Directed Research_4_The Road to Guantanomo
Sunday, July 27th, 2008“…the abuse of prisoners, innocent or not, is not only repugnant in its own right. It also squanders a crucial strategic advantage in the fight against terrorism, namely the moral superiority of liberal democracy to the nihilism and extremism that oppose it.
I continued to research anything and everything that connected to profiling and Islamaphobia. I found this movie that deals with such topics. It’s not a documentary and the majority of the scenes are a reenactment “…which is based on the testimony of three British Muslims captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and held at Guantánamo for more than two years…”
These three men were on their way to a wedding in Pakistan and ended up in Afghanistan on a whim. They wanted to witness what was going on there first hand and to akso participate in humanitarian work.
They were then captured by the Northern Alliance soldiers and accused of being Al Qaeda fighters. They were sent to Guantánamo bay.