{"id":766,"date":"2011-06-01T11:26:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T15:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=766"},"modified":"2011-06-01T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T18:48:02","slug":"no-justice-for-jailed-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/06\/no-justice-for-jailed-muslims.html","title":{"rendered":"No Justice for Jailed Muslims?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/05\/may-flashback-san-francisco-to-vote-on-circumcision-bishop-eddie-long-settles-more.html\">John Walker Lindh<\/a>, the imprisoned &#8220;American Taliban&#8221; whose father&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/22\/opinion\/22lindh.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">New York Times op-ed plea<\/a> for his release (now that Osama bin Laden is dead) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/26\/opinion\/l26lindh.html\" target=\"_blank\">prompted a new wave of debate<\/a> over how suspected terrorists should be treated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Justice\/2011\/0531\/Supreme-Court-US-Muslim-cannot-sue-Ashcroft-for-2003-detention-ordeal\">Supreme Court: US Muslim cannot sue Ashcroft for 2003 detention ordeal<\/a> (The Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5ii1PnSh2HWuVOWrpEJodEyj78Hgw?docId=0d6926703b9d42a39ed4dcd8d9186ca8\">High court rules out damage claim against Ashcroft <\/a>(Associated Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the AP&#8217;s story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Born in Kansas, Al-Kidd is a former University of Idaho football star who now  teaches English to college students in Saudi Arabia. He was headed to Saudi  Arabia on a scholarship in 2003 when federal agents arrested him at  Washington-Dulles International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The sworn statement the FBI submitted to justify the <strong>warrant had important  errors and omissions<\/strong>. The $5,000 one-way, first-class seat that the agents said  al-Kidd purchased was, in reality, a coach-class, round-trip ticket. The  statement neglected to mention that al-Kidd had been cooperative or that he was  a U.S. citizen with a wife and children who also were American.<\/p>\n<p>After the arrest, he was held for 16 days, during which he was <strong>strip-searched  repeatedly, left naked in a jail cell and shower for more than 90 minutes in  view of men and women,<\/strong> routinely transported in handcuffs and leg irons, and  kept with people who had been convicted of violent crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Even after Tuesday&#8217;s ruling, al-Kidd still has claims pending against the FBI  agents who obtained the material witness warrant used to arrest him. Al-Kidd has  separately reached settlements with Virginia, Oklahoma and Idaho jail officials  over his treatment. A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled the strip searches al-Kidd  endured at the federal jail in Oklahoma City &#8220;were objectively unreasonable and  violated the Fourth Amendment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Horrifying? Then again, I guess we could be Egypt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/meast\/05\/30\/egypt.virginity.tests\/index.html\">Egyptian general admits &#8216;virginity checks&#8217; conducted on protesters<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/06\/ghosts-in-the-egyptian-virginity-tests\/\">Ghosts in the Egyptian virginity tests<\/a> (GetReligion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? 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