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Purpose of Project SALAM
This web site is devoted to researching and documenting the likelihood that the United States Justice Department’s post-9/11 terrorism-related prosecutions and convictions have included a significant number of Muslims who were in fact innocent of any crime. Other cases were severely overcharged and/or over sentenced. Read more . . .
Would you like to volunteer? Email Lynne Jackson at lynnejackson@mac.com
Muslim Solidarity Handbook Published
The Muslim Solidarity Committee in Albany, New York (supporting Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain) has now become the local “chapter” of Project SALAM. But the committee was founded in October 2006, and Project SALAM grew directly out of the committee’s four-year advocacy for Aref and Hossain. Here is a history of the Muslim Solidarity Committee, written for the United National Peace Conference in Albany on July 23–25, 2010, in the form of a downloadable booklet. Read about who we are, why we began, the background of the Aref-Hossain case, other Muslim prosecutions in Albany, and the committee’s activities year by year––and use it as a handbook for Muslim justice in your own community.
Victims of Preemptive Prosecution
After 9/11, fear of terrorism caused Americans to deviate from the equal application of the law for all Americans, and launched a wave of US government retaliation against Muslims in America that bore no connection to any individual guilty. This is most easily seen in the US government’s Preemptive Prosecution program, in which innocent Muslims are prosecuted for some contrived crime, based on their character or “ideology” ostensibly to “preempt” them from possibly becoming involved in terrorism at some future time. Read more . . .
Register for the National Peace Conference, from July 23-25, Crowne Plaza in Albany, New York
Project SALAM will have a workshop on Defending Muslim Political Prisoners. Everyone is welcome to attend. It is time to connect the issues of the war overseas to the preemptive prosecution of Muslims.
Rally and March In Support of
Muslims Targeted by
Preemptive Prosecution
Sunday, July 25, 2010, 1:00 PM
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Meet at the West S. Swan Street steps of the Capitol, S. Swan Street and Washington Avenue at 1:00 PM
(Please note change of rally site!)
March to Masjid As-Salam, 278 Central Ave., Albany
Aref & Hossain • Fort Dix 5 • Newburgh 4 • Betim Kaziu • Ziyad Yaghi • Dr. Rafil Dhafir • Fahad Hashmi • Tarek Mehanna • Tariq Shah • & Many More
Rally for Justice for The Newburgh Four
Wednesday, July 21st, 1:00-2:00 P.M.
Stop FBI Entrappment!
Support the Newburgh 4!
This action has a permit and is endorsed by WESPAC Foundation, Project Salam, the Peace and Justice Foundation, the Newburgh Four Support Commit-tee, DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving, Middle Eastern Law Student's Associa-tion at CUNY Law School, Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal NYC, Masjid Al-TawheedA Peekskill, Al-Awda NY and World Can't Wait.
Bail Denied to the Newburgh 4
The Albany City Council Passes the Resolution Asking for Justice for Muslims!
Read reports on this historic report and watch a video of the event.
On Monday, April 5, the Albany, NY City Council passed a resolution entitled: "RESOLUTION URGING THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO REVIEW THE CONVICTIONS OF MUSLIMS WHO WERE “PREEMPTIVELY PROSECUTED” TO ENSURE THEIR FAIR TREATMENT UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS"
Preemptive Prosecution Case Summaries
ReadProject SALAM's newest analysis of preemptive prosecution
Preemptive Prosecution Amicus Brief
Project SALAM asked for permission to file the first Amicus (Friend of the Court) brief in the case of Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain, Muslims entrapped by the FBI in Albany, New York. Click here to read the papers Project SALAM filed.
See the new review of Rounded Up featured on Truthout.org.
Click here to sign
Seventh Letter to President Obama and
Attorney General Eric Holder
(Please note: the petition is hosted by iPetitions.
No donation is necessary to sign the petition)
Please sign the seventh letter to President Obama and Attorney General Holder. This letter requests that the Justice Department deal with the serious issues of misconduct and illegal behavior in which the Justice Department has been engaged, including the failure of the Office of Professional Responsibility to discipline lawyers such as Yoo, Bybee, and Bradbury who committed serious professional misconduct in authorizing torture, and the Offices failure to discipline lawyers who fail to disclose exculpatory information (the Stevens case).
Also discussed is the failure of the Department of Justice to take appropriate action in the cases of the CIA Agents convicted in Italy; the failure to turn over exculpatory information in the Samueli and Ruehle cases; the dismissal of charges in the Blackwater prosecution; the “loss” of 22 million emails from the White House; the cover-up of prisoner murders at Guantanamo; the manufacturing of emergencies to by-pass warrant requirements; the continuing torture program of the Obama Administration; the killing of Imam Luquman Ameen Abdullah, and the implementation of the Total Information Awareness system in violation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Please add your signature as well. The truth is coming out about how the Bush Administration broke the law, lied about it, and covered it up on a massive scale. We know that justice was twisted and that innocent Muslim were convicted as a result. Soon the whole world will know. Please be part of this effort to force the Obama Administration to address the injustices that stain our nation's honor.
Lynne Jackson visited the families of the Fort Dix 5 on April 23. Click here to read about the Fort Dix 5 and the terrible miscarriage of justice. The five men are to be sentenced on April 27 and April 28, 2009.