Towards the end of 2011, the Fifth Circuit judicial panel released a highly anticipated opinion affirming the convictions against the five organizers of the former Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation on charges that they conspired to funnel money to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Those who know, love or support them cannot help but feel incredibly sad. We hoped for the vindication they all deserve.
Ghassan Elashi has been a man of endurance. In spite of his history and his innocence, he is a man of calm. He is a man of faith. This makes him unlike many other men convicted unjustly. The problem for men of even the strongest faith, are the families who will simply miss those who have loved them a little bit longer. We must asked Allah that they be entrusted to his care and that He rewards Shukri Abu Baker, Mufid Abdulqader, Abdulrahman Odeh, Mohammad El-Mezain for the good deeds that have been misrepresented and labeled as crimes.
Many of us still cannot believe that a gentle and benevolent man like Shukri should have to lived in a perpetual nightmare where everything he has known, loved, touched or hope to be, has been ruined and disfigured by injustice, prejudice and political deception. These are our brothers who refused to ignore the refugee camps filled with starving children, hopeless men and weeping women made homeless by missiles or the crippled children in the hospitals in Gaza. These are five men who tried to make the lives of innocent civilians, a little easier as they continue to be force
to live within a political quarantine
What the judges have ruled today, will be remedied one day. Our brothers will be compensated in this life and the one to come. For now, they are committed to keeping the faith, the least we can do is keep them in our dua.
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