Rahinah Ibrahim Wins No-Fly List Ruling: Muslim Woman Contests Controversial Program

[friendly_iconoclast]

Source: Huffington Post

(RNS) A Muslim woman now living in Malaysia struck a blow to the U.S. government’s “no-fly list” when a federal judge ruled Tuesday (Jan. 14) that the government violated her due process rights by putting her on the list without telling her why.

Muslims and civil rights advocates say the no-fly list disproportionately targets Muslims, and they hope the ruling will force the government to become more transparent about the highly secretive program.

“Justice has finally been done for an innocent woman who was wrongly ensnared in the government’s flawed watch listing system,” Elizabeth Pipkin, a lawyer representing Rahinah Ibrahim, said in a statement.

Ibrahim, 48, a mother of four with a doctorate from Stanford University, was waiting to board a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii en route to Malaysia in 2005 but was told she was on the no-fly list. She was eventually cleared to fly to Malaysia, but her visa was revoked soon afterward and she could not return to Stanford. She was never told why she was put on the list, and in 2006 she sued the government to find out.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/rahinah-ibrahim-no-fly-list_n_4612076.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

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Good. Brazil was supposed to be satire, not a manual for statecraft...

[msanthrope]

1. I think anyone on the no-fly should get the due process of a hearing. nt

[MADem]

2. So, now she'll be moved to the "Let's Fuck Wit' Ya, Constantly" list!

I spent the bulk of the Bush administration on that list--they mess with you, they toss yer bag, they make sure you have to sit there and repack your bags in front of everyone, it's a ton of fun.

I started shipping my bag ahead because I didn't wanna deal with it. I would show up to get on the plane with a wallet....sometimes a newspaper. No other "accoutrements" at all. Well, a coat in cold weather.

When they asked why, I told 'em.