US Muslim Saadiq Long made headlines after he was not allowed to fly to Oklahoma from Qatar to see his ailing mother.
Saadiq was on the terror watch list and was not allowed into the country. The left lashed out at government officials arguing that Saadiq was a victim of “Islamophobia.”
Saadiq was arrested earlier this month with his family members trying to get into Syria from Turkey to join ISIS.
Will CAIR rally around Saadiq now?
CAIR officials greeted Saadiq Long when he arrived in Oklahoma from Qatar.
Hat Tip Dana Loesch
PJ Media reported:
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.
It’s a long way from 2013 when Saadiq Long’s cause was being championed by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Glenn Greenwald, and Mother Jones, and was being represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) terror front.
His story got considerable media attention when his CAIR media representatives here pushed the story that Long wanted to return to his native Oklahoma from his current home in Qatar to visit his ailing mother but couldn’t because he was on the TSA’s no-fly list. They said his case represented institutional “Islamophobia.”
Long’s cause got international attention when Glenn Greenwald published an article at The Guardian saying that Long was “effectively exiled from his own country.” Kevin Drum of Mother Jones branded it the “Kafkaesque World of the No-Fly List.” CAIR has 22 article entries related to Long’s case on its website.
After several months of wrangling between his CAIR attorneys and the Department of Homeland Security, Long was temporarily removed from the no-fly list and allowed to return to Oklahoma.
Hey @CAIRNational, any comment on your good friend Saadiq Long being caught in an ISIS cell in Turkey? https://t.co/PiAgPASskw
— Lump (@laurww) November 24, 2015