A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization called on the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to end the "forced exile" of a Muslim citizen who was recently detained by Mexican authorities and allegedly questioned about his faith, apparently at the behest of the FBI.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Raymond Earl Knaeble IV, a 29-year-old California-born convert to Islam, has been stranded in Colombia since March after being placed on a no-fly list for unknown reasons. His ordeal, and that of other American Muslims denied re-entry to the US, was detailed last month by the Washington Post. (Knaeble was in Colombia to visit relatives.) More...
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