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Dear Producer of
CNN
On December 27, 2002 CNN aired an extensive program on the case of
Saadedin Ibrahim. I can understand that CNN supports Ibrahim because he is
a supporter of American-style democracy. However, the claim that he is
Egypt's
leading dissident is preposterous. He does not speak to or for
the Egyptian people and has no relevance to the aspirations of the
Egyptian people. You wasted your air time by giving him an entire half hour
segment.
Egypt's top dissident is
Shaikh Omar Abdel Rahman,
scholar of
Qur'an
and
Hadith,
teacher of Jihad, Ph.D from Al-Azhar university. He is
imprisoned in a sound proof cell in Florence, Colorado, cut off from friends,
relatives, journalists and the
Muslim
comunity. Even his attorney has been framed.
The Shaikh has been tortured, stripped and mistreated in prison.
[By contrast, Saadedin Ibrahim stated that he was well treated in
prison.]
The second leading Egyptian dissident is Ahmed Abdel Sattar who is
being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York on frivolous
charges.
When will CNN stop pretending that those who do not agree with its
peceptions do not exist.
Sincerely
Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
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