Two years ago, the political left used a Muslim man denied entry to the U.S. because he was on the government’s no-fly list as proof that Islamophobia is rampant in the nation. Earlier this month, he was arrested along the Turkey-Syria border on suspicion of working with ISIS terrorists.
Saadiq Long’s trouble flying to his native Oklahoma from Qatar to visit his ailing mother stirred international controversy after journalist Glenn Greenwald told of the African-American Muslim’s treatment in The Guardian.
Greenwald reported in 2013:
The day before he was to travel, a KLM representative called Long and informed him that the airlines could not allow him to board the flight. That, she explained, was because the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had placed Long on its “no-fly list”, which bars him from flying into his own country.
Long has now spent the last six months trying to find out why he was placed on this list and what he can do to get off of it. He has had no success, unable to obtain even the most basic information about what caused his own government to deprive him of this right to travel.
He has no idea when he was put on this list, who decided to put him on it, or the reasons for his inclusion. He has never been convicted of any crime, never been indicted or charged with a crime, and until he was less than 24 hours away from boarding that KLM flight back to his childhood home, had received no notice that his own government prohibited him from flying.
As his mother’s health declines, he remains effectively barred from returning to see her. “My mother is much too sick to come visit me, as she has difficulty now even walking very short distances,” Long told me in an interview Sunday in Doha, the sleek, booming capital city of America’s close Gulf ally, where the former Senior Airman and Staff Sergeant has lived for several years.
Long was “effectively exiled from his own country,” Greenwald said, only because he’s a Muslim.
Talking heads on the left told anyone who would listen that Long is the perfect example of how institutional Islamophobia is a major problem in the U.S.
Long, a U.S. citizen an Air Force veteran, enlisted the help of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). After several months, CAIR was able to get long removed temporarily from the no-fly list and was allowed to return to Oklahoma.
But later when he tried to return to Qatar, Long found that he had again been placed on the no-fly list. CAIR and the liberal media were “shocked” and “outraged” that Islamophobia had seemingly prevailed in Long’s case.
Long eventually returned to Qatar after taking a bus to Mexico and boarding an outbound flight from that country.
Now, thanks to a report from PJ Media, Long is back in the headlines after being arrested as a terror suspect:
A man, who just two years ago was the poster boy for the far-Left media’s attacks against the U.S. government’s no-fly list for “unfairly” targeting Muslims, finds himself and several family members sitting in a Turkish prison — arrested earlier this month near the Turkey-Syria border as members of an ISIS cell.
Later, The Daily Caller reported:
The Daily Caller was able to confirm that Long, his wife, and their daughter were detained in Turkey. A family relative told TheDC that the U.S. embassy in Ankara had confirmed the arrest but did not provide additional details. The relative said that an attorney is working on getting in touch with Long but claims that the Turkish immigration office is currently denying access.
CAIR has yet to respond to requests for comments from multiple media outlets.
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