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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (9610)	7/31/2005 6:06:53 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 32591

Toronto Muslim clerics want apology from U.S. Last Updated Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:50:42 cbc.ca TORONTO - Two Muslim clerics from Toronto want the United States to apologize for holding them in Florida on Thursday – the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. And the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC) was so offended by the treatment of the two men that it is advising Muslims not to travel to the United States. "You get a feeling that in the United States any Muslim is fair game," said Tarek Fatah, a founder of the MCC. Ahmad Kutty and Abdul Hamid were flying to Orlando when they were arrested during a stopover in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday. The men were interrogated for 16 hours and kept in jail until Friday, when they returned to Toronto. FROM SEPT. 12, 2003: Toronto men arrested while flying to Florida U.S. officials said the men were a security concern. Hamid said a FBI officer told him that his name "sounded similar to the names of some people on the list of suspects." The two scholars oppose Islamic extremism, and were on their way to give sermons at a Muslim meeting in Florida. Kutty "is one of the gentlest souls in the Muslim community," said Fatah. Now the two have taken the most American of actions – they've got a lawyer. "This is America, where there are laws and there are procedures. And we're going to follow those. We're going to hold people accountable," said lawyer Khurrum Wahid. The men want an apology and they may yet ask the Canadian government to lodge a formal complaint.