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"Even today, as I sit in my jail cell, I read about the drone strikes which continue to kill Muslims daily in places like Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen. Just last month, we all heard about the seventeen Afghan Muslims -- mostly mothers and their kids -- shot to death by an American soldier, who also set fire to their corpses."
I mentioned Paul Revere -- when he went on his midnight ride, it was for the purpose of warning the people that the British were marching to Lexington to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock, then on to Concord to confiscate the weapons stored there by the Minuteman." "
By the time they got to Concord, they found the Minuteman waiting for them, weapons in hand. They fired at the British, fought them, and beat them. From that battle came the American Revolution. There's an Arabic word to describe what those Minutemen did that day. That word is: JIHAD, and this is what my trial was about."
"All those videos and translations and childish bickering over "Oh, he translated this paragraph' and "Oh, he edited that sentence,' and all those exhibits revolved around a single issue: Muslims who were defending themselves against American soldiers doing to them exactly what the British did to America."
"It was made crystal clear at trial that I never, ever plotted to 'kill Americans' at shopping malls or whatever the story was. The government's own witnesses contradicted this claim, and we put expert after expert up on that stand, who spent hours dissecting my every written word, who explained my beliefs."
"Further, when I was free, the government sent an undercover agent to prod me into one of their little 'terror plots,' but I refused to participate. Mysteriously, however, the jury never heard this."
A Final Comment
Tarek reflects the best of what America should be, but never was and isn't now. He'll suffer in prison. So do thousands of others wrongfully convicted. America's gulag is notorious. It's the world's largest by far.
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