A man who in 2013 became the face of a movement to portray the U.S. government’s no-fly list as discriminatory against Muslims was arrested earlier this month along with members of his family in Turkey for being part of an Islamic State cell, according to an article from PJ Media.
Saadiq Long’s view of the governmental policy was widely promoted by certain elements of the media, including Chris Hayes of MSNBC and Mother Jones, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations legally represented him while helping to spread his message.
In April 2012, Long wished to travel from Qatar, where he lived at the time, to visit his sick mother in his native Oklahoma. Long was unable to make the trip, though, because he was on the TSA’s no-fly list, a case which CAIR said “represented institutional ‘Islamophobia.’”
The PJ Media article describes how the story got international attention after CAIR’s public relations push and because of a piece published by Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian. Other commentators like Kevin Drum also lambasted the no-fly list in Mother Jones.
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The "No Fly" list is, generally speaking, common sense. We don't stop all Muslims, just the ones that have participated in suspicious activities. Looks like the concern was well founded in this case. He would probably have done more good for ISIS if he could have kept his nose clean!
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