcontext%3DviewArticle%26code%3D%2520SC20060206%26articleId%3D1897\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">5<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com%2Ffarrell%2F06%2F02%2Ffar06003.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">6<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRex_84\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">7<\/a>), but it is still not front page news, although it is not only Muslims and Arabs who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcommentator.com%2F171%2F171_freedom_rider_halliburton_detention_centers.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">concerned<\/a> about what sort of emergency might require detention centers. And what are these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com%2F2006%2F022106a.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mysterious<\/a> \u201cnew <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pacificnews.org%2Fnews%2Fview_article.html%3Farticle_id%3D9c2d6a5e75201d7e3936ddc65cdd56a9\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">programs<\/a>\u201c?<\/p>\n<p>I believe that all Americans should be very concerned.  It might be \u201csomeone else\u201d they come for first, but if this is the direction our nation is going, who knows where it will end.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sheila Musaji is editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmuslim.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The American Muslim<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody is talking much about it, but moves have been made to develop a network of detention centers in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Muslims in the US: Why is Halliburton building internment camps?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nobody is talking much about it, but moves have been made to develop a network of detention centers in the US.\" \/>\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\/2006\/02\/why_is_halliburton_building_internment_camps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Muslims in the US: Why is Halliburton building internment camps?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nobody is talking much about it, but moves have been made to develop a network of detention centers in the US.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2006\/02\/why_is_halliburton_building_internment_camps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-02-26T23:54:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/muslim_internment.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Guest Contributor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Guest Contributor\" \/>\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\/2006\/02\/why_is_halliburton_building_internment_camps\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2006\/02\/why_is_halliburton_building_internment_camps\/\",\"name\":\"Muslims in the US: Why is Halliburton building internment camps?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2006-02-26T23:54:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2006-02-26T23:54:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/2869b699bf0e57982cb1f212243705f2\"},\"description\":\"Nobody is talking much about it, but moves have been made to develop a network of detention centers in the US.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2006\/02\/why_is_halliburton_building_internment_camps\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2006\/02\/why_is_halliburton_building_internment_camps\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2006\/02\/why_is_halliburton_building_internment_camps\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Muslims in the US: Why is Halliburton building internment camps?\"}]},{\"@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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