`J'ACCUSE!' America's Dreyfus Affaire

[Resistance]

by Eric Margolis

WASHINGTON - Hatred of Muslims has become the anti-semitism of our era. The latest example of this ugly fact is the vicious prosecution by the US military of a Muslim Army chaplain, Capt. James Yee.

I call this disgraceful and shameful case, America's Dreyfus Affaire.

Captain Yee, a native of New Jersey, West Point graduate, convert to Islam, and one of the few Muslim chaplains in the US armed forces, was arrested for espionage. Yee had been chaplain at the Bush Administration's very own version of Devil's Island, the notorious Guantanamo prison camp, ministering to the 660 Muslim prisoners held there in cages.

Yee was charged with spying and thrown into solitary confinement in a naval prison for two and a half months where he was reportedly chained hand and foot. Jailers refused to tell him the direction Mecca lay, so he could pray properly. Yee was denied family visits and repeatedly threatened with execution.

Capt. Yee was finally released to face court martial at Ft. Benning, Georgia, which is currently continuing. The military's case against Yee has steadily crumbled. Not a shred of evidence emerged of spying, or of foreign contacts.

[Valjean]

1. Shows you

This just shows you what the assholes in charge will do to generate some news.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Chaplain Yee

is my brother Sufi, and as such I feel the unjustness of what happened to him personally.

[bluesoul]

3. Gee

"Hatred of Muslims has become the anti-semitism of our era"

Don't tell me...