Police state: This is alarming, dangerous and stupid:
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thabet
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thabet
I don’t think is any point in offering a detailed review to Undercover Mosque: The Return as such, but the documentary raises some points that have been discussed in the past on this blog.
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koonj
Academics protest jailing of 28-year old Muslim student, Syed Fahad Hashmi, graduate of City University of New York’s Brooklyn College. Jeanne Theoharis, an associate professor of political science, recalls that Hashmi took great interest in civil liberties post-9/11, and she has started a campaign to “Free Fahad.” Al-Muhajiroun and al-Qaeda are named in the case, as is Junaid Babar, whose testimony appears to form much of the case against Hashmi.
Allie Grasgreen writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education:
“Ms. Theoharis and others who call for Mr. Hashmi’s release say that his arrest was politically motivated. They point out that he has no prior criminal history (Mr. Bergen, the CNN analyst, deemed that point irrelevant) and they say that because the government informant upon whom much of the case against Mr. Hashmi is built has served as a witness in multiple cases in exchange for a reduced prison sentence, the validity of that testimony is diminished.
“Mr. Robin sees his former student’s ordeal as a concrete example of topics they discussed in class together, such as the effect of the Patriot Act and how the political climate has changed following the September 11 attacks.”
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aziz
The War on 4: now the government can confiscate your laptop at will when you fly into the US.
If you are traveling abroad, you are advised to travel with a cheap laptop with minimal file storage, like an Asus EEE. Keep all your data files off the laptop, put them on a pocket USB drive, or store them online and sync your data with a utility like Foldershare. Time to up the paranoia level.
