Document Type
Article
Publication
Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems
Year
2012
Citation Information
Wadie E. Said, The Message and Means of the Modern Terrorism Prosecution, 21 TRANSNAT'L L. & CONTEMP. PROBS. 175 (2012), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/1885.
Abstract
This Article, written in conjunction with Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems' 2011 Symposium on Ten Years After 9/11: Rethinking Counterterrorism, stemmed from a panel that examined "how the United States and other Western countries receive Islamic culture in their societies and how they export their Western cultures to the Islamic world, in each case to assess the degree to which their cross-cultural behaviors mitigate or worsen anti-Western terrorism from the Middle East and Central/South Asia and to recommend solutions if needed."' This contribution focuses on the criminal terrorism prosecution in the United States, and takes up the panel's theme by examining what such prosecutions say about American attitudes toward Islam. In so doing, my goal is to analyze how allegations of terrorism-more often than not Islamic terrorism-generate investigations, prosecutions, and rulings that demonstrate a great deal of deference to the government's role as counterterrorist actor, all the while revealing official U.S. attitudes toward Islam to be conflicted.
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