A small number of releases of Guantanamo detainees have taken place. The way this is being presented by the Obama administration, and covered in the media, distorts what is really happening, and the whole meaning of Guantanamo. The administration evades the fact that only 8 of the remaining 155 men at Guantanamo were ever charged with a crime, and that certainly the rest should never have been there at Guantanamo in the first place.

Stories emerging from Guantanamo Bay are brutal, violent, and are obscured into darkness - usually never reaching the general public. One such story covered by The New York Times, is of Murat Kurnaz, who was proved innocent by the U.S. after suffering years of torture for the crimes he never committed.

Marking ten years since Guantanamo Bay's opening, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released a report called, “Guantanamo by the Numbers”, describing the cost of running the camp and the treatment of detainees.

Marking ten years since Guantanamo Bay's opening, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released a report called, “Guantanamo by the Numbers”, describing the cost of running the camp and the treatment of detainees.

"It is outrageous and very sad that a representative of the people would partake in an attack against a global faith," said Ahmed Rehab, a spokesman for the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "He could have said, 'a savage ideology' or 'a savage interpretation' or any type of nuance that a politician like himself knows how to do."

I want to thank the Chicago Tribune for their July 8 article which discussed the tragic case of Ronald Kitchen and Marvin Reeves, who spent 20 years in prison for five murders they did not commit after Chicago Police literally beat a false confession out of them.

Join Chicago-area peace groups to take a "Stand Against Torture" and act in solidarity with others nation-wide protesting the 5 year anniversary of the first prisoners being brought to Guantanamo Bay.

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/22/05) - CAIR said today that more than 20,000 people have requested free copies of the Quran since the launch of its “Explore the Quran” campaign earlier this year, and more requests are coming in daily.

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/11/05) - CAIR is urging American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact the White House in support of a public investigation into reports that interrogators at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay flushed a Quran down a toilet.