Dear Americans. Dear people of conscience. I know how you feel. Perhaps as helpless as children, not yet swimmers, witnessing a sea of our fellow humans drowning. But we must not be silent. The voiceless people of Gaza desperately need our help. To tell their painful stories. To condemn Israel's...

Today, a cloud of déjà vu is hovering over a federal courthouse in downtown Dallas, Texas. Prosecutors will begin retrying my father and four other associates of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), which was the largest American Muslim charity until the Bush administration shut it down in December 2001.

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