Rules of the game
By: Asim Qureshi.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231701242
Subjects: Terrorism -- Prevention; Terrorism -- Political aspects; Terrorism -- Government policy; Globalization and terrorism; Muslims -- Civil rights; Muslims -- Crimes against
Description: "Following the 2005 bombing of London's transportation infrastructure, Tony Blair declared that "the rules of the game have changed." Few anticipated the extent to which global counterterrorism would circumvent cherished laws, but profiling, incommunicado detention, rendition, and torture have become the accepted protocols of national security. In this book, Asim Qureshi travels to East Africa, Sudan, Pakistan, Bosnia, and the United States to record the testimonies of victims caught in counterterrorism's new game. Qureshi's exhaustive efforts reveal the larger phenomenon that has changed the way governments view justice. He focuses on the profiling of Muslims by security services and concurrent mass arrests, detaining individuals without filing charges, domestic detention policies in North America, and the effect of Guantánamo on global perceptions of law and imprisonment."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Muslim; title: Guilty; title: The rule of law; title: Foreign exchange; title: Guantanamo bay; title: Darkness; title: Torture and abuse; title: Security.