What is terrorism?

Aafia Siddiqui is not a Terrorist
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The case involving the incarceration of Aafia Siddiqui remains murky. Siddiqui is not a terrorist but a victim of religious persecution. The US government is very keen to protect its citizens in every part of the world, but some of their interventions can be torturous. Thousands of Muslims residing in Pakistan and Afghanistan were abducted, detained and tortured in the quest to unearth the mastermind of the 9/11 attack (Zakaria, 2015). The US government falsified evidence that was used to sentence Siddiqui to 86 years’ imprisonment.
Following the 9/11 attack, the US intelligence bodies in conjunction with the Pakistan special forces launched a worldwide search for terrorists. After her abduction in Karachi, Siddiqui disappeared only to resurface five years later (Zakaria, 2015). At first, the US had denied claims that they were holding Siddiqui captive for the five years that she went missing. After Siddiqui resurfaced, the US government convicted her for abetting terrorism. It is alleged that Siddiqui married a nephew of the mastermind behind the 9/11 (Davis, 2006). However, Siddiqui was undergoing through a state of psychological turmoil following the birth of her third born child and a break up with her husband. The marriage seems made up considering that family members denied claims of such a union.
Siddiqui has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the MIT. She could have been an invaluable ass…