Monday, October 31, 2011
feministrobot: [Trigger Warning: linked article has descriptions of sexual assault.] pushinghoopswithsticks: “We both realized they had been trying to set us up. So they didn’t have anything on us. They came for her early in the morning, too. They didn’t detain her parents, they just detained her. Tashnuba and I were then trying to figure out what was going on, what they were going to do, if they were going to release us.That’s when a lady walked in. She said, “What are you guys in for? We said, “We don’t know.” “I hear you guys did something.” “What did we do?” We were asking her for information. She said, “We’re going to take you to Pennsylvania.Tashnuba and I looked at each other, like, Pennsylvania? I said, “What are we goingto do in Pennsylvania? She answered, “They didn’t tell you? There’s a detention center there.” Click the photo to read the rest of one 16 year old’s harrowing account of being, in effect kidnapped, and detained for months by FBI agents with no cause, no explanation and no legal recourse. Excerpted from Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Justice 

feministrobot:

[Trigger Warning: linked article has descriptions of sexual assault.]

pushinghoopswithsticks:

“We both realized they had been trying to set us up. So they didn’t have anything on us. They came for her early in the morning, too. They didn’t detain her parents, they just detained her. Tashnuba and I were then trying to figure out what was going on, what they were going to do, if they were going to release us.That’s when a lady walked in. She said, “What are you guys in for? We said, “We don’t know.” “I hear you guys did something.” “What did we do?” We were asking her for information. She said, “We’re going to take you to Pennsylvania.Tashnuba and I looked at each other, like, Pennsylvania? I said, “What are we goingto do in Pennsylvania? She answered, “They didn’t tell you? There’s a detention center there.”

Click the photo to read the rest of one 16 year old’s harrowing account of being, in effect kidnapped, and detained for months by FBI agents with no cause, no explanation and no legal recourse. Excerpted from Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Justice 

Posted at 10:42 PM 218 notes Reblogged from feministrobot-deactivated201203 Tags: racism anti-muslim bigotry sexual abuse sexual assault rape culture misogyny muslim feminism muslims feminism

Notes

  1. hobokenhobo reblogged this from robot-heart-politics
  2. ihavethisblog reblogged this from haralambros
  3. girlinacarelessworld reblogged this from pushinghoopswithsticks and added:
    Thats my sister! :)
  4. awkward-poo reblogged this from sukoon
  5. imgoodbro reblogged this from badassmuslimahs and added:
    HAHA! SISTER ADAMA! MY TEACHER!!!
  6. kajal reblogged this from better-than-yesterday
  7. mangosheen reblogged this from badassmuslimahs
  8. tectonicmind reblogged this from badassmuslimahs
  9. bossestbitch reblogged this from thechocolatebrigade
  10. decembercat reblogged this from thecuntmentality
  11. pauleanback reblogged this from thechocolatebrigade
  12. isabelisweird reblogged this from thechocolatebrigade and added:
    I said, “I can’t do this. I can’t.” I was in tears. My own mother doesn’t look at me naked. It’s my privacy. I said, “It...
  13. ttakenoprisonerss reblogged this from thechocolatebrigade
  14. numbskullmischief reblogged this from thechocolatebrigade
  15. sleepy-tea reblogged this from thechocolatebrigade
  16. thechocolatebrigade reblogged this from thecuntmentality
  17. cantseewhy reblogged this from heisenbergsays
  18. battledress reblogged this from heisenbergsays
  19. heisenbergsays reblogged this from philtippett
  20. dandelionchild reblogged this from cephalopodqueen