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MSNBC’s ‘No-Fly List Is Islamophobia’ poster boy arrested as part of ISIS cell

Nov 23, 2015 10:20 pm By Robert Spencer

Will Hamas-linked CAIR apologize? Will Chris Hayes and MSNBC? Will Glenn Greenwald? No, none of them will, and no media outlet will call them out on it, either. If the mainstream media acknowledges this at all, it will claim that the “Islamophobia” to which Long was supposedly subjected ended up “radicalizing” him.

“MSNBC’s ‘No-Fly List Is Islamophobia’ Poster Boy Arrested in Turkey as Part of ISIS Cell,” by Patrick Poole, PJ Media, November 24, 2015:

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….

After an incident with local police and the FBI, Long was apparently placed back on the no-fly list, preventing his return to Qatar.

That prompted even more outrage from the far-Left media and garnered him an appearance with his CAIR handler on Chris Hayes’ MSNBC show…

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", American jihadis, CAIR, claiming victim status, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), journalistic bias Tagged With: Chris Hayes, Glenn Greenwald, MSNBC, Saadiq Long


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  1. Wellington says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 10:56 pm

    Want to know what the truth really is? Well, find out what Chris Hayes thinks is the truth, conclude exactly the opposite and you have a 99% chance of being aligned with the truth. Yeah, he’s this bad——–as here.

    • gonzales27 says

      Nov 24, 2015 at 10:58 am

      Looks the same thing that’s wrong with Obama

  2. gravenimage says

    Nov 23, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    MSNBC’s ‘No-Fly List Is Islamophobia’ poster boy arrested as part of ISIS cell
    ……………………

    I’d say you can’t make this sh*t up, but the fact is that poster boys for “moderate” Muslims have actually turned out to be Jihadists many times. Shockers!

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 12:25 am

    Self-righteous, Leftarded ignoramuses who have never read an Islamic source text and wouldn’t know the names of them. And yet they present themselves as experts on Islam…thinking they know MUCH MORE than those who have actually read the Islamic sources!

    They are presumptuous and self-blinded to the JIHAD DOCTRINE. These blind Oedopuses lead the other self-blinded, Leftarded cultural Marxists.

    For Chris Hayes, Glenn Greenwald, and Mother Jones, intellectual sloth is a virtue protecting their self-righteous Utopia. They defend jihad violence from criticism and critical examination.

    • Wellington says

      Nov 24, 2015 at 1:05 am

      Agreed, mortimer.

    • duh_swami says

      Nov 24, 2015 at 9:06 am

      The4 people with no book know more about ‘it’ than you do. Trey don’t need a book, they have ‘divine’ liberal logic’…Listening to some Republican candida I see thy are using the same logic…Most of them have a clue, but thatch all they have. There rest is flight of fancy…They better get over those Islam-delusions,, and get real,,,That’s you Donald…crack some books or read Jihadwatch…
      ‘

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 8:38 am

    The alignment of the left with the Moslems is a natural. The globo-socialists love victims, and they foolishly playing these hairy people as the latest in a long line of gambits involving non-whites. Trouble is, this time they’re playing with sticks of dynamite.

    On the other hand, there is no other hand. The putative conservative TV channels Fox RINO and Fox Buiness RINO thus far are sticking to their guns, that the whole thing is a perversion of the true Islam. All this is done without ever once mentioning that the scriptures call for exactly what’s happening, a global terror campaign to take over the world. Even Trump is carefully dancing along that line, never indicting the whole belief system, never mentioning its scriptures. So a magazine of high caliber bullets is left on the table, meanwhile the public is quite nervous, suspecting they’ve been sold a bill of goods. Brussels is shut down, there’s a worldwide travel advisory, there is a log more to come, no end in sight… yet still no mention of the scriptures, what is prayed every Friday.

  5. Angemon says

    Nov 24, 2015 at 12:44 pm

    MSNBC’s ‘No-Fly List Is Islamophobia’ Poster Boy Arrested in Turkey as Part of ISIS Cell

    Betcha two things:

    1 – He was affiliated with “extremists” before being the alleged face of the alleged institutional islamophobia..

    2 – He’ll deny the above and claim he fell prey to slick artists because of the “disenfranchisement” he felt from US authorities.

    • ? says

      Nov 24, 2015 at 10:00 pm

      I’ll raise you $50 on it…

  6. sooz22 says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 2:36 am

    I know nothing about body language, but can someone tell my why this guy does not look directly into the camera when he responds to a question? He keeps his eyes down. Is he lying? Is he hiding something? Just askin’.

  7. max blancke says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    I was thinking about this, in reference to clock boy. If he just disappears, it will be because the Islamophobes broke his creative spirit. If he turns out to be a great statesman, it will be because he triumphed over Islamophobia. If he becomes a terrorist, it will only be a natural response to the Islamophobia he has faced. I think the same goes with our pal in this article. He only joined the Jihadis because of the Islamophobes.
    None of this has any thing to do with reality. These are just arguments constructed to support a political position. To many people, politics are more important than truth.

  8. Manuel Franco says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 10:59 am

    If he’s a muslim then he shouldn’t be allowed to enter US soil, period. And what exactly was he doing in Quatar… Besides obv getting arrested for being an allegded terrorist! I’m just saying; two years is a long time, and he could’ve been made more polarized and fanatical; just to return for the final step of the operation. Anyway, to allow entry to all muslims unchecked seems to be ruse of this whole thing…

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