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July 29 Author @ the Library presents Mohamed's Ghosts with Stephan Salisbury
A Philadelphia Inquirer reporter tells the story of Mohamed Ghorab, an imam in Philadelphia who was arrested and detained by federal agents and eventually deported and separated from his family. Members of Ghorab’s congregation were arrested, interrogated and watched, and many would be deported. This lecture chronicles the demolition of lives and families, the spread of anti-immigrant hysteria, and its manipulation by the government.
Salisbury will talk about the proliferation of undercover police and informers in prosecuting the war on terror and how this led to the destruction of a Philadelphia mosque and many people connected to it. He will also touch on the demise of that mosque—collateral damage in the on-going war—which foreshadowed the growing anti-Islamic hysteria in New York, Tennessee, Arizona, California and elsewhere across the country, with attendant attacks on mosques real and planned. Mid-Manhattan Library For more information, please click here. |
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