Andres sent me an awful article:
Boston Magazine's Katherine Oxment asked: "Who's afraid of Aafia Siddiqui? She went to MIT and Brandeis, married a (physician, lived in Boston), cared for her children... raised money for charities... did other volunteer work, hosted play groups in her apartment, (is) deeply religious... distribute(d) Korans to inmates in area prisons," and did nothing out of the ordinary. (She) "was a normal woman living a normal American life. Until the FBI called her a terrorist... a high-profile Al Qaeda operative," but we've seen these charges before, and each time they were bogus.
The Abduction, Secret Detention, Torture, and Repeated Raping of Aafia Siddiqui
Post-9/11, the "war on terror" has been a jihad against Islam, the colonizers v. the colonized, or what Edward Said called "the familiar (America, Europe, us) and the strange (the Orient, East, them)." Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is one of its most tragic, aggrieved, and ravaged victims. Her ordeal continues horrifically.
Boston Magazine's Katherine Oxment asked: "Who's afraid of Aafia Siddiqui? She went to MIT and Brandeis, married a (physician, lived in Boston), cared for her children... raised money for charities... did other volunteer work, hosted play groups in her apartment, (is) deeply religious... distribute(d) Korans to inmates in area prisons," and did nothing out of the ordinary. (She) "was a normal woman living a normal American life. Until the FBI called her a terrorist... a high-profile Al Qaeda operative," but we've seen these charges before, and each time they were bogus.
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