What This Court Case Really Signified. Do We Have the Right to Exist? By Janet C. Phelan
Every now and then, there is a blip on the political radar so vast and significant that our attention freezes on it. Some of these blips require some sort of explanation—and some of the official explanations—like for the Kennedy and King assassinations of the sixties, like for the events of September 11—produce an entire subculture involved in shredding the official explanations. Others, however, do not generate Warren Reports, etc. because there is simply no explanation possible. While these events may indeed get some media coverage, they are generally relegated to positions “below the fold” and little explanation or commentary is given. In the spirit of further examining one such event, which spanned a number of years but wound its way to a legal—that is, an “official”—conclusion in 2021, this article will attempt to further highlight the significance of a court case involving Bilal Abdul Kareem. If your gut response to his name is to think that he is some Middle Eastern goatherd or a Gitmo detainee, you should know right off the bat that Kareem is US born and bred. He was born in New York—his birth name was Darrell… Read More