Elibiary (cont’d): Staking out that middle-of-the-road position that would satisfy all of the government’s legitimate security concerns aboutMuslim Brotherhood-associated networks providing material support toterrorism and the organized Muslim community maintaining certainnonprofits and their civic engagement capabilities, naturally was not acceptable to absolutists at both ends of the spectrum.
There were those voices in the Muslim community who wondered if Imight be a sellout because I wouldn’t join the HLF’s Hungry for JusticeCoalition and instead staked out an independent public messaging linein the media. Similarly, there were voices in the anti-Islamist advocacycommunity, including their law enforcement and media allies, who frankly continue to see that, because I won’t accept the marginalizationand eventual indictment of the HLF unindicted co-conspirator community organizations, that I can’t be fully trusted in a post-9/11 Global War on Terror.
Naturally, I have been happy to see, by and large, the United States government arrive at a similar endpoint as I staked out a decade ago in Dallas. As has been reported in multiple conservative media outlets over the past few years, the long-desired HLF 2.0 trial for the unindicted coconspirators is no longer going to happen.
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