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Jan 04, 2011, 09:12 AM
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Member Since: Jun 2007
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 5,518
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I agree Lonegael. It was only a matter of a couple of days before the people around here became hungry for revenge and headed over to the local mosque. They used their American flags as "torches" to intimidate our Muslim community.
One of my Palestinian neighbors was rounded up under suspicion of being a "terrorist" because he collected food and clothing to send to his friends and family in need. It was merely for charity. They couldn't get anything out of him, so they sent him to Israel for interrogation.
He was brutally tortured daily for several years but yielded no results. They sent him back to the U.S. for more "enhanced" interrogation. Between the two countries, they tried every trick in the book to get him to confess to being a "terrorist."
After all those years, he finally had his day in court - NOT GUILTY! I knew this all along because I used to help him care for his family when I worked for a pediatrician. He would often bring in his nieces and nephews in for their appointments when their mothers were unavailable. He was a very good, kind, and caring man - and he loved his family dearly. I could tell because I could see it in the faces of his nieces and nephews. I could hear it in his wife's voice. They loved him as much as I loved my father, and as much as I love my husband.
It breaks my heart to think of the torture that innocent man had to endure in order to satisfy my community's hunger for revenge. It resolves nothing. It only heightens the pain and fear, and causes it to ripple. 
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