Does anyone remember the Dr. Afia Siddiqui case? Surely not many do but is it something to be forgotten? You could very well be the next Afia Siddiqui. This must have caught your attention? Dr. Afia was convicted of being a Muslim terrorist and has been sentenced to 86 years in prison. There were 83 different charges, but she was indicted on just one.
According to the sources of the US government she has been accused being a terrorist who was abducted from Pakistan and taken to Kabul where she was arrested for carrying handwritten notes and a computer thumb drive that contained recipes for conventional bombs and weapons of mass destruction, instructions on how to construct machines to shoot down the US drones, descriptions of New York City landmarks with references to a mass casualty attack, and two pounds of sodium cyanide in a glass jar.
The question is, why was she abducted from Pakistan and taken to Afghanistan if she is a US citizen? Shouldn’t she have been sent back to the States and the matter handled by the forces there?
Other sources state that she was arrested for pointing a gun at a US soldier when he tried to beat her. Which would be considered self defense wouldn’t it? She was arrested with 3 of her children. If Afia Siddiqi was at fault why is it that her children were made a part of the crime? Why were they taken into custody as well?
The question here is not who is telling the truth and who is lying. What we are trying to establish is if pointing the gun at someone is a bigger crime than actually murdering someone? Because on the one side is her sentence, and on the other is Conrad Murray was the doctor who has been held responsible and charged with involuntary manslaughter of the Pop legend Michael Jackson. He has been sentenced to 4 years in prison which is the maximum punishment for such a crime.
Now if we were to compare both the scenarios Conrad Murray who was responsible for the killing the pop star Michael Jackson and was sentenced to only 4 years in prison while Dr. Afia Siddiqui who killed no one yet is serving an 86 year jail term. She is being kept in the most inhuman conditions and is the victim of police brutality. Is it fair? Is this how American government does justice?
You have to make the judgment call. Do you think Dr. Afia is innocent or guilty? Do you think she deserves the brutal treatment? Is an 86 year prison sentence fair when Conrad Murray gets only a 4 year sentence for killing the most famous pop star in all of America? What do you think of America’s justice system?
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